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 King Of The Night Snook!
Posted by joe-m on January 14, 2005
I’m sitting here wondering should I be home where it is too cold to fish. Should I be in New York where it is too cold. Or should I be in the Keys where it’s too windy. I guess I’ll stay here in Naples and keep fly fishing for the local king of the night. Snook!
This time of year the Snook are all in the back water in the shallow warmer waters. The gulf is only 66 degrees. I find beauties by my dock at night pounding small shrimp and glass minnows. I was fishing with a few of my neighbors last night and the Snook were everywhere. (Storm coming in) The boys were on the front of the docks I was on the sea wall. I am the only fly fisherman here so there is a natural challenge between us. Bait vs. fly. Well fellow fly heads we are in a commanding lead. The boys were chumming w/ live shrimp actually feeding Snook off the dock. After 4 of 5 live
shrimp they would mix a hook in the mix and the Snook would shy away! I think they can see the lines or hook or something just does not look natural. Ok my turn. No chum no bait just me and my new fly…(my wife got me a shrimp fly from beans for Christmas) I cast in to the dark just past the lights the current swinging my fly just under the dock 1 strip and let the games begin. Yes the first fish of the night was a nice Snook. No bait just me the odd man with his trusty fly rod and a digital camera for proof!! I told the boys a good fly fisherman will out fish bait every time. Here is the proof . See ya on the WARM dock Joe-m
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Re: King Of The Night Snook!
by jeremy on January 14, 2005 http://www.ineedasimplesolution.com | | Way to go Joe! Nice fish! Keep em coming - and keep those guys guessing! You ain't missing much up here in Maine - unless you miss Gray Streets - Gray Skies - Gray Trees And Ice - stay down there! |
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Re: King Of The Night Snook!
by Marcel_Karssies on January 15, 2005 http://www.hechtclub.eu | | You've got the smartest Snook on the block. When we fished your dock first time the Snook where piled up in layers. My first impression was that fishing would be extremely easy. As soon as we started to fish the Snook where gone and would only now and then surface to snatch a baitfish or shrimp from the surface. All the refusals of the Snook took me to the brink of total insanity. My fishing buddy Michael was pulling them out one after another with his secret "baltic sea" fly. He never showed me the pattern, told me he had no more (darn liar) |
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Re: King Of The Night Snook!
by Paul24 on January 17, 2005 | | Nice fish! Stay in FL cold as a witch's heart in Maine. Next weeked will try nymphs thru the ice we are driving trucks on the lakes this week. |
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