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  1. 17 mins ago, BrianBM said:

    I don't think the Keys are close to sugar cane fields. The nearest cane would be in Louisiana, AFAIK.

    Sugar cane is grown all over South Florida.  Part of the issue for years with lake O water dispersion to the east and west coasts.

  2. 9 hours ago, RAW said:

    Amazing with cold that snook fishing for the big ones is so good. With water temps down there’s usually a slow down in the bite. My old haunt is really producing for guys knowing the tricks to fishing the tides, barometer and bait. Fish need to eat and the Davy guys know it! sitting here in 2 degree chill factor and a foot or more to snowblow

    I get alot of my big fish this time of year.  They are very oriented on structure.  Fishing that structure a very specific way will yield great results.  It ain't easy and alot of studying and trial and error.  Being here 6yrs now I feel very confident on this local spot.  It does amaze me and acknowledges the time and effort I put in.  I watch boats down below do their thing and have no success, while I drop that net!

  3. If you like the history of that area and old Florida. Google or tube Captain Totch Brown.  Great stories and info from him.  Family has been in that area since the late 1800s I believe.  Talks all about the life of the glades and the early history before any of the common towns and cities were even a thing.

  4. Alot of talk about what to throw, which was the ops question.  Sometimes the difference is the retrieve/presentation.  I would bang on 20inchers all night on peanut bunker so thick you could walk on em.  Change to an eratic/violent retrieve.  Hard jerks. Fast cranks, pauses.  Make it stand out.  Scatter the bait and leave your lure sitting like a cupcake with no cover!  Taken many good fish on schoolie mayhem nights this way.

  5. 17 hours ago, RL Bucktails said:

    That’s pathetic, sounds like a manufacturing defect.

    I know.  That's what I told him.  I believe he sent them back.  Not sure what the issue was or if he got them back yet. Will update.

  6. Fishermen will spend $50 on anything.  Show a couple big fish on it and people are gonna buy it.  This lure maker, im sure saw a window and went for it.  Not all wood plugs are fish catchers.  Some suck!!  If your spending $20 on a plug people will think it's  crazy.  More fish have been taken on sub $10 baits then all the wood plugs.  Bucktails and cheap rubber plastic swimmers have accounted for way more fish by a landslide.  The wood plug market is probably one of the smallest niche bait styles out there, like giant swimbaits.  It's what you wanna throw and what gets your juices flowing.  I was addicted to the plug game like most.  Took me awhile to realize I did not really need em all the time to catch good fish.  I like to fish em and they are fun,  I wanna catch fish and I don't need big $$$ lures to do it.

  7. 53 mins ago, thebeardedwonder said:

    Thank you for the help! Would 15# braid be alright or do strongly suggest 20#? I think I’ll actually have easier access to backwaters than the beach, but I guess I won’t know till September. I still haven’t ordered anything, not sure what I’m waiting on. 

    15# is fine.  They break at a higher rating.

  8. You will not need any rod longer than 8ft and a 3000 -4000 size reel.  20# braid, I would carry 30 and 50# leader.  Your lures will be on the smaller side 5in or less.  Any DOA, smaller x raps, small 1/2oz bucktails.  Topwater for low light.  Freelining live shrimp.  The snook will be moving back of the beach.  Bridges, jetties, seawalls and backwater canals and rivers.  October to March can be ferocious for snook and Jr size tarpon.  I would not spend much time on the beach.  You can catch but your odds will be better elsewhere.  I am here year round and fish artificial almost exclusively and at night.  The fish will be at your feet on the beach, no reason to cast far.  No structure, and bare sand bottom on this area of the gulf.  You want structure and moving water. It is essential to be successful.  Also there is very little tide change as far as height.  Use an app and look for the tide phase with the strongest push of water and focus on that time frame.

  9. Excellent thread.  As I am one on the lower end of the learning curve.  Great info and advice.  Living here the last 5 years and fishing for snook specifically and tarpon 3 to 4 nights a week. They are different fish as opposed to the bluefish, barracuda etc.  Your dealing with teeth and clean immediate cuts.  Snook and tarpon are more abrasive with obviously sharp gills.  A good friend and avid fly fisherman has given me advice and tips.  He tells me to fish the wand more.  I send him pictures of the spots I fish and he understands the precarious nature.  I fish jetties and bridges alot.  50. 80 and 100# leader.  Big snook will tear em up.

     

    Albacized, if you are fishing jetties and the chance of bigger fish. Even 25in fish,  I would tie 40# and up for your  leader, bite leader whatever your going to run to the fly.  I don't think I have ever chased a fish that has the ability to fray leader as fast as snook.  I actually find the smaller ones to be worse,  because they shake and go crazy so violently.

  10. I run 50# braid. 15-20ft of 80# mono leader with 8 to 10in piece of wire to a 8/0 - 10/0 offset circle hook.  This was standard for me in NY from the beach if I was specifically targeting them.  I use the same thing here in SWFL  Even have taken 4 and 5ftrs off the beach on 9ft spinning set ups.  I am in agreement tho, if fishing bait way more enjoyable on a conventional set up.  

  11. I'm in the SWFL.  I've tried sneakers. Kayak/dive boots they were all so so.  I actually suck it up and use my good ol' NE korker boots with the rubber sole.  They have been very good.  Heavy, (relative), hot can be, but I fish mostly at night.  What I like about em. They are more durable than most flats boots etc.  Have great ankle support on the sometimes wobbly jetty rocks, grip well to these jagged, sharp jetties and I'm not worried about stepping on most things while wading.

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