Summertime Sadness
Summertime. It's bittersweet to me knowing that I will have to wait all year for it to be summer again. We have now entered into the Autumn Equinox with the first day of Fall officially gracing our calendars a few days ago. I absolutely adore the beginning of our Fall fishing in Southwest Florida, giant knots of redfish & hungry monster snooks feeding fabulous on most tides. Football fields of whitebait can be located on the grass flats and along our beaches ready to fill your live wells. I've been fortunate enough to grace my home waters with a few days of fishing while I'm in town and it's been fairly impressive considering how much fresh water has been released from Lake Okeechobee into our bay. With the color of the water looking like... well a bad toilet experience it's amazing how hot the bite is! If you'd like to get on the water with one of our great guides in the Fort Myers, Sanibel, Pine Island areas just shoot me a email @ captainlacey@gmail.com and I will hook you up.
In the meantime I'm going to sit here and watch this short video of my summer experience in Belize on loop and drink my coffee :)
Live. Love. Fish.
- Capt Lacey
Take Note.
Flyfishing for permit in San Pedro, Belize. Photo by Jim Klug.
photo by Jim Klug #yellowdogflyfishing
Journaling is not only good for the soul but amazing at putting flyfishing into perspective. Great teachers encourage their students to take notes during class and that is exactly what I've learned to do on this flyfishing journey. Somewhat time consuming but effective at helping us understand what we can do better on that next drift.
Today's notes:
Don't let the problems in your life cloud your mind. Focus on the task and think about nothing else. What you're going to do when you see that permit? How you are going to present the fly? Just let that fly line flow through your fingers like butter until she's on the reel screaming!
To often I find my mind wandering on a quiet flat, then all of the sudden a permit pops up out of no where. Like a car accident, I freeze forgetting to put the brakes on and bam I'm left in the middle of the wreckage. Frazzled and distraught from what just happened, I try to get behind the wheel again.
My mind isn't clear, but what I've learned today is to be ready and drive defensive...always contemplating how to avoid the permit wreckage.
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