Part Fishing Report, Part Update
Thank you for reading this part fishing report, part update. I posted a blog last week but did not distribute it via Mailchimp. For those who missed it, the link is below.
Fishing– haven’t done much. I met Rodney Smith and Tammy Wilson at Titusville’s Sunrise Bread Company on Thursday. Tammy works on the All Waters Adventures charter boat out of Port Canaveral. She said all the port captains are calling this month “no fish November.” It’s been so rough they can’t get out of the port.
This cypress tree added a bit of autumnal color to my Econ River paddle.
Having said that, last week I paddled the Econ from SR 419 to Snow Hill Road. No fishing tackle was carried. The gauge was at 8.5 feet that day. The Florida Trail crosses the river by means of a footbridge about two-thirds of the way down the river. The water was so high I could not go under that bridge, and had to go around it. Weird, but there you go.
I had received a hot tip the bass were feeding in coves along the Econ, so Monday I launched the Bang-O-Craft at CS Lee and ran up the Econ to verify. Disclaimer- two or three weeks may have passed between receiving said information and acting on it. At any rate I enjoyed a beautiful day, but did not see nor touch any fish.
Thursday, after the above-mentioned bread company ron-day-voo, Rodney and I took a ride on Biolab Road. Mosquito Lagoon looked brown and terrible. A hard east wind had it all chopped up, too. There was a couple truck fishing, and as we passed them we could not help but notice they were measuring a fish. Naturally we stopped. It was a black drum. They told us they had caught ten, and before we drove off they hooked another one. They were just soaking shrimp. That’s my hot fishing tip this week.
Monarch butterfly.
We saw some birds, butterflies, and one obese alligator. We talked about how, at one point in time, you could drive the Biolab Road, see tailing reds from your car, park, wade out, and catch them with a fly rod. Looking at the water now even I have a hard time believing we used to do that.
Gulf fritillary butterfly.
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Head of obese alligator.
I just started using a new app called Magma, where I put together a short photo essay about fly fishing in the everglades. You can see that at https://magmanow.com
Body of same alligator.
The link to last week’s photo essay on the Orlando Wetlands Park is https://www.spottedtail.com/blog/orlando-wetlands-park/
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No report next week. I’ll be preparing for a week-long paddle-fly-fishing trip to Everglades National Park.
I hope everyone has a safe and blessed Thanksgiving!
Thank you for reading this Part Fishing Report, Part Update blog!
Life is great and I love life!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go fishing! or paddle!
John Kumiski, author of Fishing Florida by Paddle- An Angler’s Guide
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