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Fishing Report for Sarasota, FL 7/31/18
July was a fun month to be fishing the waters around Sarasota, Florida. Snook fishing was strong throughout the month. The best flies to use for snook, changed throughout the month. Early in the month, smaller glass minnow patterns (size 1-2), EP baitfish patterns,...
The MCFF Welcomes the Return of Sarasota’s Premiere Fly Tying Event
Sarasota, Florida's fly fishing club the Mangrove Coast Fly Fishers (MCFF) is hosting the second annual 'Tie for Pie in July'. This huge fly tying event is spearheaded by Jay Tinsky & Brian Boehm of the MCFF. The event features some of the area's best and most...
Unpredictable Sea Conditions & Red Tide Impacted June Fishing in Sarasota, FL
This post was written by Captain Brian Boehm of Quiet Waters Fishing. He offers fly fishing and artificial tackle charters in Sarasota, Florida.Red tide in Sarasota, Florida presented challenges in June. Red tide is an algae that can carry toxins that are lethal to...
Welcome to Rocky Land
The Rocky movie franchise in a nutshell is the story of a man coming from nothing, overcoming obscurity, getting battered by the champ, and then showing he could hang with anyone in the ring. It's a great metaphor for the process some willingly endure getting into the...
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start
Hopefully, you recognize this as the legendary cheat code for the game ‘Contra’ on the original Nintendo system. If this code doesn't ring a bell, that's okay.Here's the background:The video game Contra arrived just as game systems began gaining strongholds in the...
The Passing of the Unknown Angler
When Lefty Kreh passed away in March, his life was rightly celebrated. Tributes overwhelmed Instagram and Facebook feeds for days. The heartwarming stories of chance encounters and old tales of epic fishing trips with the fly fishing legend, perfectly framed a life...
It is Tarpon Time in Sarasota, FL
Tarpon have been nosing around Sarasota, FL for awhile this spring. Challenging weather and sea conditions have made the start of tarpon season a little tougher than normal. But anglers are getting fish and are getting plenty of shots at fish when conditions have been...
Sarasota, FL CCA All Release Tournament
Earlier this spring, Jay Tinsky (JT) ditched his kayak for the day and spent his 60th birthday fishing the fly division of the annual Sarasota CCA fishing tournament on my Maverick Mirage with me. For those who don't know or haven't fished with JT, he is an...
Overuse es bueno with Shrimp Flies
Overuse is bad for baseball bullpens, groundwater aquifers, credit cards, and antibiotics. Overusing anything can be bad, unless it involves fly fishing with shrimp patterns on the shallow flats of Sarasota Bay. Just as anglers will always catch fish using live shrimp...
Big Seatrout are Around
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 sandy...
If you have any questions about the articles, feel free to contact me. If you go back in to the blog archives, you will be able to find some helpful information for fishing in Sarasota. If you’re interested in a type of trip or species that you read about on my blog, then let me know and we can go from there. The Quiet Waters Outdoor Journal is for folks who enjoy outdoor writing. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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