A large number of fly anglers are extremely passionate about targeting redfish on fly in the Tampa, Bradenton, and Sarasota area. A reoccurring question that I get from fly fishing clients who are planning a trip to the area is – Question: When is the best time of...
The snog fly is a winter snook fly that we use to target finicky snook in colder water. It’s a pattern that fly anglers in our area have been tying for a long time. This winter snook fly pattern is designed to mimic fry or small glass minnows. There are times...
If you’re fly fishing around Sarasota and you’re looking for sight fishing tips, then you should find some helpful information here. For fly anglers fishing in saltwater, sight fishing for gamefish in shallow water represents the apex of the sport. As a guide in the...
Salt water anglers and shallow water enthusiasts on recent Quiet Waters fishing trips found success flyfishing and using light tackle to target snook, redfish, and seatrout. Action in the deep grass featured mainly class size seatrout, bluefish, and jack crevalle....
If you’re looking for the ultimate snook fly, then you should consider adding the ‘Bigly Floating Minnnow’ to your fly fishing arsenal. It’s a surface fly that snook can’t help but be curios about. The fly is designed to be fished slow and deliberately with lots of...
Anglers on recent Quiet Waters fishing trips, run out of CB’s Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, enjoyed good shallow water fishing and dock light fishing. Most trips were fly fishing focused, but we did have a few really fun conventional light tackle trips mixed in....