It has been a very rainy season and that is about all you can ask for in the Everglades. Keeping the Everglades hydrated is the most important thing for the entire ecosystem. Keeping the salinity levels down is very important to the grass flats and all of Florida Bay. In the backcountry, the rain keeps the water extremely clear which the snook and redfish like. We saw this last year right after Hurricane Irma. Irma dumped a ton of rain which flushed out the whole backcountry area. The snook fishing thrived because of it. Then this spring, we had some dry periods and with without freshwater regulating the salinity levels, it get really dirty. That makes for very tough fishing.
September is typically a great time to fish in the Everglades. The fishing is as good as it gets all year and you don’t have to worry about anyone else being out there. That has been the case over the last few weeks.
