Early fall is probably the most perfect time to be on the water in Southwest Florida. The constant wall of humidity has broken and the morning temperatures are so pleasant that you can't imagine not catching something great each day.
The real star of the show lately has been the big schools of jack crevalles that have been hanging near the shoreline of Matlacha Pass. Pound for pound, jacks are the strongest fish in the ocean. The one pictured here weighed only five pounds and took as many minutes to land on thirty pound line.
If these jacks got as big as tarpon, people would be afraid to go in the water around here, and actually they do get almost that big. Forty pound jack crevalles have been caught throughout Florida and the world record is currently fifty-seven pounds. That's a fish you could water ski behind and I can't imagine the fight.
I had an angler on Vieques earlier this year hook a ten pounder on fly and we fought it for half an hour. I even had to chase it with the motor running to stop it from spooling us twice. Jacks are ugly and taste like crap but I'd burn a tank full of gas to catch a good one. Fortunately, we can do that just outside our back door this time of year.
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