Well finally got back to North Chuck from my trip down to South Florida over last weekend. Good times and great fishing in the backcountry.
DAY 1
Made it down to Flamingo around 1pm, loaded up the boat, and headed back into the backcountry. Headed to our home for the evening (Roberts River chickee) and dropped off all of our camping gear. Ran back to Whitewater Bay and fished the back side of some mangrove islands. Wind was howling so we ducked on the leeward side and pitched shrimp and bucktails into the mangroves. Brian got this guy:
Wind laid down around sunset and I busted out the zara spook. Proceeded to cast, catch ladyfish, cast, catch ladyfish, cast, catch ladyfish, cast, catch ladyfish… until we had to run back to camp for the evening. Cooked up some New York strips and had a couple cold ones, beautiful evening. Camp:
DAY 2
Buddy really wanted to check for tarpon in Whitewater Bay first thing, so we started drifting and blind casting mirolures. No dice on the poons, so we started fishing mangroves again. Tough sledding for the most part. Managed a few smaller trout on a root-beer mirolure, oh yeah a couple on these as well:
Middle of the day was really slow basically everyday so we headed up to Shark River and set up camp. Ran out to Ponce de Leon Bay to take a look for tarpon and hopefully hook up. No such luck so we fished some sunken trees on the coastline. I was fishing a white Spro bucktail and no kidding landed a 15 inch sheepshead (never would have guessed). Went in the cooler for dinner 
There was really nothing going on and we were running out of sunlight. I suggest we run to a trout spot and fish topwater for a couple of hours. We made the run to Oyster Bay and it was game on! A