Beautiful weather although it’s hot out there at midday. It’s calm, the tide is high just after noon and it’s flooding with the full moon. There’s snook on the prowl. We had action all day today thanks to the big push of cool water from the moontide. Whitebaits, glass minows, and finger mullet were all getting balled up and hammered by the fish. Will Campbell on the foredeck with a seven weight fly rod, gettin’ it done, Everglades Style. Here’s Will in the photo at right with just one of the many snook he caught today. Here’s a few more. We’re looking for a sponsorship from Martin Reels. Note the classic, Tranquil Sea, in the background. At the Cicle K there are rumors of redfish beginning to show in schools on the outside.
It’s Summer in the Jungle, and one of our favorite things to do is hunt baby tarpon with fly rods. Here’s Dr. Dan Newman with one of five “juvenile tarpon” he caught and released this morning on a half day trip to the Black Lagoon. I’m looking at some New Spots for small tarpon like this, jungle tarpon, if you don’t mind the ride down south. There’s no-one around, the weather is stabilizing slowly and the fishing should just get better. I’ll be watching for Giants on Three Sisters and a few other summertime tarpon haunts. The snook fishing was hot just before this last front came in, and now that it’s moving through we can look for some improvement. A little steady weather and a sea breeze in the morning could mean excellent snook fishing in the days ahead. Let’s keep a weather eye on the Giants and the Three Sisters. (I’m starting to think about those reds in September and October, too. Those balmy days on the beaches down south, November, even, on Highland Point and Lostman’s River.)
Stripers were in all the right places. My brother and I caught well over a hundred of them in five days fishing and at least half of those were visible in shallow, crystal clear water over white sand. They would work along the shelf edges in packs, sometimes a half dozen at a time and sometimes fifty, you could see them roving in gangs. Most of the others came from a rip crossing a rocky headland in Chatam. Here’s a picture of one from the rip.