GREAT DAY ON THE WATER

11-29-2014--Today's family group of four kept their limit of 20 black drum, 2 nice trout and one redfish.  After limiting on black drum they tried to catch more redfish but the black drum kept taking the bait.  They released about 15 additional good sized black drum.  The one redfish keeper would have made any tournament angler proud.  It measured 27 1/2 inches and weighted 8 pounds.  

ACRES OF OVER-SIZED BLACK DRUM

 

 11-28-2014--Today started slow with no keepers till nearly noon when the water warmed up.  We came across a huge school of over-sized black drum.  They caught and released one that measured 38 inches and another that measured 36 inches.  They had two more on but one broke off and the other pulled off.

FLOUNDER

 11-3-2014--Today's two guests caught eight black drum, one almost 28 inch redfish, two flounder, one trout and one sheepshead in addition to lots of small fish.  The man pictured with the redfish caught 5 keeper fish on his first six casts into one small area on our second stop.  These included redfish, trout, sheepshead, black drum and flounder

PILE OF FISH

11-1-2014--Guests today were a family of four.  They kept me very busy

netting and unhooking fish.  In the process of limiting on black drum they caught countless undersized reds.  One of the boys caught his biggest ever fish; a 27 inch redfish.  At the end of the day they had boxed 20 black drum, 5 or 6 sheepsheads and the one good redfish. They took home 54 fillets for future meals.

REDS AND DRUM FEED WITH A NORTH WIND

10-30-2014--What a difference a day makes.  Yesterday, I had four anglers for a half day and we could see large schools of black drum floating by but they wouldn't bite anything we could think of to offer them.  Today's full day trip was the opposite--we couldn't see the fish but they bit constantly.  We started in a back lake drain out of the north wind.  Right away one of the two anglers tied into an over-sized redfish.  After the battle and a picture the red was released.  Next the other angler immediately landed a good sized black drum. It was non stop after that.  It was good that they both were experienced fishermen who could bait their  own hooks etc, because I could barely keep up with netting fish and getting bait out of the live well.   They had their limits of black drum well before mid morning but we kept fishing the same area hoping for reds and trout.  In addition to about a dozen extra keeper drum which were released they got one mid slot sized red and two large sheepsheads.  A large flounder and a 17-18 inch trout were hooked but got off before getting to the net.  Additionally, many smaller fish were caught and released.  

BIG DRUM

10-27-2014