-: On this season of Beyond Debate, brought to you
by Streamli, we continue our pursuit
of saltwater game fish this time from Aila Marada in the
heart of the Florida Keys, where the abundance of forage,
the diverse habitat and the comfortable water temperatures
attract a wide array of fun and exciting species.
Join us as we target some of the keys best on
beyond debate next.
Growing up in South Florida,
I've always been in love with s snow fishing.
I've targeted the line siders in a number
of different environments,
so I was very excited when I found out that, well,
that was gonna be one of our targets in a trip here in
Island Islam Morada, particularly
because we get to venture into the back
country of Florida Bay.
So stay tuned.
I'm looking forward to some exciting line sider action.
Well, captain, you did a great job netting bait.
Now that we've got our live bait supply,
we're heading into the Florida Bay back country.
-: Yeah. So always catching the bait's a little stressful
from my standpoint, but we got it done
and now we're gonna head into the back country
and see if we can turn it into some snook redfish,
maybe trout Jax, who knows all.
And again, we, we continue with the diversity here.
That's diversity a great thing. That diversity is
the name of the game.
And let's see if we can just keep adding to our species.
Sounds great. Let's do it. All right, let's go.
-: During our snook fishing segment, we ventured deep,
deep into the backcountry in Florida Bay
and we actually stopped at a number
of different places just following the tide based obviously
on, on our guide Captain Mark Gilman's recommendations, who,
who basically knows every single stop along the way
where you can target line siders.
-: So we just stopped here in a spot in the back country.
We're doing a little snook fishing, maybe red fishing.
-: Yeah, we're hooked up. So let's, let's switch. Okay.
There's fish of the day. This might be a
jack The way it's fighting.
No, it's a little snook Mr. Lance.
Oh, smoke too soon. Smoke too soon. That's okay.
That was our first line. Cider of the day. Yep.
That was a Palm Beach release. One zero Snook. Yep.
We called that a Palm Palm Beach release.
'cause you don't get your hands dirty. We know they're here.
Let's see if we can get a second one.
This is, this might be a little bit better.
About the same size. Alright. They're here. They're here.
There he comes. Beautiful.
Not super long, but nice and chunky.
Yes, he is definitely eating well. Very healthy fish.
Absolutely. And one
of the things I love about the back country fish.
Look at the yellow on the fins.
He's actually a little better than the other one.
Watch out, watch out. Come, come, come, come, come.
We're good. Yeah. He's better than the other one. Yep.
That's a good fish. No question. Yay. Alright.
Thank you sir. Nice fish.
That's a good one. Beauty.
-: That is a beautiful backcountry snook aura. Saw right
-: There.
And we were, we were mentioning is
look at the yellow on the fence.
I love that. You know, those, those, those ocean fish, a lot
of times they don't have that yellow so
darker back beautiful fish.
That was, well you called it, you said, let's,
let's stop at this, this first spot here on our way.
Let's, let's fish this edge
and let the, the, the life bait sweep down the edge.
And sure enough, it didn't take long at all.
We, we had a couple customers right away.
-: Tide, tide, tide. It was the right time to try this area
and it's, it's been productive.
So let's, cool. Keep at it. Let's keep at it.