We had Mark Wasserman and his wife Emily out for a full day of backcountry fishing on November 9th. They’ve fished with us before and wanted to run up into the Everglades again, so after catching bait first thing we made the run toward Flamingo. The bait wasn’t super easy to come by that morning, but we got what we needed and pushed on up the bay.
The snook fishing around Flamingo kept us busy most of the morning. We picked away at them for a couple of hours and put together a nice catch, with one really nice snook in the mix, along with a few snappers. We also hooked into a crevalle jack that gave us a good fight tight to the mangroves before we got him up beside the boat. On the way back we stopped out front of Flamingo where we saw some tarpon and gave them a shot, but they weren’t interested in eating. We picked up a few more snook at a couple of stops on the way home and finished up along the shoreline with a couple more. All told we ended up with about a dozen snook on the day, plus the jack and the snappers. The weather cooperated nicely too, with light east to southeast winds and the bay running smooth to a light chop.
Thanks again to Mark and Emily for fishing with us — always a pleasure having you both aboard!
Nice snook on light tackle in the backcountry
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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