it has been nice and windy for a few weeks now…mainly between 20-30mph so when it drops out to 15-20 it seems not so bad…easier to wade but sometimes you can use wind to help you…here is some pictures of this weekend as I moved north towards Miami for the 1st time in 09…
Well done, Cordell!! 
Now, what’s that fly in the 3rd picture? That doesn’t look like an Electric Dread?
Great photos.That’s fishing I dream about.
the tarpon have arrived on the flats…lots of bull sharks as well…most are going 200lbs but up to 600lbs in 2-3ft of water…full moon will get them fired up
canadian guide Josh on Biscayne Bay…
forgot reply…it is not electric dread but what I call a speed dart for lack of a better name…nothing fancy but just calf tail and heavy DB eye kinda like a gottcha or something…I pull the calftail straight up to tye and it serves as weedguard but also its a fast dropping fly for bones or whatever…its the “fastest” fly I know…here a a couple of tired veterans including the pink one that caught the 3 bones…they are ready to give to new flyfisherman I know until he gets tying his own…even though they are beaten down and ugly they still will work…they look like flags in the weeds and I use them for the redfish…see the faded green one in the mouth?
speed darts are still raging…baby tarpon now has fallen prey…
Watching the video. Kewl, a little tight, but still kewl. I brought back a similar situation from last summer when I was fishing the Chandeleur Islands, off Louisiana. We were drifting in about 6 ft of gin clear water when I hooked a 7# speckled trout. Nice fight, but after a minute or so, the fish started to act much different. The fish ran straight at the boat and then went back out a bit. All of a sudden, as the trout is hauling tail across our wake, I see what had him so nervous…a bull shark, similar size to the one in your video. When it appeared that the trout was going to be sushi, it immediately dove for the bottom and buried itself in the grass, just as the shark passed right over it. It was then that I screwed the drag down, pulled the trout plus 4 or 5 lbs of the bottom up with it and snatched it into the boat. The shark made several passes over the spot the speck dove and gave our boat a couple of good looks and we could tell that he was not a happy camper. That was enough to convince us that fishing was over for the day.
Keep up the good posts.
Tight lines, Chris
while I sometimes fish for the bulls right now is so many of them in the freshwater flows that it would quickly turn into a frenzy…I can count well over 20 large fins just at the launch…yesterday I seen a really big one that actually scared me and made me go towards shore…easy 12ft and laying back at the end of the freshwater flow making aggressive passes at baitfish…not much trout where I fish but the same thing happens when you hook a cuda or a snapper…see the guts hanging from this cuda? I broke my pushpole fighting off the shark at the canoe…sweet…my neighbor ate the cuda…
