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I went down to SoFL to help run a Wounded Heroes Fishing Project fishing event (Palm Springs Veterans and Family Peacock Bass fishing) on Saturday. Of course, I had to get a little fishing in so after I landed in FLL in the early afternoon, I proceeded to meet Capt. Mark Hall to see if we could get on a Peacock Bass or 2. It had stormed while I was flying and a front moved in as I landed. Luckily, things cleared up.

This is the scenery....





Saw a lot of iguanas as well. Reminded me of when I was a kid in Cuba.

So we started the hunt as it's a sight game when targeting them on a fly (using a 7wt).

We saw one in a cranny and Mark says to throw the fly. Sure, there are rocks, bushes and tree limbs in the way but you have to make the cast. For this one, it was at least 30 casts before I finally pissed it off enough to bite me!



We moved to look for more but it was tough. They were hiding in the deep deep but I was not about to change to conventional.

Then we came up on a "lake" and found a few more. Just like the other one, you literally had to hit him in the head to get them to strike. And he did!



I did throw blindly at a known area and got 4-5 nips but we never saw a fish and they never got hooked up.

Then Mark sees this!



Hmmm, what could it be?










A manatee! We spent a god 20 minutes just admiring it as he/she floated around.

No one else was fishing on Thursday but they were out on Sunday.



This is the line to get into the ramps (15 ramps) on Sunday afternoon around 1:30pm!!

BTW, we had a decent showing at the Wounded Heroes Fishing Project event but only 1 fish was caught, an oscar. I was not able to get a pic.

Some other pictures are on Facebook at fishingcommunity.org's page.