Flamingo is a very special place to me, the drive itself into the park is an experience. Once you enter the park you’ll slowly see the landscape change from pine tree’s to open grasslands and prairies. The closer you get to the coast it will eventually become mainly mangroves. Flamingo has a variety of different sceneries, that very so much to the point where sometimes it doesn’t even feel like you’re in the same place in the afternoon as you were that same morning. You could be out on a lush grass flat in Florida Bay chasing tailing redfish and snook one minute and in a muddy lake the next blind casting for snook in water so dirty you’d think the fish would never find your fly/lure. Flamingo has two ramps, one on the Florida Bay side “outside” and one on the backcountry side that leads into whitewater bay. Depending on the day you could catch a tarpon on the outside and then run way into the backcountry and catch a large mouth bass. Not many places in the world that can be done. Flamingo is friendly to anglers of all skiff levels, I specialize in shallow water sight fishing but for the less experienced angler there are many other techniques that are very productive and will keep a bend in the rod throughout the day.