Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

Snook are on the prowl. This is one of the best times of year to catch that thirty inch snook, on fly. They are growing fast, feeding well and chunking up for the winter. We caught eleven snook today, fishing a jig on the after deck and a fly rod on the fore. We passed up chances at smaller snook throughout the day. All caught poling in the shallowest water we could find. We even went sight fishing for permit on one of the sand flats (we got one last week) except the only permit we saw turned out to be a blowfish. Lizardfish, blue crab, catfish, stick and boot, all on fly. Lots of sunshine, turtles, porpoises, bull sharks of dangerous proportions,  manatees, hawks chasing plovers, alligators attacking the endless strings of mullet. Don’t eat the fried mullet gizzards.