FLAMINGO

by NestorAlvisa

This time of year my time in Flamingo is spent targeting snook on the beaches along Cape Sable and on up the coast. One of my favorite things to do when shing around Cape Sable is using my MinnKota Ulterra trolling motor to slowly work the shorelines looking for the snook cruising along the shorelines. It’s a lot of fun seeing a big snook or several, either laid up or slowly cruising along the shoreline. Site shing is a blast. You can watch the sh chase down and hit whatever lure you tossed at them.

I like to use lures like white jerk baits, top water plugs like a skitter walk or even swim baits for this type of shing. When cruising up the coast I’ll look for points with moving water and I’ll either toss jerk baits, swim baits, a live pin sh under a bobber, or I’ll put the pin sh on the bottom using a knocker rig.

On calm days you’ll also nd me cruising outside the park boundaries shing crab buoys for tripletail. Once spotted a shrimp under a small bobber will always do the trick!

Fishing the Gulf wrecks and rock piles during this time is also a lot of fun as they produce a lot of permit. When targeting these sh we try to slowly dri to them or work our way very quietly with our trolling motor towards them. Once in casting distance a free-lined crab or a crab on a weighted hook depending on depth and current will do the job.

Nestor Alvisa

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