Everglades report, 9-19 March 2012
With only three days of anglers fishing fly, you'll just have to sort through this a bit...
Most guides are very busy now everywhere in south Florida and the Keys and I'm no exception. Even |
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Everglades backcountry, 28 February 2012
I was on the road almost continuously this past week, logging four days at Flamingo and two at Everglades City (and in the process clocking 1500 miles on my trailer). Fishing is good now and at times |
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Everglades days - Biscayne nights, 7 Feb
Local angler Brad Golub teamed up with visiting angler Vince Williams from Maryland to fish with me this past week with a day in the 'Glades and last night in Biscayne Bay. We had pretty good act |
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Flamingo Christmas, 29 December
While everyone else is out shopping, lots of guides are on the water almost daily with anglers. All of my trips in the past week or so have been out of Flamingo so this report will just cover the hig |
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Flamingo, fly & spin, 16 November
It's been a few weeks now since I've had fly anglers aboard, finally a day of fly fishing in this report, y'all are welcome to ignore the spinning part....
Another week with only two book |
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spray on attractant
I've never used scent with flies (although there have been occasions when I was tempted..). I do know one or two bonefish guys who have kept a fly in with a small bag of cut up shrimp and have us |
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Everglades action, 20 Sept
On the water out of Flamingo three of the last five days, mostly fly fishing... The pics will tell most of the story and, as expected, things are certainly heating up along the Gulf coast of the ' |
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Snookin' the Lights 6-2 to 6-5-2011
I just returned from a snook fishing trip to Southeast Florida with a couple of good buddies over the weekend. The trip was an absolute success. Tim, Dave and I met up Thursday evening on the way down |
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New Fly Fishing Forum
Everything's biting in Everglades National Park (yesterday it was tarpon, snook, speckled trout, redfish, grouper, snapper, ladyfish, jacks, mackeral, and sharks.... I won't count the one &quo |
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Barracuda Fly
That's another trick we call the "bait and switch" that works really well on big fish over shallow wrecks.... You tease the fish with a very active baitfish and keep taking it away (snat |
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Todays Most Unusual Catch...
We caught more fish than we could count...And one potential fly fishing line class record Plenty of grouper fish sticksThe usual suspectsAnd then it happened... A kiss and appology and off she g |
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Fly Fishing Maldives
March Year 2007, my 1st trip to Maldives with all Fly Fishermen... out of 12 person... I'm the only guy who don't do fly fishing, during that trip... I was expose to how fun and challenge salt |
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A day on the bay
It started out looking like this...It did some of these...May be a line class record Choffer The Money Maker cought three little grouper fishsticksAt days end...Rest in peace |
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Peacock Bass in SoFlo
That is weird... I was there then, and I don't remember the stories about fish kills. Guess I just forgot. I remember the summer kills clearly enough. And I've seen the dead fish from those ki |
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Cuba
anyone read Old Man and the Sea? I also would think there is likely a good amount of bonefish and grouper there.... so crabs and MOE shrimps for the bonefish, gartside soft hackle streamers and d |
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Albies in Avon by the Sea
Hit the salt yesterday predawn to try to get the last of the NJ Albies as their heading north. Caught two and lost another. It really is amazing how these guys fight. You should feel what a fish fi |
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Returning to the art.
Would like to take a moment to introduce myself before diving into the forum. I started fly tying/fishing about 25 years ago while stationed (US Navy) in Washington state. I found it fun and very ente |
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anyone ever build a fly rod out of another blank?
i was thinking of building a fly rod on a seeker blank for sharks down south. every once in a while we come across some big sharks while targeting bottom fish off the coast of Ga. i want to build a |
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Rating Fly Database Patterns
i would say no to ratings. are you rating the fly or really the tyer?? obviously the newbie tyer is gonna get the lowest rating and that may discourage them from submitting more patterns.you could wor |
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Bahamas gear needs? (Andros, bonefish)
It occurred to me that I never posted an update post trip, so here it is!!Okay, so I flew out of Chicago, which about an hour drive for me. Left Sunday morning at 7 AM or so, and landed in Na |
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Spanish Fish Salad
i can see this with big chunks of snapper or grouper too, ummmmmmmmmhummmm, light bulb above buds head begins glowing really bright, having one of those creative moments and thinks, alligator tai |
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Electric Chicken Clouser
That's a good fly to use over here in the panhandle. I caught some baby grouper on that fly last year. |
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DEER HEAD MARABOU (PIKE)
Very nice design and another who's going to give that a shot. Nice clear pictures too for this old guy. Bump for you.So you asked for links to free picture hosts them so I thought I'd post my |
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HUGE order.......
Kieth, here's what we ordered.Aberdeen: all sizesOctopus Circle: Barbed and barbless, all sizes, all colorsWalleye and Steelhead Assortment: all sizes and colorsBig River Bait: NS Black 10/0 and 1 |
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Thresher Shark steaks
QUOTE(madkasel @ Jul 23 2007, 09:20 PM) [snapback]247633[/snapback]Sounds good!My most excellent grilling book says that any and all fish should be cooked on a hot grill for 10 minutes pe |
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saltwater swap
anything that bites no really, i'm really after shark, snook, tarpon, and bonefish down there. we're down there for 2 weeks every year, and i spend the first 2 days out on the backwater flats |
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flies for the big ones :)
Hi everyone as always a lot of questions, i´m going to Roatan in Honduras in March and are going to try catch the really big fishes on the flyrod. Any one who have good patterns for cubera, grouper an |
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Hey all you salties
I don't know where all you boys are from and all but my wife just hit me up about our five year anniversary. She said she wants to go on a fishing trip to the keys area for some bones, permit, may |
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Gearing up for the Salt!
Good Day, Verno, those are based on a pattern I saw in a magazine several years ago. They are kind of like a thin spoon fly. They wobble slightlly as they drop through the water column. Simple fl |
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fillet knife question
My brother neighbor is from the Seychelles (sp). Islands in the pacific Or maybe Indian IM not sure really. any way this guy is the best dam, most instinctive fisherman I have ever met!!!& |
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Questions about saltwater flyfishing
I have not been to Venezuela but have been to Costa Rica and while inshore fishing there, we caught plenty of Jacks, Roosterfish, Dorado, Grouper, Tarpon, etc. Some of the big Jacks and Roosters were |
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Anyone fished in Puerto Vallarta?
While I can't help you with a guide, I can give you some guidance!There is excellent largemouth bass fishing in some of the rivers and reserviors in the mountains around Puerto Vallarta. If y |
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What have you caught on the fly rod
Am from the the other tropical side of the globe. Species varies alittle. Nevertheless, they are still fun to pursue on the fly rod. Freshwater:CarpKeli aka Local CatfishPeacock Bass (Butterfly)Ma |
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Pattern/latin reference
QUOTE (TroutBum @ Jun 1 2004, 09:26 AM) BCD,I do fish for Tarpon, but without a boat I only do it a few days a year. Most of the time I'm fishing for Snook, Redfish and whatever else swims by. |
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Back in Singapore waters here....
Hi folks, In fact, back in our waters, within my forum's setting. We are currently fishing battling hot over a species driven competition.Here's some selected updates, just for you folks. |
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Fly Fishing in Singapore.
Hi, A very good day all of you, folks! I am from Singapore, a tiny little island within South East Asia. Due to much reclaimation & limited space & area for fly fishing, the fishing he |
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FNG coming aboard
Last trip out, nothing. The reds were tailing but not biting what I was throwing. The water in my area is very warm right now. Trip before last, one not quite legal spec and a juvenile gag grouper |
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