i lived in stuart until 8th grade i think and i swear that's all i ever caught. just snook, snook, snook then we moved up a little north to vero and there just aren't near as many. or at least i still haven't found them 10 years later haha. lots of trout, and seeing some reds though.

yea, i'm an awkward lefty . plus, then people don't ask to use my tackle as much haha.

tied some more stuff this afternoon. plan on fishing tomorrow and wednesday. not even sure what this pattern is called but it's basically just like a rabbit sea-ducer. tail material varies between polar fibre, bucktail and some yak hair i believe. all the heads are just spun rabbit strips with diff sized eyes.

They have some weird bugs in Florida. When I go fly fishing in Mammoth, California the biggest fly I use is about 1/3 of an inch.

generally but not always the size of the fly targets the size of the fish you catch.

those are all tied on 1/0's and mlike 4inches long maybe? yea i suppose all the saltwater flies are a lot bigger generally. part of it is when you are fishing deeper water i guess 1) you need to make your presence known more and 2)not as concerned w presentation. that, and standard, 'match the hatch' most of the baitfish that the fish in the river (here, at least) are eating are a little bigger. i've fished some shrimp patterns before and they can work well in a little shallower water but you also end up catching a bunch of 4" snapper or pinfish which is annoying.

went last night, tried our hardest to catch snook, didn't catch a thing. fished some live baits under some bridges and canals and then went around when the sun went down the fly rod looking for lighted docks (which usually concentrates minnows/shrimp small stuff and usually decent sized snook will loiter around the edges)
made some little minnow patterns but no fish last night (those are #2 hooks iirc)

went again this morning and caught some fish--here is a nice little redfish i caught on my 6 weight w one of the red/white rabbit flies from above. hooked it in relatively deeper water, prob 6 ft or so, right in some mud off of a bank and got a really good fight out of it w/ the current and water depth. was really fun.

I think that, that phrase is a misconception. I have been fly fishing for over 10 years and I have seen baby trout grab onto a fly about half the size of them, and Alper's Trout grabbing onto flys 1/4 of an inch (Of course it is harder to land them with such a tiny hook.) They didn't happen often, but they happened enough to rule out just an oddity.

re read what you quoted please.

hey, back 40 or so years ago, no one used flies down Miami way. i only found one shop in the city that had any flies and only a few junker rods.

i saw lots of people catching mullet out of back waters and the slow parts of the bays, so i was asking what they used and they said you cant catch them on flies. that is all it took and i figured out what to do and landed hundreds of them over the course of a year.
lots of fun.

next it was bonefish. i heard about how they run off all the line on your reel. but you needed live bait like small crabs to catch them. and they wouldnt hit flies.

so i tied up something to look like a small crab but came out pretty badly, but it did work.

so i caught bonefish in biscayne bay by wading out and casting to what i saw.

you caught mullet? on the fly? i've never even heard of anyone catching a mullet, or even trying to lol. what did you use? that's pretty interesting.

Mullet Fish are also called Bread Fish right or is that another fish?

i have never heard of them called anything other than mullet so i really don't know. they range from a few inches ("finger mullet") to like prob 2lbs (i like to call these "bank loafers") around here. ppl cast net them for bait for snook/tarpon et cetera and also rig them up for teasers while sailfishing. i have never caught one and i've been fishing a lot since i was like 4 or 5 lol.

they were easy to catch. most bank fishermen used some kind of doughball.
i dont remember exactly what i used but i think it was a small tan or gray nymph of some kind. i also caught some on dry flies at times.

most were one to two pounds and fought hard.

shell, i only heard of them called mullet as well.

very cool ray. i will have to check that out. weird i had never heard of anyone catching one.