Fishing Reports by Capt. Bob LeMay

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Fishing this past week has shown steady improvement as the backcountry warmed up after the first really serious cold front of the year (I know it's not much by northern standards but frost on the car window is a bit unusual down here in paradise...). more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - As usual in February the weather runs the show. This past week was no exception, with three cancelled dates because of bad weather, I was only on the water with anglers for three days.... Every day was interesting, although not as productive as I'd more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Fished the second day of snook season last Friday out of Flamingo. The water temps were at 66 or so first thing in the morning and we were fly fishing all day. My anglers were a pair of canoe anglers that fished the outside the day before. The fir more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - The small tarpon are on at night now! Last Saturday night we got after them in poor weather conditions just after dark. Poor weather is shorthand for wind howling out of the east along with the occasional rain shower just to keep you guessing... F more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - The tarpon have finally shown up in good numbers this past two weeks in the interior of the 'Glades, but only a very few anglers have been chasing them. With the mild weather these past two weeks they've shown up in force but wind and rain have made more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Did my first night trip of the winter season late last week. Not fly fishing but all the fish we found would have been perfect, right at the surface where a presentation would have been a snap... We went one for three on tarpon and released a half do more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This past week the fishing was up and down, if the weather was good so was the fishing. My anglers ranged from novice fly fishers to experienced backcountry anglers. Although we had a few tough days when the weather was just howling, when it calmed more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This past week we finally got our first cold front that actually dropped water temperature dramatically. The coldest that I showed on my machine was only 52 degrees running across Whitewater Bay at dawn... which is pretty cold for the interior of t more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - I didn't fish much this past week. The weather was great but the anglers were just scarce... Although it always slows down a bit just before Thanksgiving, things will get going once our snowbirds return... I used the opportunity to do some explori more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This report will cover the last ten days, fishing out of Flamingo and one day out of Everglades City. It's a time of transition now, we've had our first cold front, and the fish are beginning to make the move from outside along the coast back into t more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo