While most of the snook caught this past two weeks have been small, schools of larger linesiders can be found.SOUTH FLORIDA SPORT FISHING REPORT
Flamingo, Biscayne Bay and Florida BayDecember 10th, 2007
Snook fishing has been the ticket in Florida bay with redfish in the mix as well as a couple of smaller tarpon here and there. The past two weeks catches included a 35lb tarpon and a slew of smallish snook caught in the some of the backcountry creeks and ponds. We did however jump a bunch of tarpon in the 50+ lb range in larger creeks on topwater lures. Tim Slawson along with his two sons, Jeff and Chris, combined to catch over 20 redfish – the largest at 12 lbs – on live pilchards fished around structure in moving water. Snook fishing has been good as always this time of year, but most of the snook are a little smaller than normal. On less windy days we are finding a lot of small schools of much larger snook – 8 to 15 fish in a pod swimming on the flats. Most of these fish are over 10 lbs! This last weekend we landed a 24 lb linesider on the flats with 8 more over 10 lbs. All of these fish were caught sight-fishing with artifical lures.. and you have no idea how many snook we saw like that!!! I have had a couple days when the fishing wasn’t that great – like days when a cold front passes over first thing in the morning, shutting everything down – but for the most part, the fishing has been very good. I expect the same scenarios to continue for the time being. If the weather stays warm, the fishing will get even better! Until next time, TIGHT LINES!
