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Plan B,
Sometimes you just have to go to plan B. With the big IFA tourney coming in two weeks, I went out yesterday afternoon to try my hand and Reds and Trout. On the way out I decided to check the freezer for my handy dandy standby some shrimp I’ve been freezing and refreezing for the last few weeks just in case. Well the sun is now setting and no fish taking the ole pole cat home with me, when I decided to try a root beer gulp shrimp dead stick on a jig head (hooked tail first so it has some action) should be good for at least a six inch trout. Well to my delight something slammed it. Turned out to be a really nice 23” Black Drum, so I immediately staked out and reached for Plan B. Put two rods out with the dead shrimp and BAM, BAM. I was hand over fist black drum for the next four hours or so.
Chappy |
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 Average player |  Solid 21" |  Nice sheepshead | | | |
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It is sad that I am the only one without a sweetie to appease today and had to go fishing instead. 52* air and 54* water is CHILLY and rough on the old hands! And can someone explain how so many meteorologists can be so wrong on the wind? Every place I looked said W to NW, even the NOAA station on St. Augustine pier and when *I* get there it's blowing straight out of the east...which is the least happy direction where I like to fish! So I stuck it out and a good thing too. The bite started and improved! The bigger boys were on the prod today like this guy above who was average...on up to the next guy who was best of the day at about 21"...14 trout in all in 2 hours of tide, 2 about 17", 2 about 18", a 19" and the big one on Chartreuse and yellow Clouser deep minnow. Good fishing all around it seemed as a brother of the angle also got this sheepie from the bridge piling right next to me!
I suppose it could only have been better with another 15* of air temp.Over and out. |
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 How inviting! |  One of the players... | | | | |
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Yes, I did venture forth today in spite of the strong breezes. The tide was bad for my normal spot so I went down to Matanzas and went in at Summer Haven. I had some sport there in the past on the incoming and I would have a wind break there. Got there about noon, high being about 2:20 pm and it was as I thought, wind at my back and protected by the spine of palms on the peninsula. I was presented with a mile of breakwater and beach all to myself.The only way it could have been better is if there were some fish that wanted to play! Worked all down the rocks and along the beach without even a sniff. I did see several fish break so there was something there, just not for me! Fished until 3:30 and thought, what the heck, let's go look at my trout hole since the wind was keeping the water down.
Started fishing at 4 in Vilano, tide much higher than I usually fish here, wind abating quite a lot and flailed away for a half hour with no results. 4:30 I get my first bump and then it started...C&R 7 trout in the next hour but they were smallish, 14"-15", peas in a pod! They were tentative in their striking it seemed. Perhaps because of the bright sun or perhaps it was the day after the front went through. I often have poor success the day after a front with the high pressure. I think the big change may put them off. But as the tide and light level dropped , they became more active. Still enjoyable.
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