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.

FISH GODS SMILED ON US TODAY

10-30-2011--Had a Mother/daughter/son and fiance today. Spent two to three hours in the flats for a few throwbacks but not a single keeper. Moved to a channel where the fish congregate when the water is low because the water was falling all day. Right away we started catching some smaller keeper black drum mixed in with small reds. All of a sudden the big black drum and redfish started to bite. It was two and three at a time after that. Our only problem was keeping enough baits in the water. We filled the ice chest and used a live well to store the others. Luckily I brought more ice than normal so we had ice to put in the livewell. We ended the day with 20 black drum and 12 redfish for the party of four. They are convinced I do this every time out.

FISHING IS BETTER

10-28-2011--Had a lady and her two brothers today. She was very excited about getting to fish and even more excited when one bit. That made it a great day for the rest of us. Having someone excited is really contagious. We managed 5 redfish, 2 flounder and 3 sheepshead today. One of the flounder measured 21". By the way the lady caught the largest redfish and she was very proud of it.

TOUGH DAY

10-22-2011--Last night my fishermen for today said they wanted to wade fish today. While two of them were getting out of the boat and I was getting my boots on the third fisherman told me he wanted to fish out of the boat. I told them, based on past experience that dividing up the team never works very well. To my regret I relented and told the two to wade fairly fast down to a cut between two reefs while the boat fisherman and I went outside the end of the first reef. When we got there the trout were feeding aggressively. The bite only lasted 45 minutes and then it was over. The waders didn't get close to the cut until the bite was finished and when I picked them up they only had one trout. We moved many, many times the rest of the day to catch two keeper black drum.