Ft. Myers - Offshore

Capt. Rick Featherstone
September 28, 2003
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report

Fall Fly Fishing Begins

Greetings,

The annual bait fall bait migration has started. This week we spent three days fly fishing and had a blast of a time at it. Was it good fly fishing conditions? NO. Was it fun, Ohhh Yeah! My theory is to take what the weather gives you and make something of it. Day our target was permit offshore. Well Mother nature changed our plans with a morning of thunderstorms in the Gulf. Instead we worked New Pass and Big Carlos pass with a variety of flies, deceivers, clousers, inhalers, but by far the most productive was bend back style, with lead along the hook shank, covered with thread. I marked the wing with a felt tip pen so as to imitate a pinfish. We caught a load of snook to twenty inches, jacks that tore up the water up to five pounds, and a redfish all along the shorelines just drifting and at times anchoring. Out in the open water of the pass we enjoyed great action on Spanish mackerel to four pounds. Here on the outgoing tide white clousers brought strikes every time we got into the diving birds. We also ran the beach South and North of Big Hickory passes. No less than a half dozen times we found tarpon either rolling or balling up bait. We managed to jump three in a Big Hurt fly. During that we also caught several big jacks, and a couple of blacktip sharks. During clear weather windows we ran out and hooked a few cudas, and more mackerel, and blue runners as well.

Tight Lines,

Capt. Rick

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