DUKE'S MIXTURE

11-22-2011--Had a couple today. Started out on trout with a slow to medium bite that slowed to nothing after 7 keepers. We moved 8 to 10 times and caught keepers of some kind at most places. Ended the day with a fairly nice box of fish including 7 trout, 2 reds, 4 drum and 3 sheepshead.

AFTERNOON FISH

11-16-2011--Had one fisherman today. We started after 3 PM and fished about 3 hours for 2 reds and 3 black drum. He had a god bite for the first hour but afterwards it shut off. I don't think he caught a keeper after the first hour.

LIMITS OF REDFISH

11-13-2011--The 20 plus mile per hour wind forecast for this morning turned out to be zero. Beautiful morning on the water but the lack of wind made catching keeper fish difficult. The wind finally came up later in the day and made the catching a lot better. Early we caught lots of trout but only 5 of them were keepers. The couple ended the day with a good box of fish with the lady having caught a grand slam including redfish, trout, black drum and flounder in addition to some large sheepshead.

SATURDAY FISHING

11-12-2011--Spent most of the day trying to catch trout but all the places where there had been keeper trout now only had short trout. My crew included a couple and their 9 year old son. The 14 and 1/2 inch trout kept the 9 year old interested. After switching to redfish they did manage to put 3 nice reds in the box. The youngster was excited about catching his first redfish.

THREE TROUT LIMITS BY 7:40.

11-07-2011--Waded the same reef where we caught trout on Saturday. We used artifical baits, mainly gulp 3" shrimp, and were back in the boat with 30 trout at 7:40 AM. Makes for happy fishermen.

EARLY TROUT BITE

11-5-2011--Today I had a couple for their third trip with me. Last trip we limited on redfilsh including two oversized reds but today was a trout day. They limited on trout before 8:15. The rest of the day we looked for black drum and redfish. Ended the day with 20 trout, 5 or 6 black drum and 1 redfish.

The bait of choice for the trout was live shrimp. The rest of the fish were caught on fresh dead shrimp except two of the largest black drum took artifical Gulp 3" shrimp.