Welcome to the Native Fly Charters fishing report for Oct./Nov. 2015. Water conditions remain murky except for a handful of areas which are clean enough for great sight fishing opportunities. With the warm temperatures still lingering around, the tarpon and occasional snook have been cruising around the flats along with redfish, sea trout, and black drum. Millions of bait on the flats has been making it tough for fish to aggressively take flies/lures, but if you put it close enough to the fish and move it how they like it, you might get lucky.
The water is expected to clean up when temperatures drop making sight fishing excellent, redfish should start to school up along with black drum, and the sea trout will lay up in the shallows making prime targets for fly anglers.
Zach drives down from Georgia a few times a year to fly fish for whatever is good at the time. This time it was Black Drum. After what felt like hours of making some good presentations to schools of drum, he finally got one hooked up which make it his first black drum on fly.
Brad from Colorodo got into some hard fight Jack Crevalle action while in search of snook in the mangroves.
Christoph from Germany had a great experience for his first time fishing in saltwater. Although he caught multiple species, the redfish gave him the most trouble.
Ina from England, also his first time fishing in saltwater. Conditions were a bit windier so we hid in the backcountry where he went 2 for 8 on small tarpon.
Paul and his son Arleigh from Montana got some redfish on a tough windy day.
Milton from Georgia joined me for 2 days of fly fishing. Day – 1 had clean water and plenty of shots at spooky fish with a few eats. Day 2 – fewer shots, windier conditions and only a couple eats. One of those days where the baitfish were so thick, all of the predators were full from feeding and did not want to take a fly unless you make them “reaction strike” it.
Cory from Orlando wearing out snook and redfish off the beach.
