Flamingo report, 11 June 2013

Capt. Bob LeMay
June 11, 2013
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report

In the past two weeks the fishing along the Gulf coast from the Shark River northward to Lostmans has been good and getting better every day. Along with snook, redfish, trout, and small tarpon we're seeing lots of wildlife everywhere we're poling, including small to medium sized sawfish up shallow with the reds and sea turtles in every size from full grown all the way down to babies only six inches long.... In recent days the snook fishing has been overtaking everything else and we've been catchng and releasing them up to fourteen pounds. The small tarpon are finally making a good showing in the Shark river drainage and we released two in the 15 to 25lb range Sunday...

Here's a few of the pics we've taken.. the first pic is a small tripletail on fly - it was sightfished in less than two feet of water....
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Here's a few fish we tangled with during two days on the water...
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this spanish mackeral at dawn made for a pretty good start
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The weather wasn't exactly the best for quite a few days - but that didn't seem to slow down the fish...
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this nice snook weighed right at 14lbs, she was carefully released to fight another day...

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on our second day it was a father and son team with Rod Grebe hosting his Dad...

Next it was local angler William Brewer with his wife and father in law and we had a time...with snook, tarpon and everything else biting....

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After a few blanks William hit this nice slot snook on a small jig. At our next spot we found a bunch of small tarpon and managed to catch and release two of them on lures....

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this was Lindsey's first tarpon and it took another of those small jigs... Her Dad got one as well...
Not too far away Lindsey's Dad, Jim McGaughan, got his very first snook on -it weighed in at 12lbs...
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The big girls are hungry now wherever you find them....

We finished up the week on Sunday with local anglers Marcos Beaton and his brother with more snook as well as a red and lots of trout...
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All summer long the weather will get worse (if that's possible) and the fishing will get better...
Tight Lines
Bob LeMay
(954) 435-5666

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