Southwest Florida Fishing Reports

Fished 4 days last week with Big John King. These are a few of the highlights of last week. Even with the cold weather  we found snook and redfish that were happy to eat. The water was so clear we could see fish 100 ft down the shoreline. It is really fun when it get like that. Started each day around 8:30 am to let the sun warm the water and it paid off.  Looking forward to fishing with some great clients and friends later this week. Just be ready Adam Taylor and company to have a blast..It looks like the warming trend is set for later this week. Perfect!!!

It is cold for us south Florida folks today!! Might get in the 30’s tonight. Wow and only December. We were catching tarpon last year at this time.  Must be Global Warming.. HAHA!!

Another nice redfish sightfished in the shallows

Another nice snook caught in 6" of water last week

Backcountry photo

Southwest Florida has been fantastic over the month of October with lots of 15+ snook days. Lots of exploring followed by some great action when we find them. One of the most fascinating experiences of the last month was seeing over 1000 tarpon in one bay and all of them were only 10-15″ long and all rolling like their big bros. From Estero Bay down to the Everglades the snook fishing has been great with some redfish and baby tarpon on occasion.I still have a few days left in November and December up until Christmas. Last year we had a few days before Christmas when we hook and landed some big tarpon on fly laidup and moving threw. It just needs to stay warm. STAY WARM!!!

Redfish on a jerkbait

New Freestone Tibor on the 8Wt Sage

Some Tarpon will be around up until Christmas if the weather stays warm

Big redfish sightfished in 6" of water

Mrs. Brown started the day with this monster Redfish in the Everglades before finishing up with 5 or 6 other nice redfish and snook. It was a Great day getting ready for the Big Redsnook tournament that weekend. She was one of the  best flyfishing gals every on my skiff.  She has a world record on fly for a permit she caught. Wow!! Look forward to more fishing stories soon.

August has been a fantastic month for tarpon and hope to keep it rolling into September.

August in a nutshell

Jumper

Great month! Snook fishing has been off but the redfishing has been really solid. I have a few days in Sept. during the middle of the month so get in the books and get in the action.

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Redfish love flies!!!!

Adam’s First Tarpon on fly and what a great fight!!! Great job!

Lets do it again soon!!

Wayne and Walt fished the Everglades with me for four days last week and caught lots of snook, trout, and a few redfish on fly. We really had some great mornings fishing for tarpon and this is one we got to the boat..Great job Wayne on your first tarpon everglades style!!!

This has been typical of the last couple of months and will continue all through the summer.. Leaving around 6:00am and getting back to the dock around 2:00pm. I will try to post some more photos and I have a lot but they don’t have the correct format for this web-site. Just be patient!!!

On another important note. Please make your plans to fish southwest Florida because the oil from the spill will never reach our shores. The loop current and the southeast winds will keep the oil hundreds of miles from our shores.

April is half over and the tarpon have been here for a few weeks now.. We have hooked some monster tarpon and broke hooks and line over the last couple of weeks. Landing a few! We hooked a 20lb snook and landed one about 36″in the last few weeks.  We are still seeing some monster snook when we are looking for them. The redfishing is solid and caught a few 25” fish sightfishing in inches of water.. But still everyone wants a few shots at laid up and rolling tarpon. It seems as though it is March!! The water temperature and the patterns are the same as last March.. Must have been the cooler than normal temperatures this past winter!!!

March Madness

It is starting to warm up and the fish are showing up in good numbers. Wally had a 30-32″  snook eat his fly and the hook popped out but this redfish ate the second fly we presented in 6″ of clear water way in the Backcountry. 10 minutes later we had this amazing 15lb 36″ redfish in the boat. The biggest Backcountry redfish I have ever seen period… We saw another come down the bank even bigger.. After a slow start in the morning things really heated in the afternoonas they typically do when we have a cool night.