Key Largo Flats & Backcountry Fishing Report

Welcome back to “What’s Bitin”. 1-23-06 Here’s this weeks fishing report.

The weather forecast for this week was supposed to be nice for fishing but Mother Nature sure didn’t hear it. In between the winds and the low tides we fished hard for Reds and Snook.

We caught a lot of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish but we did get our Redfish and Snook.

On the last day of the week I had two Anglers, Chris & Andy who are my good friends. (that’s them in this weeks photos). We fished on Andy’s boat in the Backcountry. The winds wouldn’t let up so we couldn’t do any poling on the flats. We hit the deep holes instead.

My buddy Chris hooked the first Redfish and lost him at the same time Andy hooked a Red and on the boat he came.

I hooked a nice Snook but he broke my line (Thanks to Andy’s rigging). I was using his rod & reel. (just kidding Andy).

A little while later my little buddy Chris hooks a Redfish and saves the day.

Sometimes it pays to fish the Flamingo and Capt Sable area where you can hide from the winds.
Coming up this week we’ll be doing more fishing for Big Redfish, Snook and Trout.

If you would like to take one of these Backcountry trips just call me on my boat phone (305) 394-0505 anytime. http://www.reelranger.com

Capt.Leon, My name is Andy Hickman and I am the owner and editor of an
online fishing newspaper called the FishNet Daily News. I live just
outside of San Antonio Texas and have been a sal****er angler since the
age of ten. Our paper gets an enormous amount of traffic and we would
like to post your reports or better yet have you post them. If you
would consider sending us a picture of your self and some bio we would
look at running your reports and articles in our paper.You can e-mail
this to
Thanks may God Bless
Andy