CyberAngler

We will be fishing out of Flamingo the end of this month. We also plan to fish from shore around the lodge in late afternoon and in the marina at night. Any suggestions for what to fish around the lodge and in the Marina at night? Also, seeing the limited consumption mercury warnings in this months Florida Sportsman, what are your opinions on eating trout from Florida Bay or reds from the backcountry?

First, welcome to our Forum

The first tarpon I ever caught on fly was taken on the backcountry dock at flamingo using a white deceiver and an 8 weight. Although I haven’t fished it lately, the backcountry dock was ALWAYS good for baby tarpon near dusk. Just watch out for the gators

The outside dock and marina are loaded with big snook. I recommend live bait or shrimp tipped jigs. The rocks around the mouth of the marina are a good place to try.

Make sure you come back and let us know how you did...

jrcg8tor you may want to check the regs for the park I don't think you are allowed to fish from the ramps anymore. You may also want to re-consider fishing at night unless you have plenty of blood to donate to mother nature

Thanks for the help. Feel like a kid two weeks before Christmas.

Snooks2005, we use a thermacell, which is a little butane device that the turkey hunters here in NE Florida sware by. We fished one night last year at the end of May and the thermacell worked great. I don't know how it works, all I know is that you turn it on and about 5 minutes later the mosquitos are gone.

I am very familiar with thermacell we use it all the time down here when night fishing in the passes, the stuff works great. Make sure you bring plenty of butane with you because the last time I stopped by one of the local Kmart's they were out of the butane which was about a week ago and they didn't know when they were getting another shipment.

Good luck

snooks2005 wrote:jrcg8tor you may want to check the regs for the park I don't think you are allowed to fish from the ramps anymore...

Oops

I guess you can tell I haven't been to Flamingo in a while.

Snooks25- Went to the fishing section of the Everglades web-site. Did not see any thing about the ramps, but I don't know how often they update the web-site. Do you know what they consider to be the ramps?
Also, do you know if they still allow you to fish from the docks in the marina after sundown.

Will bring a big supply of butane. The stores up here have trouble keeping refills in stock too. I have recently seen them in Walgreens for the first time.

Really looking forward to getting back down to that part of the state again.

If I am not mistaken they consider any place where you launch you boat from to be the ramp area.

I am not sure if they allow you to fish from the docks in the marina after sundown, but the best bet would be to ask the ranger on duty at the front gate once you arrive to the park.