Well the day started off great while canal/weir hopping in the Picayune Strand, fish left and right but nothing 2lb+ before 11am. 11:30am hook into a snook that came from nowhere but hook was spit, definitely a keeper but oh well. Started catching some big ones after 12pm, Texas rig, reel it in fast for 2-3 seconds so it appeared as top water and then let it sink to bottom where we kept getting thunks... Some of the bigger fish for the day... Still wondering how I hooked that last one.
 

EDIT: It would not let me post the images with the hyperlinks so sorry about the small pics.

Nice fish. I have never heard of this location, where is this exactly? How do you access it?

I too have never fished that area. Is that all those abandoned roads that are south of alligator alley in the East Naples area? I have seen a u-tube video of a panther with cubs crossing an abandoned road out there.

Nice pics! Thanks for sharing the report.. You live in Naples or more North?

Ya Geo, that's the area.  Never fished it but I use to ride my quad in that general area. You have to cross the alley and get off at the 1st Naples exit..

Nice fish. I have never heard of this location, where is this exactly? How do you access it?

 

What? C'mon Lou you don't know PSRP. Surely I talked about it when we fished, it was a parsons project I had the pleasure of working on.  

 

I just bustin your chops buddy....I can tell you more if you want....

What? C'mon Lou you don't know PSRP. Surely I talked about it when we fished, it was a parsons project I had the pleasure of working on.  

 

I just bustin your chops buddy....I can tell you more if you want....

 

MCS, you may have told me, but I honestly cannot remember. My memory is not what it used to be.

I grew up fishing and hunting in the area. It's actually a pain in the rear end to access if you don't live in the golden gate/rural estates because they won't allow regular traffic to access everglades rd from the alley. Two ways to access it... One is from everglades rd, driving over the alley and the other is from I-29 through Copeland onto Janes Memorial dr.... I'd advise though... right now the whole area is going through some HEAVY construction and it's all mud and water. At some of the most southern points I had to turn on 4-wheel drive.

 

Here are some solid fish I caught along Immokalee rd, just a few miles east of I-75... People always ask me "Where do you fish??? You're always bringing in big ones" umm well honestly, I hit anything and everything because you never know what's in the water.

 

EDIT: Sorry about the sideways pics, it won't let me post the hyperlink and it won't let me rotate the photos in my album on here.

there are snook in that same canal off immokalee rd..... do you fish off Bonita Grande? do you know if they waters running.... I highly doubt it, we need rain. 

there are snook in that same canal off immokalee rd..... do you fish off Bonita Grande? do you know if they waters running.... I highly doubt it, we need rain. 

YEESSS I get caught off guard by the snook sometimes because they'll hit worms too. Yeah I've fished there, water is not running right now, everything is pretty shallow, some of my normal 10' + places are 3-4', normal for this time of the year I guess.