Plan Now for Tarpon

One more month till the tarpon start showing up!  Everglades fishing for tarpon is unique for this Everglades fishing guide in that I hunt for them in the most remote part of the Park.  Once I locate them I put down the troll motor and start plug casting for them.  Most Everglades tarpon here are sight casted.  Everglades tarpon start showing up when those cold fronts stall out in North Florida and our waters start warming up.  If tarpon are your game better call and get the best tides for them.  This Everglades fishing charters has some dates open for the best tides but not for long. 

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Redfish Again

Here we go again.  Everglades fishing at its finest.  More Everglades redfish.  Mike and friends landed a few redfish up to 28 inches.  They got their limit but it was a tough day.  This Everglades fishing charter earned its pay today with 25 knot winds.  We could not cover the grounds I wanted to because of the wind but we managed to catch quite a few trout along with the redfish.  Snook were a little scarce today. 

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Trout are In

Now is the time to get your trout.  Saturday was a big trout day with limits of trout.  Calm seas and favorable temperatures made for a nice day for Everglades fishing.  These trout were caught from the flats off of Highlands Beach all the way to the flats just north of Pavilion Key.  Red headed gray Rip Tide jigs did the trick for me but most jigs will work.  As an Everglades City fishing guide I can't reveal my secrets but for trout there really were no secrets on Saturday.  Everybody caught trout.  One more month before you can keep an Everglades snook. 

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Jim Scores with a Big December Red

Jim Basara and company were fishing with me this December 27th in the Everglades and caught this very respectable Rogers River redfish.   The fish measured nearly 30 inches and weighed about 10 pounds.  Very fat for a winter redfish.  Jim caught this on cut ladyfish using a spinner loaded with 12 lb line.  We caught several more redfish closer to Everglades City that were approaching the upper limit of 27 inches but most were released.  However, Jim and company went home with a very nice bag limit.

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Great November Days

Well, no time to sit down and write my fishing reports.  Too busy fishing!  Tom and friends got these in the Everglades near Lostmans River.  The largest snook were caught on Storm Swim Shads in about 4 feet of water.  The snook made a dash for the motor but Tom saved the day by dipping his rod in the water to push the line away from the boat.

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Charlie and Ron's Reds

Another good day for redfish fishing.  Charlie and Ron from Naples scored with two beautiful 24 inch redfish.  Both were caught on cut mullet on a jig with a popping cork.  Not much traffic out there but, that is the way it is in the Everglades.  Hardly any boat traffic.  Three boats makes for a traffic jam.   We spent much of the day enjoying the beauty of the backcountry of the Everglades in the back bays and winding rivers.  There sure were a lot of gators in my honey holes. 

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Some More Redfish

 

We fished hard today and redfish was the fish of the day.  It's that time of the year when redfish storm the Everglades in size and numbers.  Joe, JJ, and Warren from Charlotte limited out on large redfish.  The two redfish in the photos measured 27 inches and 28 inches.   One was caught on a shrimp and the other on a piece of cut mullet.  All of our keeper reds measured between 25 and 27 inches.  Several more keepers were caught and released.

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