Got out into the islamorada backcountry fishing yesterday with Adam, Ken, and Dan. They were down from South Florida for a little fishing. Weather was nice it was a little breezy during the morning but laid out nice in the afternoon. Water was in the high 60s in the morning and maybe 70 by later in the day. We fished in the everglades creeks and canals in the morning. Water was high with the last of the incoming tide. We caught a nice triple header red and black drum right off the bat, and a few more singles. But after that tons of ladyfish and jacks swarmed us. We picked away at the drums the next couple hours, also got some nice snappers, a few big trout, and even a couple pompano. A good november florida keys fishing bite. It was good various action! Probably ended up with a bakers dozen on red and black drum. Fished a few more spots back there without much luck, did lose what we thought was a nice snook. The tide was now falling hard. After that we headed to the gulf and we picked a nice cobia off of a wreck straight away, about a 15 lber. We then found a nice tripletail that we hooked but unfortunately pulled the hook on him boatside. We hit a few other areas of structure without much luck aside from jacks and small snappers, and looked for more tripletail but didn’t see much. But we finished up on another wreck and caught about a dozen spanish mackerel to finish the day. All in all a great day of everglades charter fishing.
Since we are more in ‘winter time mode’ the next few months, I’ll be posting more daily reports here and not so much on my tarpon blog (islamoradatarpon.com).
