Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

Keith Calhoun and I fished all three days of the Snook Tango. We had lots of encounters with big snook but, alas, although we got ‘em hooked we couldn’t keep ‘em buttoned on. Fog and wind plagued us but we fished from dawn to dusk every day. We found schools of red’s, too, far from shore on the flats during the new moon low, but the wind had the surface so scratched up that we couldn’t see them until we poled over them. Everyone was going aground including us, in the twilight of the dawn about a mile from shore on an uncharted flat. We walked around in the fog discovering all sorts of oceanic creatures that we wouldn’t normally see while we waited on the tide to float us off. We fished ‘out front,’ in the middle and all the way into the ‘waybackcountry,’ we finished on the third day with about thirty snook and one tarpon, I think this was the only tarpon caught all weekend and it was in a new spot for me, we jumped four or five before we landed this one. You can be sure I’ll be keeping an eye on this spot. Thanks to Bill Blanton, Buttonwood Bob, A.T., George Anderson, Peter Babb, Claire and Big Al,  Rick Hirsch and all the rest of you that pitched in for all the fun. Bill and I have been comparing notes on the event and we promise next year will be even better.