Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

Even though the weather has been tough, with nighttime cold temperatures in the fifties and sometimes lower, the redfish have been cooperating. Gulf temperatures are  averaging around sixty degrees, but backcountry temps will reach seventy in the afternoon on a bright sunny day. With the cold morning temps, the fishing has been slow for the first hour or two but when the sun gets high things start happening, the red’s start moving onto the flats to feed and with the tides we’ve had these past few days the sight fishing can be phenomenal. They’re big, too, all the guides are talking about it, how thick these fish are. There’s snook too, lots of small ones, and the chance is always there for a big one although it’s tough to get them to bite at this time of year, still we’ve had chances for them on every trip recently. Capt. Bill and I went on recon to some new areas way down south yesterday, that’s where this beauty came from.