“I’m amazed how Kevin finds his way through the maze of Mangrove islands totake us 40 miles. How does he not get lost?” Dave answers as he drives ussouth to Chocoloskee, “Dude. Can you find your way to the bathroom in thedark? It’s that easy for Kevin.”Soon we were masked and covered with warm outerwear and zooming in Capt.Kevin Mihailoff’s skiff over the shallow waters, deep in the bowels ofEverglades National Park. Our goal was to find trophy sized Snook, sightcast to them with our flies and hopefully land a few giants.We are lucky to be able to fish with Kevin, who is possibly the best in theworld at what he does. He knows countless locations where Snook feed,travel, or lay up, what effects the wind and tides have on the fish, how andwhat to present big Snook under every condition of water and weather. He’sthe perfect fit for advanced anglers. His concentration while poling ashallow cove is intense. Kevin’s ferocious persuit mode soon transformed ourusual casual demeanor. Because of Kevin’s intensity, we soon become flyanglers with a like-minded lazer concentration, poised and ready to deliverour flies “on the nose” of each Snook. We become a six-eyed team, focused onsilence; seeing, poling, delivering, untangling, retying, rapidly unhookingsmaller Snook to get the shot at the laviathan. I know this is a good team.This is the way guided fishing should be. Having a righty and lefty casterin the boat enabled Kevin to maximize wind and tide condition adjustmentswhile polinging each cove and shoreline. Never idle, Kevin moved us to otherlocations in persuit of moving Snook. We had chances at fish at each spot. Ilearned how to cure some casting faults. We landed many large Snook makingus feel like champs and had chances at many more who made us feel likechumps. Sight-fishing dream trip.
Freakin Cuban Missles!!!!! Great video Marshall thats a killer snook!
Thanks for putting up with me for a couple days marshall. I hope it was worth it…he he
That was two of the most insane snook days that I have ever seen.
Marsh:
You’ve had a pretty good month since you arrived. Bahamian Bones and Chocolosnook! Can you feel my envy? Congrats!
Dave
Great Snook!!!
Nice read and video marsh.
Congrats on thoses big ones $$$
Always a treat to be along with you and thanks for fine tuning my cast. You made a killer video as usual….damn, that is very addicting fishing.
dave,
the bone video was shot last April but it wasn’t posted til recently….but we’ll be back! The Snook trip was last Monday and Tuesday and I’m still pumped up!
Looks like a great trip and a true trophy. I have fished for snook only once but man can they pull…even the little ones. Great video man!!! Congrats!
Nice Snook Marshall– I have fished on Kevins Boat and he can put you on some monster fish. Glad to see you put the wood to one. Great!!!!
Nice work on the camera HR…That was a monster Marsh…way to go!
marsh .. nice snook … i have caught many snook and a few snook that i considered to be “nice snook” .. … but never a snook that size …. i got a question … allot of the snook that i have caught down in the everglades have a much darker tint to them … i noticed this fish and all of the fish in the video are much whiter .. is that because they are just coming in from the oceans????? anyway, great fish .. well earned .. well done.
jer,
Bright Snook, yes you were right. They were fresh fish from the ocean as Kevin said to us. Incredibly strong and ‘on the prowl’ moving, searching. Just the kind of big fish in a mode you hope to see all your life. There were a few ‘laid up’ too, laying near the surface basking-like, but as I recall we spooked them on the cast.
Also, there were Snook in the Mangrove roots in an ambush mode so we . These were the darker ones because they’s been in the backwater longer. I’m still pumped and I tied a dozen “Tom’s Tantrums” JUST IN CASE!
great video, I have never caught snook, but from the looks of what you guys did I sure want to.
Great video..
I like the action and the amazing fish 🙂