Everglades Fishing – Captain Ned Small

What a great event! Thank you all for all the fun. The fishing was tough, as usual, unless you went to ‘That Place,’ and I think all of us did, at least once.  Captain Waynes fabulous dinner of barbecued chicken, beef tenderloin kebobs, fresh corn on the cob right off the fields of Immokalee, ‘Insane Waynes Bacon and Beans,’ roasted peppers with scallions, potato salad and mushrooms in garlic sauce, the beer, the wine, the scotch and the crown royal, well …that’s about the finest closure of a hard day of winter fly fishing in the Everglades one could ever hope for.

It was around the campfire of Florida lighter pine after dinner though, that swims in my memory, the tales and speculations and some might say downright lies that flew around that fire, that was just inspiring. The sheer density of knowledge of Everglades fly fishing brought to the hearth by both guides and friends was phenomenal, thank you all, I feel priveledged to have been a part of it.

Bill and I are already talking about next year.

Thanks to, Bill, Pete, Rick, Brian, Gary, Stu, Donna, Bob, Farrow, Gus, Dan, Don, Ted, Wayne, Michelle, Leala, and whoever that was that yelled that my front door was open as the raccoons were running up the stairs!