Feb 25 2008

When it comes to picking great days for fishing Jack and John sure can pick' um.
We started out sight fishing to red fish. Although we had perfect flat conditions... The reds did not tail. (I'm sure the red fish tourney held 2 days earlier had nothing to do with it). The reds were around, but they held tight staying warm in the shallows. We had no wind, but we did have lots of low haze putting a nasty glare on the water....By the time we could see the reds, they were all ready on the move.
Time for plan B. We made a quick move to a deep hole with the incoming tide sweeping bait off the shallow edge. That's what the boys wanted. I don't know for sure how many trout they caught. I do know it was fast and furious for about 45 minutes. In fact Jack actually said" hey something is wrong. I just made a cast and didn't hook a fish." Then, another boat drove right through our spot.
With the boat, combined with the tide starting to end, the bite, also, ended.
We then went to sight fish cruising reds on the outside bars. Again, we had the fish, could see the fish, but could not get them to bite. We did catch 2 more big trout which the boys decided to keep.
After checking 2 more spots we found the snook. Big snook... The first pair sitting perfect on a small bar off a point in turtle bay, problem was they saw us. We poled down that shore line site fishing to snook ( Some over the 20lb mark). We didn't fool 'um....I guess the old saying "You don't get old by being dumb" must be true. But, we did catch reds. We finished of the day with more trout and the occasional crazy jumping ladyfish. On the last stop, John finished his inshore slam with a nice 25" snook.
We fished nothing but artificials all day on light spinning tackle. Mostly 1/8 ounce jig heads with soft plastics. Gulp shrimp, exude grub tails and bass assassin blurps paddle tail style.

I hope everyone gets a chance to get out soon and enjoy the warming water conditions and the active fish.

Cold weather tomorrow, so today could be really good.

Thanks
Capt. Jamie Allen