For sometime I have not have the time to fish for snook or post a story on the best fly fishing site on the web.. We all get caught up in the real world of work and no play and I am no different. Tonight I took out me olde trusty 8 wt and gave the Snook a try. Lights camera and no action!! Snook 30 + were all over the lights but with the growth of SW Florida casting was difficult. Boats, floating lifts and new docks in my favorite spots made this night close to impossible. Then it hit me! Back up shorten the leader cast under the boats and let the fly do the work. Second cast produced a nice 30+ Snook with a school of jacks following Wow. I was able to land this beauty snook but the action stopped like someone turned out the lights. 9 or 10 casts later the big boy snook showed up. Again I cast my micro minnow and bam off the snook goes only this time this Snook went to Harvard school of escape, straight out jumping, ripping line. I thought I had the snook when he turned under the dock only to cut the 50 lb tippet to shreds on one of the new pilings… Oh well this fish will remember me for a wile trailing my micro and 18” of tippet… As the night went on I manager to land several of his brothers and few of his relatives. Tomorrow will be another night. Joey the fly fishing snook marvel will be here so I’ll have a boat partner so stay tuned for some more Snook action!! See ya on the back water
Joe-m

Hi Joe,

Thanks for thr report. It's fun to out smart them and perservere. I've also been jammed with work etc. Saw that you stopped in. Thanks.

Mark Ward
Everglades Angler