Summer is the prime season for walking Florida’s beaches in pursuit of snook. Last week, I covered 5 Tactics for catching these cunning and hearty fish, so now I’d like to discuss fly selection. Generally speaking, snook flies. . .
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Fish Facts: Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis)
Catching a really large snook is a bucket-list item for many saltwater anglers.
Photo via Livit Films
The most abundant of the twelve snook species, the common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is prized by anglers for its aggressive strikes and go-for-broke fighting style. You can target. . .
Read MoreVideo: How Fly Fishing Helps a Cy Young Award Winner Center Himself
When the 2015 baseball season ended, Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello knew that he’d not lived up to his promise. He’d need to refocus himself during the off-season, and fly-fishing played a big part in finding his mojo again. The next year, he led the . . .
Read MoreVideo: Xcalak’s Salty Buffet
Author Phil MonahanPosted on April 2, 2019Categories Fly Fishing
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Here’s the second installment of the “Buffet Series” from Gilbert Rowley and Phil Tuttle. In this video, they explore the salty goodness around Xcalak, on one of the last “unspoiled” stretches of Mexican Caribbean coast just north of the Belize . . .
Read MorePodcast: All About Snook, With Dan Andrews
Capt. Dan Andres releases a tarpon. But he also loves snook.
This week’s podcast is all about snook. I have never done a full podcast just on snook fishing, but it is the most popular game fish in Florida, so I figured it was high time. I enlisted Captain Dan . . . Read More
Video: The 5wt Chronicles: Into The Backcountry (S1:E1)
Here’s the first episode of the killer new series from Estrada Art Films. Eric and the guys search throughout Florida for untouched backwater estuaries and areas that have been or are. . .
Read MorePhotos: Florida Snook and Egrets with the Chairman
Written by: Leigh Perkins, Orvis Chairman of the Board
Orvis Charmain of the Board Leigh Perkins poses with a fine snook and biologist Pete Frezza.
All photos courtesy Leigh Perkins
We traveled to the Everglades last November with Capt. Rick Ruoff, Capt. “Cap” and JoAnn Cappelletti, and Pete Frezza, who is a marine biologist and Audubon employee who. . .
Read MoreVideo: Snooklets in Florida
Our man in South Florida, Dan Decibel, has produced another great saltwater video. Here, he and his buddy, Jason Fernandez, chase baby snook–or snooklets–in mangrove-lined. . .
Read MoreVideo: 2014 Saltwater Highlight Reel
Patrick Rhea, of Livit Films, has put together some highlights from his year on the water in Florida and The Bahamas, and it’s pretty impressive, featuring tarpon, redfish, snook, and bonefish.
Read MoreVideo: Inshore Snook and Permit in Mexico
Here’s another killer video from the lens of RA Beattie, in which an angler heads deep into the mangroves to catch snook. Some big fish absolutely. . .
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