By Nathaniel Linville | January 20, 2018
Last week I returned from a three day trip to the Everglades with Chad Huff. Ian Slater accompanied us, in the event that we found ourselves in need of an extra set of hands, and we set out on Monday morning to see what we could find. A cold front of swollen proportion had just been in town, and while it was on its way out when we started we could still see the frozen dent in the couch where the tarpon would otherwise be laying. We decided to snook fish to pass the time on day one, and Chad ran us to a shoreline for a look with a nine weight and a newly-constructed snook fly. Ian was up first, and after catching nothing passed the rod to me. I also obliged with a zero-snook attempt, and at the third spot sat down to tie a leader while Ian hopped up again. It caught us by surprise, just as we were settling in to a cold a fishless pace, when he came tight to a nice fish that put him on the reel. I soon grabbed a 5-pound fish for the team–Ian’s largest personal snook on fly.