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The inshore fishing of the florida keys backcountry remains pretty good. Water temperatures are staying cooler and we've continued having some lighter 'cool' fronts after the one good cold front a little over a week ago. Snook fishing in the back remains steady around the mangrove islands, shorelines, and runoffs on the low tides. They have been happiest feeding on pilchards, though when the water temps dip below 70 shrimp has worked wonders. You can find a mix of drum and sheepshead in many of these same areas this time of year and they all love shrimp. We are seeing more redfish in the deeper creeks and canals of the cape sable area, and many of the runoffs in the backcountry continue to hold fish, however is best when we have cold fronts and negative tides. Capt. Skip Nielsen had a good day of mutliple species including jacks, mackerel, snook, and a very large goliath grouper. While the mackerel have not been very consistent in the usual areas, Capt. Skip reported getting into a good bite in the near gulf of the backcountry in dirtier water. Capt. Rick Stanczyk had a couple good half day trips of snook fishing, boating double digit fish each time though they had to work hard for them with the live pilchards. Sharks have also been somewhat of an issue if you don't get the snook to the boat quickly. Never stick your hands in the water especially when your in the backcountry or gulf and cannot see the bottom. Capt. Rick also reported good patch fishing a couple days ago, with plenty of porgies, snappers, some nice hogfish, and juvenile grouper. Capt. Daniel Biondoletti had a very nice size snook several days ago fishing with his customers around flamingo, one of the larger specimens seen recently! Way to go! Capt. Bill Bassett had some nice hogs as well fishing some patches further west and out of the usual areas. Capt. Chris Daly today had his son Fisher out he caught this stud jack crevelle. Capt. John Johansen reported some good snook fishing and nice jacks a few days ago as well, using live pilchards. Capt. Perry Scuderi had some good fishing around flamingo yesterday too they had snook and redfish to report. Looks like nice weather this week we may possibly be getting some of the tail end of the big cold front that is currently crossing the US, however probably not until the end of the weekend or so. Remains to be seen what it will do but shouldn't hurt the fishing for us!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 11/11/2014 10:25:14 AM by Seamus and last updated on 11/27/2014 10:25:14 AM.
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