Fly Fishing

Marcel_Karssies · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:27 am Post subject: Naples report oct. 10th

Since the winds where still from the westerly directions I made
another visit to Lake Avalon yesterday.
I was pretty lake at the lake so fishing was tough.
I had to work long to get my first fish.
At one of the shallow beaches I saw a hunting bass so I tossed my special bass fly near where I saw the fish and had an instant hit.

Fish nr. 1

I fished the shallow part of the lake but had no solid hookups.
There where not many fish to be seen so things did not look that good.

One of the few fish I saw near the piers that dotted the lake.

I left the shallow part of the lake after several fruitless hours and switched to a fast sinking line to fish the shoreline with the deep dropoff.
By sheer luck I hooked something substantial at the dropoff.
The fish was pretty big concerning my previous catches, my largest bass till now.

My biggest largemouth bass till date.

I got no more fish from the deep part of the lake so I switched
to a floating line and fished the shallow part of the lake.
Fishing was slow but besides managing to catch my biggest bass I also caught the smallest one.

My smallest largemouth.

I took a brake from the blazing sun and set at one of the pavilions to cool down.
Near sunset I tried one of the beaches again but only encounterd
one turtle.
At sunset I decided to give on of the backwater creeks a go.
The creek was shallow and had stained water, from the many bowwaves I figured it was alive.
Splashing fish and a whole battalion of herons and ibis on the shore gave me confidence to fish.

I hooked a fish on the first cast.
I thought it was a bass but to my surprise it turned out to be
a little snook.

A little snook from the creek.

The creek was alive with fish, birds, turtles and even blue crabs.
Fishing was good, almost every cast produced a bit.
It was sometimes scary to see the bowwaves behind the fly.
I managed to haul in another little Snook and two Mayan cichlids before the sun went down.

Mayan Cichlids.

As the sun went down more and more birds landed in the trees of the adjecent bank. The bites went down and the mosquitos came out. It was time to leave.
Fishing the creek made my day, next time I will skip the lake and concentrate on the creek instead.

The creek behind Lake Avalon.