Well, I sit here writing this report hoping very soon that Everglades National Park will re-open. The fishing right before the Government shut down and closed all National Parks, was RED hot! I was out on the water four days last week. They all started with baby tarpon blowing up our baits/flies and going airborne.…
Miami Herald article on fly fishing in the Everglades
Rodrigo and Claudio are in town on business from Brazil. They wanted to sneak away and do some sight fishing in the Everglades. We started the morning with jumping some mini tarpon and catching some nice snook. Here’s Claudio with one of his many snook on the day. Antabuse blocks an enzyme that is involved…
I finally got the opportunity to fish the Herman Lucerne Memorial Fishing Tournament. It’s a unique tournament, which you need to catch 7 species in Everglades National Park. One of the reasons I loved fishing this Tourney is because all the proceeds go right to the Everglades. They have a bunch of divisions which included…
Sue Cocking of the Miami Herald with a Glades snook on fly.
A lot of times I get asked, “What is Inshore Fishing?” Inshore fishing is fishing over shallow waters close to shore. For example, bays, estuaries, and locally, Everglades National Park which is considered a “World-Class Fishery.” Inshore fishing is one of the most exciting ways to catch fish because it’s done in shallow water and…
Tough conditions made fishing up on the flats anything but ideal. We started the morning in a light drizzle with the fly rod, casting at some rolling tarpon. After hooking one, we moved on to some redfish and snook. After a few snook swung and miss, a monster redfish blew up Marcel’s top water plug.…
Night fishing is not what you might think, blindly casting in the darkness around structure. It’s actually done by sight fishing, which in my opinion is the most exciting way to fish. We will fish bridges and dock lights where snook and tarpon are concentrated because they chase baits that are attracted to the light.…
We have been fishing really hard lately and it’s been right outside of Flamingo. We are deffinitely in our late summer pattern of some great sight fishing. Sight fishing on the flats is deffinitely one of may favorite styles of fishing. It can be a challenge if you have never done this before, but an…
Late summer is one of the best times in the Glades to catch a slam. An Everglades slam is a snook, redfish, tarpon, and trout, all caught in one day. The variety of fishing Flamingo this time of the year is the reason it’s my favorite. We have been really hammering the flats out front…