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Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/17/09 08:10 PM
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my dad and i are planning to get some redfsh on the fly. Where is the best place to go? what time of the year is the best? We were thinking of going in the spring. thanks -patrick
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/17/09 09:26 PM
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Bug_Slinger
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No other then Louisiana! Monster fish all willing to take a fly!
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/17/09 10:02 PM
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I think fall is the best time for reds in Texas....but really any time you can go is a good time. We have one of the world's greatest flats area down on the Laguna Madre and it can be great for shallow water reds....but if I had to pick the very best place I know of it would be the Indian River out of Titusville Florida. Year around outstanding red fish on the fly with shots at really large fish.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/17/09 10:47 PM
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Oh I have to agree with the above statement, I posted real quick and logged off without fully getting into what I wanted to say. If you are looking to go and have a great time and catch your first redfish on fly, you can't beat the LM. You stay in Texas and you can find some pretty good deals on hotels if you look or just camp out.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/18/09 02:52 PM
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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08/19/09 03:36 AM
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Oh I have to agree with the above statement, I posted real quick and logged off without fully getting into what I wanted to say. If you are looking to go and have a great time and catch your first redfish on fly, you can't beat the LM. You stay in Texas and you can find some pretty good deals on hotels if you look or just camp out. I think fall is the best time for reds in Texas....but really any time you can go is a good time. We have one of the world's greatest flats area down on the Laguna Madre and it can be great for shallow water reds....but if I had to pick the very best place I know of it would be the Indian River out of Titusville Florida. Year around outstanding red fish on the fly with shots at really large fish. i will deffinitly check this out! thanks guys!
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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10/11/09 08:39 PM
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I think fall is the best time for reds in Texas....but really any time you can go is a good time. We have one of the world's greatest flats area down on the Laguna Madre and it can be great for shallow water reds....but if I had to pick the very best place I know of it would be the Indian River out of Titusville Florida. Year around outstanding red fish on the fly with shots at really large fish. Ding Ding ding! We have a winner! Indian River Lagoon, Mosquito Lagoon, and Banana River! True treasures and much prettier than Louisiana...plus thirty and forty pound fish on the flats year round...
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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10/20/09 11:41 PM
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Posting a video like that when I'm stuck in Amarillo in a hotel is just cruel and unusual punishment.
"The best trips are not planned." Written here, and used by permission of, SBridgess.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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10/21/09 12:51 AM
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Meadowlark
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Ding Ding ding! We have a winner! Indian River Lagoon, Mosquito Lagoon, and Banana River! True treasures and much prettier than Louisiana...plus thirty and forty pound fish on the flats year round...
Yep, true treasures. No place for reds quite like it.....just a long ways from home.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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10/23/09 05:12 PM
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TheRodFather
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My folks live in Vero Beach so I get to pop in every once in a while for the action.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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12/12/09 02:42 AM
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I hope those redfish didnt hurt the boat! thats amazing.. no words can describe it. They are schooling like sandbass on a summer morning!
what type of baitfish where they destroying? i couldnt really see any baitfish in the pic
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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12/20/09 03:29 PM
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Jackmack65
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I have avoided the Saltwater Fly Fishing forum for a long time because I feel like I don't want to get bit by this bug.
Looks like I've got some problems now.
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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12/20/09 03:49 PM
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now that i think about it the guides in Destin, Florida say the reds are eating like crazy in the fall right off the beaches
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Re: Where is the best place to fly fish for redfish?
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01/15/10 11:19 PM
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I've got to give it to Louisiana. I've fished there with Capt. Bryan Carter and have seen some great water - filled with fish ready to boost confidence levels beyond rational levels. In the total of about 10 days I've spent on the water there over the last 3 years, I've seen one boat that was fishing. It's close and cheap, too.
However, wade fishing for tailing reds on the Texas flats always gets me excited.
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