Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

Tom Hartman and I left the dock well before dawn this morning so we could reach those southern red’s at daylight. We caught the falling tide and morning offshore wind just right and had a great morning sight shooting red’s on fly. We saw a lot of fish,  some of them were in schools of a half dozen or more and some of those were in the 30″ class. Extremely low tides at noon required some dicey navigation but we managed to stay on the fish all day. Lots of clear water, breezy weather, scudding clouds, diving osprey, jumping leopard rays, porpoise and manatee. There is an interesting tide this week with high water at dawn slowly ebbing to a 0.2 low almost nine hours later. With a little cooperation from the weather this could be ideal for fly fishing and sight fishing in general.