IT JUST GETS BETTER EACH DAY

12-30-2011--What a great day to be on the water--beautiful weather, light wind and fish biting. We started the day with very dense fog and it came and went more than once during the day. The increased cloud cover probably helped our bite in the clear water.

We spent most of the morning moving from place to place before finding fish. They were in deep guts. We stood on ridges and threw Gulp - both jerk shad and 3" shrimp, into the deeper guts. This was the first time I, or my guest for that matter, had experienced fishing in a school of drum for trout. There were at least 2 schools of about 100 each black drum that stayed in the same little area and just circled around for hours. They really did not want to feed, but the good news was the active trout that were with them. I believe the trout were feeding on what the drum stirred up. Anyway we pulled trout after trout out of the drum pod. My guest ended the day with his limit of 10 nice trout, 4 black drum and 3 flounder.

I know this post is late but I had trouble getting the picture to go with it.

TROUT IN MUD

12-29-2011--My one fisherman limited on trout today and released some. We fished several areas but all the fish came from deep mud/shell/grass mixture.

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.