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Wind - Started at 15 N switched to 5 E around 10am and the to 5 SE around 1pm
Tide -Normal level - High Slack until 10:30am. Hard outgoing until 4:00pm
Major 5:15am - 7:15am, minor 12:30pm - 1:30pm, 29% waxing
Water temp - 73 at 5:30am to 76 at 4:00pm
Barometric Pressure 29.95 rising.
Started off fishing the lights at 5:30am. We caught some nice ones in there Saturday and hoped for a repeat performance. We were only able to find undersize trout and reds.
Started off in my favorite cove on the SSL fishing 2'-3' over sand/mud with scattered grass at grey light. Water was pretty but the forecasted 5-10 SW was 15 N, but the water looked pretty good with 1' visibility. Bait was scarce, but I had 8 blow ups with only 1 hook up (lost) before the sun showed it's face. Next blow up I landed a 16" trout and Steve caught 5 rat reds and 2 pencil trout working the shoreline with plastics.
We moved over a cove where a friend had found some schools of reds Saturday in 1' over hard sand and fished it for about 45 min with only a Sheepshead and small flounder on plastics. seeing no feeding activity we decided to hit some mid bay reefs. We hit several reefs and didn't see any bait, slicks or activity so we moved on to the N shoreline east of Alligator point. On Saturday it was stacked with bait and there were some schools of big reds roaming that I couldn't get to bite. Today there was very little bait and we only caught 2 small trout.
Next move was back lakes. Caranchua had very little bait and 3 boats, so we didn't even fish it. We moved to Greens and found a few trout and small reds at marsh drains where it dropped from 1' to 6-12', but it was pretty slow so we made a run into the marsh to see if we could find some reds to sight cast to. There was scattered bait and no wakes or tailers to be found but we blind caster to areas with bait and Kostas caught his first fish on arties, a nice 25" red. I hooked up and lost one a few minutes later and that was all we could find.
We decided to run back to the cove we started in and the water had dropped out about a foot. They started working the shoreline again and I headed to a gut that dropped about a foot on the other side of the cove since the water was so low. I found some bait getting worked and stood fan casting the gut and caught about 10 trout from 15 - 25 1/2" on tops of different sizes and colors over the next hour. The fish were running the gut and I would catch them in spurts. I kept whistling and hollerin' for the guys to come catch some, but they couldn't hear what I was saying and by the time they made it over to me the tide had stopped and the bite was over.. We then headed back and finally got home about 6:00 so Steve could get to a 8:00 softball doubleheader. Poor guy is going to be hurting tomorrow.
It was a beautiful day and we caught a lot of fish, just not much quality.
We ended up keeping 6 trout for Steve including the big girl that had swallowed a Skitterwalk jr and wasn't going to make it, the red for me and the sheepie for my BIL.
Tide -Normal level - High Slack until 10:30am. Hard outgoing until 4:00pm
Major 5:15am - 7:15am, minor 12:30pm - 1:30pm, 29% waxing
Water temp - 73 at 5:30am to 76 at 4:00pm
Barometric Pressure 29.95 rising.
Started off fishing the lights at 5:30am. We caught some nice ones in there Saturday and hoped for a repeat performance. We were only able to find undersize trout and reds.
Started off in my favorite cove on the SSL fishing 2'-3' over sand/mud with scattered grass at grey light. Water was pretty but the forecasted 5-10 SW was 15 N, but the water looked pretty good with 1' visibility. Bait was scarce, but I had 8 blow ups with only 1 hook up (lost) before the sun showed it's face. Next blow up I landed a 16" trout and Steve caught 5 rat reds and 2 pencil trout working the shoreline with plastics.
We moved over a cove where a friend had found some schools of reds Saturday in 1' over hard sand and fished it for about 45 min with only a Sheepshead and small flounder on plastics. seeing no feeding activity we decided to hit some mid bay reefs. We hit several reefs and didn't see any bait, slicks or activity so we moved on to the N shoreline east of Alligator point. On Saturday it was stacked with bait and there were some schools of big reds roaming that I couldn't get to bite. Today there was very little bait and we only caught 2 small trout.
Next move was back lakes. Caranchua had very little bait and 3 boats, so we didn't even fish it. We moved to Greens and found a few trout and small reds at marsh drains where it dropped from 1' to 6-12', but it was pretty slow so we made a run into the marsh to see if we could find some reds to sight cast to. There was scattered bait and no wakes or tailers to be found but we blind caster to areas with bait and Kostas caught his first fish on arties, a nice 25" red. I hooked up and lost one a few minutes later and that was all we could find.
We decided to run back to the cove we started in and the water had dropped out about a foot. They started working the shoreline again and I headed to a gut that dropped about a foot on the other side of the cove since the water was so low. I found some bait getting worked and stood fan casting the gut and caught about 10 trout from 15 - 25 1/2" on tops of different sizes and colors over the next hour. The fish were running the gut and I would catch them in spurts. I kept whistling and hollerin' for the guys to come catch some, but they couldn't hear what I was saying and by the time they made it over to me the tide had stopped and the bite was over.. We then headed back and finally got home about 6:00 so Steve could get to a 8:00 softball doubleheader. Poor guy is going to be hurting tomorrow.
It was a beautiful day and we caught a lot of fish, just not much quality.
We ended up keeping 6 trout for Steve including the big girl that had swallowed a Skitterwalk jr and wasn't going to make it, the red for me and the sheepie for my BIL.
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