The real deal on fly-fishing for elusive tripletail along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Crab buoys, channel markers and floating debris are considered obstacles by many boaters. I, however, like to call them “hotspots.” How many times have you been out fishing and passed right by a row of crab pots or a barnacle-encrusted piece of flotsam? We’ve all done it. I, too, was once guilty of passing by these “fish havens,” but if you take the time and look a little more closely at these objects, like I did, you may come across what I consider, black gold. It doesn’t matter what kind of angler you are, there is no denying the excitement that comes along with sight-fishing, and when it comes to fly-fishing for tripletail, dropping a fly right on the fish’s nose and watching it inhale it in an explosion of whitewater is no exception!