09/06/24 Fly Fishing Report: You should be able to catch speckled trout, jacks and ladyfish on flies. Use a sink tip fly line and fish over deep grass flats in Sarasota Bay.
Description: Sarasota Bay is a lagoon that is located off the central west coast of Florida. Though no significant single stream of freshwater enters the bay, it is generally treated as an estuary with three passes or inlets providing access from the Gulf of Mexico.
Tide: Sarasota
Weather: Sarasota, National Weather Service
Tips and Techniques: We recommend using floating fly lines and 12′ or longer leaders for shallow water. We recommend using sink tip lines with shorter leaders for fishing deeper water. Fish the Inter-coastal Waterway at night for snook. An intermediate sink tip fly line works good for this.
Recommended Flies:
Redfish: Flats Crab: size 2, Brown Crab: size 4, Yellow Shrimp: size 2, White Shrimp: size 4, Olive and White Clouser Minnow, size 2,
Tarpon:
Snook: Olive and White Clouser Minnow, size 2,
Recommended Gear: Rod: Perfect Fly SS Series, 9ft seven weight
Fly Line: Perfect Fly “DC” Fly Line
Leaders: Perfect Fly Hand-Tied Tapered Leaders for Redfish
Tippet: Perfect Fly Perfect-Flex Nylon Tippet, size 0X