I got home from South Florida, yesterday.  We spent our first day fishing with Kevin Mihailoff out of Everglades City.  Just five minutes after we started to look for laid up tarpon, Jonathan (aka Fly Addict) cast to, caught and landed a sleeper close to 60 pounds!!!  The fish fell for a fly made of black and purple hackle and a black spun deer hair head.  It's pretty awesome to see these large fish (some over 100#) just lying motionless on the water's surface.  We got two more shots at laid up tarpon that day.  The fish followed the fly but did not eat.  To wrap up the day, Kevin took us way up into the backcountry.  The area was totally loaded with snook and a few baby tarpon.  We landed many snook on black muddlers and jumped a baby tarpon.  The Everglades has got to be one of my favorite areas that I have ever fished.  It is so wild and remote!  The next two days we spent in Key West fishing with Sandy Horn.  We had windy conditions and saw few fish on the first day.  I tied into a huge 100 plus pound tarpon that somehow broke the 50# butt section of my leader in half when the fish exploded on the fly.  The next day I hooked an 80 pounder that made one jump and then dogged down during the rest of the fight making several long runs.  I got the leader inside the rod tip several times for the "official" catch, but she wore through the 60# bite tippet before we could get her beside the boat for some pictures.  Jonathan had one take that day but the hook did not set.  All our takes in Key West came on 2/0 black and purple toads.  We spent the next few days wadefishing on our own around Marathon and Islamorada with little success.  Our last day was spent with Pete Rowney in Islamorada.  We had 25kt winds and tried to hide in the backcountry, but ended up coming in early due to the weather.  Both Jonathan and I were lucky enough to sight cast to and hook 10-15 pound Goliath Grouper in about 1ft of water.  The initial burst of these fish is unbelievable!  We weren't even close to slowing these guys down with 20# tippet as they broke us off in the mangroves within seconds!