Everglades days, Biscayne nights -first two weeks in April
Capt. Bob LeMay
April 18, 2013
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
I've been almost too busy this month - but the cold fronts of March have left us and the fish are starting to feed... I'll let the pics do most of the story here. We've been on the water late at night locally in Biscayne Bay and in the Everglades during the daytime out of both Flamingo and Everglades City...
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Serious local angler Neil Franklin finally took up the fly rod and here is one of his first nice speckled trout.. Whitewater Bay has been loaded with them...
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Visiting from England Ant Leake's two small boys had a ball with trout and other inshore species (the one shown measured at 21"...). A few hours later Ant was hooked up solid on a hot 80lb blacktip that almost spooled the 20lb gear we had him using. After a long fight the fish was at the boat and very carefully un-hooked and released. Later that day young Jake was again hooked up - this time with a blacktip almost as large as his Dad's... He needed lots of help but did fight the fish all the way to the boat....
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Father and son local anglers David Hughes and his son Charlie went after the tarpon holding in a small 'Glades river. David struck out with his fly rod but Charlie didn't miss with a live bait. This isn't their first time out, either. Great catch for Charlie...
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Several days later we were on the water late at night locally and jumped at least ten fish. Martin Bowers got his first tarpon on fly that night. All those other tarpon just took us to school that night (the way some of them fought you'd swear they've been hanging out with snook...).
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Visitors Mike Scott and Jim Rowley spent a couple of days in the 'glades with me and Jim got his first tarpon and a small goliath grouper. Both wanted tarpon on fly and we did jump a few -but they woudn't stay attached.. We did catch lots of different fish on fly including Mike's snook, taken on a Whitewater Clouser
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My last day on the water was with two boats (anglers from North Florida). It was great fun to hand a big fly rod to another boat and then be a spectator.... Nothing like a big tarpon in a small river....
By the way we're seeing lots of very nice snook and redfish along shallow Gulf shorelines over in the Ten Thousand Islands area recently. My angler from Rhode Island got a double slam of snook, redfish, and speckled trout...
Tight lines
Bob LeMay
(954) 435-5666
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