Pete’s Slam

Local angler,Peter Kocur joined me for a day in the Glades and redfish was on our minds. He worked topwaters all over schools of mullet and was rewarded with lots of big redfish and a few nice snook. They were out in full force today blowing up his topwater plug almost every cast. We later…

Everglades Redfish

The last few trips we have pushed the Maverick HPX to the limit, fishing from outfront of Flamingo to up north near the Broad River. When the wind isn’t howling, we were able to get out on the flats and take advantage of some very good fishing. Recently it has been blowing pretty good but…

Baby Tarpon

It was been extremely windy this past week, which is not normal for July in South Florida. We have mostly fished the backcountry to get hide from the relentless wind. There has been a lot of baby tarpon around and they have been eating everything from plugs to flies… Antabuse blocks an enzyme that is…

Summertime in the Glades

Summer time fishing in Flamingo definitely forces you bring bug spray for the ramp in the morning, but if your able to get through that, there are plenty of redfish tailing up on the flats, along with snook and tarpon swimming along the coast. Some of the best fishing takes place in the Glades this…

Flamingo Snook

I I was down in Flamingo with photographer/author Jan Maizler and Alan Williams this weekend. The plan was to sight fish up on the flats. First thing in the morning, we ran into a school of about 200 tailing over slot redfish. Jan made a great cast to the front of the school and immediately…