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• hipshot Posts: 27 Greenhorn

  April 2015 #2

  http://www.snookfoundation.org/news/release/276-species-of-snook.html
  Will this help?

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• dogman58 Posts: 31 Deckhand

  April 2015 #3

  dogman58 wrote: »

  I have been fishing the Lox since December with very good success on the smaller snook and juvie tarpon - Bass .
  All of my efforts are with the fly rod and (NLFFB) no live fish for bait - chumming or baiting . Fishing with 6-7 weight rods and only running into an occasional guide (mostly fishing jacks) up in the brackish water - but plenty of paddlers
  on or in kayaks / paddleboards . I have been using small baitfish patterns and topwater foam flies . On the light fly rods this is a great fishery - catching swordspine / tarpon/ and fat and common snook . I have been looking for a source for id'ing these smaller snook and up to now going by the spines in the anal fin - are there any guides available
  that cover all the information .

  
  yes thank you seen this info - dk

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• Ol'DirtyCaster Posts: 2,422 Captain

  April 2015 #4

  Dogman, thanks for your post. A good friend of mine was doing a study on the Lox that required sonic tagging of a good number of snook and watching their movements with a transponder, after the freeze he lost the majority of those tagged fish, good to see they're making a comeback.

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• dogman58 Posts: 31 Deckhand

  June 2015 #5

  I originally was taking the kids (my girls) up in the Loxahatchee River to fly cast for the smaller snook and bass - easy to get to from the farms and a easy boat ride from Burt Reynolds . I guided in the Keys or over 15 years and catching trophy bonefish (80's/90/s) and tarpon and permit was no real big deal - the fishery up in the river is very interesting and challenging but finding all these fish over the last 6 months has been awesome . All 3 species of snook - small tarpon - and the largemouths all on the fly rods and action throughout the river .
  mostly blind casting at structure and ambush points - and always in moving water . Low light topwater with foam gurglers and sinking lines and small spoon flies / snapper imitations . That's right tiny flies by anyones standards ...but anyways when you can consistently catch smaller fish where larger versions of the species exist - you have health in the system .

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