Everglades Fishing
Fishing the Everglades is truly a unique experience that very few anglers will get to enjoy. If you are heading to Naples, Marco Island or even Miami, you are not too far from the Everglades and you may want to consider hiring a guide to take you out for a memorable fishing trip. The Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the entire United States and it boasts rare and endangered species.
The fishing in the Everglades can be very fast-paced for a number of species. With the brackish, shallow backcountry bays and rivers, outside islands, oyster bars and miles of canals, there are plenty of places to fish for largemouth bass, snook, redfish, trout and tarpon.
Most people have heard of the Everglades for the largemouth bass fishing, but there is a tremendous saltwater fishery in the Everglades as well, which gives you a couple of different options when you plan a trip down here. Most of the fishing guides and charters will take you saltwater fishing for snook, tarpon, redfish or trout or bass fishing in the canals, so you need to know what type of trip you’d like to go on before hiring a guide.
The saltwater fishing consists of Florida Bay, Ten Thousand Islands and elsewhere in the National Park’s coastal zone. While most of the anglers target snook, tarpon, redfish or trout in the Everglades, there are plenty of other saltwater fish to catch while you’re here. Some of the other fish that are available are black drum, bluefish, bonefish, cobia, flounder, grouper, spanish mackerel, pompano, shark, sheepshead and snapper.
For the freshwater angler, the bass fishing can be amazing in the canals. More largemouth bass are caught here per hour than any other place in the entire state of Florida. That says a lot knowing how many excellent bass fishing lakes that are available to Florida anglers. Most guides have no problem getting their clients to catch plenty of bass using artificials, so expect to use a lot of topwater lures, plastic snakes, plastic frogs, big spoons, buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, etc. Just try not to get too distracted with all of the alligators that you may see while you are fishing.
Summer months are going to be hot and humid with temperatures in the 90s, while the winter months will cool off a little bit with temperatures in the high 70s most of the time. Fishing can be good in the Everglades in the spring, summer, fall or winter.
For more information on the Everglades, take a look at our tourism links below.
