Water temperatures are ticking up in Sarasota Bay and the very shallow flats are a fun place to be right now. There is a healthy presence of large seatrout in skinny water. They’ve been either loosely grouped together staking out ambush points near potholes on...
Nic Alibasic of Sarasota, FL joined me for an evening of fly fishing in Snook Alley. We fished the beginning of a strong outgoing tide and did well. When tidal flow was minimal we dead drifted glass minnow patterns deep under the lights and found quality fish. As the...
The tides around the new moon in February produced some very good night fishing in the ‘Alley. Glass minnow pattern flies remain the ticket, but we’re now starting to see more and more shrimp wash through the lights, so shrimp patterns should become en...
Warm weather in Sarasota Bay has brought the shallow grass flats back to life. We’re seeing plenty of large seatrout, scattered redfish, and a few rogue snook in very shallow water. Aaron Rudy of Chicago, IL found himself a very nice seatrout while we drifted on...