Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

Ed Mcdonnell and Art Newdell shared the foredeck yesterday. We did a little sight fishing with fly rods for reds at daylight, while the tide was low and falling, we had a few shots, missed a couple of strikes, the tide fell away quickly. Next, we went to the Milky Way Swash, the ‘Grocery Store.’ We used tipped jigs and caught spotted sea trout and sugar trout on every cast. We were pulling in doubles, netting them two at a time until we just didn’t  want any more. Our blood lust being satisfied, we headed for the backcountry to finish our day hunting for a trophy snook. It’s January, winter, snook are hard to find at this time of year and even harder to get them to bite. We used both fly rods and ultralight spinning gear with small jerkbaits. We poled a lot of shorelines, deep in the jungle, without so much as a bite. About to give it up, we hit one more ‘Last Best Place.’ Here’s a photo of Ed with the fish of the day.