When it comes to fishing the flats of Florida or Belize, Costa Rica or Mexico, you can't do better for a guide than Mr. Henry Waszczuk. If you check out his TV show, Fishing the Flats, you're guaranteed week after week of exciting trips to far-flung locales all in the pursuit of nature's most challenging sport fish.
The host of Fishing the Flats, Henry Waszczuk, has himself dipped into the skinny waters of Charlotte Harbor for cold-weather hunting of redfish, as well as many other Floridian fishing grounds. Fishing the Flats in Florida could be a weekly series all by itself.
Before you knew it, Waszczuk had his own fishing magazine, and he turned years of angling experience into dynamic fishing the flats TV. Any given week, the viewer can watch Waszczuk and crew take on a new adventure. One episode might deal with fishing the flat (and ultra-skinny) waters of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, seeking the mighty redfish in its winter habitat.
It works like this. When the tide is out, the fish I seek are scarce. I'm there to fish the flats, not waste my time. On the other hand, when the incoming tides flood over the flats, it encourages the reds to fan out and go huntin' in newly accessible (higher) areas.
Florida is not the only east coast site to provide angling pleasure. Fishing the flats of North Carolina, in Pamlico Sound, is known to yield giant reds for the sportsman willing to be guided by Waszczuk.
Incoming tide is not the only time to fish the flats. As a matter of fact, game fish sense when the tide is about to go out. They'll hang around in the mouths of tidal rivers, confident that a blue-plate special is coming their way, just as soon as the tide turns! This is when I love fishing the flats, when the reds are everywhere.
I'll never forget one morning in particular, last summer, when I spotted a bunch of redfish hanging around a rocky creek mouth, going to town on some mullet. I landed the fly right in front of 'em, and before you knew it, I was fly fishing the flats like the pros on Fishing the Flats TV.
Any question you may have about fly fishing the flats is sure to be answered in the course of watching this show, or perusing Waszczuk's magazine called "Fins and Skins."
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