Thanks. Fresh water fly fishing gets overlooked pretty mightily in FL these days due to all the media hype and marketing focus on saltwater fishing. FL has an incredible abundance of terrific saltwater fishing options, and if you mention a trip to FL in fly fishing circles it is a given that you are getting salty. But FL has just as much excellent freshwater fly fishing opportunity as it does of the salty stuff. From Peacock Bass and Mayan Chiclids on the southern tip of the peninsula and arguably the best Largemouth Bass fishing in the country throughout much of the interior of the state to some wacky rough fish action statewide and Chain Pickerel along the FL-GA state line, fly fishermen could spend a lifetime in FL without ever casting a line in saltwater and have a blast.
Back in the earliest days of fly fishermen pioneering FL's fisheries, anglers from NY, Boston, etc. would winter in FL with their long rods and explore the river estuaries. They documented their catches like naturalists, and marveled at the abundance and variety of fish they took on the fly from the same river as it turned from freshwater to brackish and then to salt. Some of the earliest writers claimed to have caught over a hundred different species of fish on the fly in FL. Personally, I have caught about twenty in the past four years.
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