Fishing Reports by Capt. Benny Blanco

Flamingo - Feeling a little Snooky - When targeting Snook in the Flamingo Back Country, keep your approach simple. In moving water areas like rivers or creeks, Snook will tend to hold to structure, bars or fastened tightly to the bottom. Use a bait that can cover deep water effectivel more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Flamingo First Timers - Do you remember your first fish?... I can... I can still see the school of Bluegill at the canals edge. My dad tied a small hook directly to the monofilament line on my Zebco Kmart special. He showed me how to form a ball with bread to disguise the h more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Frozen Flamingo Bite - Bye, bye cold fronts and Hello Springtime! ... Or at least that is what every inshore Fisherman in South Florida is hoping. While the Groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, Mr. Weatherman is professing the opposite... For once, I hope he is r more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Flamingo... A Magical Place - I have fished with some important people and certainly some very well known people. Yet, I have never been so honored to share a day with anyone more than the day I shared with author and environmentalist, Peter Matthiessen. Typically, the underlying more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Going deep in Flamingo - When water temperatures drop, timing quickly becomes the most important component to success in the Park. The cold will push fish into deeper water where they depend on the tide to flush food their way. Keeping this in mind, you can pinpoint ambush more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Freezing Flamingo Bite - Last week I was praising the weather gods for sunny afternoons and warm water. However, this week was a completely different story. Two cold fronts came through bringing high winds, low temperatures and scaring three of my four planned trips away. more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Flamingo on Fire - What a week! With excellent weather and rising water temperatures, we found ourselves fishing fall patterns and hiding from the heat. Jackets were limited to the morning run and sunscreen was regularly reapplied like that of summer days. We took a more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Flamingo Bottom Bumping - Happy New Year! I can't think of a better way to welcome in the New Year than witnessing the first sunrise of 2009 from Florida Bay in Everglades National Park. In my book, it simply doesn't get any better. Hopefully, it means that this year wil more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Everglades Holiday - This week could easily be another page in a Capt. Wejebe Vida Del Mar manual, as we certainly took the road less traveled. I had three trips into the beautiful Everglades National Park and fished entirely different water during each. Most who h more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Whitewater Bay Gold - From the Crocodile Dragover to Lostman's River... I pushed the limits of my Maverick HPX-T once again. In four trips, we covered over 260 miles of Everglades scenery and fished water depths from five inches to over eight feet. We witnessed tailing more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo