Flamingo backcountry report, 5 November
Capt. Bob LeMay
November 5, 2013
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Only had one booking this past week with a single angler, Jacob Vitellaro, visiting from the Titusville area. We were lucky enough to get on the water just before the recent cold front high winds and it was a great day.... In the morning things were a bit slow on the incoming tide. We caught and released a variety of fish on light spinning gear with lures but they were mostly small. The weather was still unsettled enough that the great clouds of bait I was used to finding in recent weeks simply weren't around at all... Just before noon we made a shift in tactics, leaving the areas we'd been working and running a few miles north just before the high tide. Our first task was to load the well with the only bait we found - some very nice sized pilchards and small herring along a shoreline - then shifted our tactics entirely to live chumming and working those same baits on troll-rite style rigs underneath where our chummers were getting worked over. What a difference that shift made... I'll let the pics tell most of the story....
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these are the smallest of the reds Jack caught and released that day - I quit counting when we were nearing a dozen of them - all on frisky whitebaits using 1/4oz leadheads on 10lb line. The biggest reds were right at the upper slot limit... and all of them were caught in just two places....
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Along the way every now and then a small snook joined the party and we ended up releasing a half dozen of them as well.
By the time came for the long run back towards Flamingo, Jack had his first backcountry slam releasing snook, redfish, and speckled trout. In fact it was a double slam - but who's counting?
Hoping to add a tarpon to give us a grand slam we made one last attempt near the marina at Flamingo but all we could do is add one more snook to the total - and it was the biggest of the day... It did seem a bit strange to be releasing big snook near the dock but Jack wasn't complaining....
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That afternoon was just perfect... the good news is that the weather for this upcoming weekend will finally lay down and be pretty good as well. At the end of the day we also found a few crocodiles just before docking. Here's a picture of the smallest one.....
If I didn't know better you'd think he was posing for the camera....
Tight lines
Bob LeMay
(954) 435-5666
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