Windy, cold northeaster conditions have stopped the boats and most pier anglers from venturing out to the wave tops this week but that is not where to be but to go down and jig off the bottom in a fast and irregular sweeping and dropping of your rod tip as the bite occurs on the drop. From baited, tipped jigs to casting small spoons in your favorite color, it is of the same sweeping motion that yields a sure fire wham bam fish on! The smokers are on again off again with a few caught right off the beaches of Casperson’s on surf gear under mini-balloons, Caught in Flight Kites and Aqua Gem Floats with live threadfins or needlefish. Boats trolling one, two or four ounce rudders with there favorite island lure or any which leads a bubble trail has been doing pretty well on the King Mackerels, with an occasional one pulled on to the boards in Venice, Florida, on their City Pier. If wind should shift slightly, and the temperatures not drop too sharply, this Halloween weekend ought to be hot on the Kings in Venice, Florida! As the winds change direction, the baits, like a magnet, change direction with them and make a move towards the next area of hard bottom in that direction. AS the wind blows from the north or south for a couple of days, the bait will follow the wind; a key point to know if angling from a vessel.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Kings, Cobia & Tripletail, Destination: Venice Florida
Looking to the diving birds at the front of the “T” at the end of the pier at Sharky’s in Venice, Florida, one will see anglers Trollying for big Kings and landing quite a few. When trolling across the front of the “T” be sure and stay at least 300 feet in front of the pier, 100 yards, for your safety and it is a law through a Venice City Ordinance to which the Marine patrol, Sherriff or Police will ticket. Cobia are a migrating right along side the smokers as of now and are seen more often than not in the Venice Pier area for there are a number of crab pods dropped out in pursuit of those prestigious stone crab claws. Pods and baits have leached the waters with fish oils for a couple of weeks now acting as a big box of chum. The best bets for Cobia are as the sun rises over the Venice reef to the north of the pier at about a quarter of a mile and a few hundred yards off the beach. Look for the pods and the Tripletail along with Cobia circling among the pods. Sight casting for Cobia is a real treat as you will actually see the bite occur as you make the strike and reel’er in! That sight-casting challenge is great as you pass each crab pod buoy for that is where you will find the Tripletail, in the shady side. Throttling down and approaching from the opposite side of the fish, pulling parallel in a drift, cast your live shrimp or small white bait under a float towards the drift side of the pod float. As your bait drifts by, wham, bam, “FISH ON!” ©
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
In Hot Pursuit; The Raw Claw-Stone’s
She built low to the ground and always in Hot Pursuit because this Stony is about her claw and her début was this morning. In search for the elusive crab”, Elusive you say? Yep, these shell fish are always on your baits when fishing or at a glance swimming by on the top of the water when you don't want them but try and more times than not, at this time of year they can be elusive and hard to catch! The other night we were trying to hook up with a big shark and couldn't keep our baits on the hook long, enough to get a bite, for the crabs were hungry. Therefore, today I brought the crab baskets and will try for a crab dinner and as an extra treat, I will be using my bridge net as a super sized crab catcher. It Ought to be hot tonight!
You can purchase crab baskets, string or bridge nets from your area dept. stores and they work well. They are easy on the pocket book too, with the exception of a bridge net, which start at around thirty bucks for the small ones and up to seventy for the large ridged ones as I use in Kingfish to Cobia/Snook hauling. Crab baskets, as are bridge nets are designed to lift your catch from the waters below bridges, docks or piers, much like a landing net. Baits range from left over fried chicken bones to fish scraps. I like using an oily fish like the Jack Carvel or mackerel carcasses and heads. The Jack, as is the Mack is easy to catch and you get to fish while crabbing; the better of two worlds! Jacks will hit shrimp, cut bait, or anything that fits in their mouths when feeding which, by the way seems to be all the time when schooling. They can be found in cuts, passes, along the beaches and in the bays. I catch more than not using jigs or Got-ch-A's. Butter flied out and attached with wire to the bottom of the crab basket, I am armed to catch crabs. You don’t need a large armada of baskets to catch crabs. For this outing, I am using two baskets, a bridge net filled with two pieces of Jack in the crab baskets, and three Macks tied in the middle of the bridge net. Lowered to the bottom and checked periododicly on fifteen-minute intervals. If no crabs within four checks or an hour, move the traps and repeat until your bucket is full.
The air temperature this morning is in the mid 70’s. No need for ice, just a bucket and with luck we will get some crabs. Dropping our baskets to the bottom next to the pile on out here on our city pier "Sharky's", I await for supper. This time of year along the Gulf coast crabs of all varieties can be caught. Spider crabs, hermits, stone claws, speckled or sand crabs and the infamous Blue Crabs tally up to what may be caught along with the occasional clown crab. All of these varieties may be caught today but we are only interested in supper; blue claw and sand crabs, though it is possible to capture a stone claw, they usually feed only at night. When catching the famous Florida Stone Claws, you must remember that you are only after its claws and the Stone Crab claws must measure at least 2 3/4-inches in length measured by a straight line from the elbow to the tip of the lower immovable finger and Stone Crab Claws are seasonal from October 15-May 15 here in Florida.
Clown crabs are considered ornamental, as if those one sees in a fish tank, spiders are funny looking and are considered bottom scavengers like their brothers the horseshoe crab. Blue crabs, sold the world over like Stone Claws are seasonal from May to November in Florida, though can be caught year round for recreational purposes with no females bearing eggs and a ten gallon limit per person, per day. Though I believe in 'limit your catch, don't catch your limit'!
Checking the net every five to ten minutes for crabs and to ensure you still have bait is my rule. When handling your catch be careful. The claws of the sand and blue crabs can cut you and are painful. The stone claws may not cut you but they can break your fingers. Be prudent when handling these critters. Best rule is to approach from behind by placing your foot (if you have shoes on) lightly on the back of its shell and pick up by grabbing both claws simultaneously. Place in bucket or ice for safekeeping. On the stone claw crab, if the claw is a keeper, twist counter clockwise until the entire joint and claw is removed with a quick jerk and be careful not to pull the claw off as to not injure the crab. They will grow a new one back to catch next year, so after removing its claw return the crab back to the water.
Stone crab claws are high on the list of favored Florida seafood. These crabs have the unusual ability to cast off their legs or pincers if caught by one leg or experience extreme temperature change. The separation always occurs at one of the joints to protect the crab from bleeding. During the life of the crab, the same appendage may be generated three or four times.
Florida law takes advantage of this ability of regeneration by making it illegal to harvest whole stone crabs. One or both of the very powerful black-tipped claws may be removed provided the length of the forearm measures 2 3/4 inches. If not, the claw must be left on the crab and the live stone crab returned to the water. If is also unlawful to remove claws from egg-bearing females.
It is a good idea not to put it back in where you have your traps or you will catch the same ones repeatedly. I walk them down to the other side and drop them back into the water.
Please note that when catching your own crabs it is illegal to catch female crabs during the summer months when they have eggs. How do you know the difference? Look at the abdomen on the underside of the crab. The female abdomen is dome shaped, like the U.S. capitol; the male abdomen looks like the Washington Monument.
OK, it is time to clean the crabs. Today’s outing only produced about two dozen sand crabs but what a dinner that will be for the family at home.
The crabs have to be alive and must be cleaned first! That means taking kitchen shears and cutting away the eyes and mouth. Then you must pull back and remove the top shell to expose the gills so they can be removed. Finally, you must pull away and remove the bottom tail flap, known as the apron. These steps are done to remove the parts that are inedible or are bitter and will impart unwanted flavors.
All that is left is to boil up my catch. The cleaned crabs and stone claws are cooked by placing them in boiling water and heating the water back to a boil. Total cooking time should be 7-8 minutes. Running cold water over the cooked claws is often suggested to insure the meat does not stick to the shells. Most people are purists when it comes to crab meat and prefer it cold or steamed only long enough to heat it and served with clarified butter or warm lemon butter.
Nutritional Information Stone Claws: 60 calories, 0 fat, 15 gm protein, 45 mg cholesterol, 300 mg sodium, and 4 gm calcium.
Nutritional Information sand & blue crabs: Calories 80, Calories from fat 10, Total fat 1g, Saturated fat 0g, Cholesterol 55mg, Total carbohydrate 0g, Protein 14g
And remember, crabbing is a great family sport where all can participate when inshore fishing in Florida waters…it keeps the little ones occupied so you can fish.
Bon-Appetite...."Fish On!"
You can purchase crab baskets, string or bridge nets from your area dept. stores and they work well. They are easy on the pocket book too, with the exception of a bridge net, which start at around thirty bucks for the small ones and up to seventy for the large ridged ones as I use in Kingfish to Cobia/Snook hauling. Crab baskets, as are bridge nets are designed to lift your catch from the waters below bridges, docks or piers, much like a landing net. Baits range from left over fried chicken bones to fish scraps. I like using an oily fish like the Jack Carvel or mackerel carcasses and heads. The Jack, as is the Mack is easy to catch and you get to fish while crabbing; the better of two worlds! Jacks will hit shrimp, cut bait, or anything that fits in their mouths when feeding which, by the way seems to be all the time when schooling. They can be found in cuts, passes, along the beaches and in the bays. I catch more than not using jigs or Got-ch-A's. Butter flied out and attached with wire to the bottom of the crab basket, I am armed to catch crabs. You don’t need a large armada of baskets to catch crabs. For this outing, I am using two baskets, a bridge net filled with two pieces of Jack in the crab baskets, and three Macks tied in the middle of the bridge net. Lowered to the bottom and checked periododicly on fifteen-minute intervals. If no crabs within four checks or an hour, move the traps and repeat until your bucket is full.
The air temperature this morning is in the mid 70’s. No need for ice, just a bucket and with luck we will get some crabs. Dropping our baskets to the bottom next to the pile on out here on our city pier "Sharky's", I await for supper. This time of year along the Gulf coast crabs of all varieties can be caught. Spider crabs, hermits, stone claws, speckled or sand crabs and the infamous Blue Crabs tally up to what may be caught along with the occasional clown crab. All of these varieties may be caught today but we are only interested in supper; blue claw and sand crabs, though it is possible to capture a stone claw, they usually feed only at night. When catching the famous Florida Stone Claws, you must remember that you are only after its claws and the Stone Crab claws must measure at least 2 3/4-inches in length measured by a straight line from the elbow to the tip of the lower immovable finger and Stone Crab Claws are seasonal from October 15-May 15 here in Florida.
Clown crabs are considered ornamental, as if those one sees in a fish tank, spiders are funny looking and are considered bottom scavengers like their brothers the horseshoe crab. Blue crabs, sold the world over like Stone Claws are seasonal from May to November in Florida, though can be caught year round for recreational purposes with no females bearing eggs and a ten gallon limit per person, per day. Though I believe in 'limit your catch, don't catch your limit'!
Checking the net every five to ten minutes for crabs and to ensure you still have bait is my rule. When handling your catch be careful. The claws of the sand and blue crabs can cut you and are painful. The stone claws may not cut you but they can break your fingers. Be prudent when handling these critters. Best rule is to approach from behind by placing your foot (if you have shoes on) lightly on the back of its shell and pick up by grabbing both claws simultaneously. Place in bucket or ice for safekeeping. On the stone claw crab, if the claw is a keeper, twist counter clockwise until the entire joint and claw is removed with a quick jerk and be careful not to pull the claw off as to not injure the crab. They will grow a new one back to catch next year, so after removing its claw return the crab back to the water.
Stone crab claws are high on the list of favored Florida seafood. These crabs have the unusual ability to cast off their legs or pincers if caught by one leg or experience extreme temperature change. The separation always occurs at one of the joints to protect the crab from bleeding. During the life of the crab, the same appendage may be generated three or four times.
Florida law takes advantage of this ability of regeneration by making it illegal to harvest whole stone crabs. One or both of the very powerful black-tipped claws may be removed provided the length of the forearm measures 2 3/4 inches. If not, the claw must be left on the crab and the live stone crab returned to the water. If is also unlawful to remove claws from egg-bearing females.
It is a good idea not to put it back in where you have your traps or you will catch the same ones repeatedly. I walk them down to the other side and drop them back into the water.
Please note that when catching your own crabs it is illegal to catch female crabs during the summer months when they have eggs. How do you know the difference? Look at the abdomen on the underside of the crab. The female abdomen is dome shaped, like the U.S. capitol; the male abdomen looks like the Washington Monument.
OK, it is time to clean the crabs. Today’s outing only produced about two dozen sand crabs but what a dinner that will be for the family at home.
The crabs have to be alive and must be cleaned first! That means taking kitchen shears and cutting away the eyes and mouth. Then you must pull back and remove the top shell to expose the gills so they can be removed. Finally, you must pull away and remove the bottom tail flap, known as the apron. These steps are done to remove the parts that are inedible or are bitter and will impart unwanted flavors.
All that is left is to boil up my catch. The cleaned crabs and stone claws are cooked by placing them in boiling water and heating the water back to a boil. Total cooking time should be 7-8 minutes. Running cold water over the cooked claws is often suggested to insure the meat does not stick to the shells. Most people are purists when it comes to crab meat and prefer it cold or steamed only long enough to heat it and served with clarified butter or warm lemon butter.
Nutritional Information Stone Claws: 60 calories, 0 fat, 15 gm protein, 45 mg cholesterol, 300 mg sodium, and 4 gm calcium.
Nutritional Information sand & blue crabs: Calories 80, Calories from fat 10, Total fat 1g, Saturated fat 0g, Cholesterol 55mg, Total carbohydrate 0g, Protein 14g
And remember, crabbing is a great family sport where all can participate when inshore fishing in Florida waters…it keeps the little ones occupied so you can fish.
Bon-Appetite...."Fish On!"
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Venice Kings; A Real Jim Dandy
King Mackerel, Cero Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel
Photo by Thisha Anderson
“Kingfish are hardcore predators, so moving baits really get them going. Keep them fresh and active is the ticket to successes as we slow trolled the beachhead for that first screaming bump.
Hard bottoms equal tails of sizable kings off Venice beach in a Jim Dandy of a deal while trolling for smokers ahead of the pack. Lever-drag reels are easiest to use, with a 200lb trace at least three yards in length, attached to twelve-inch thirty-eight pound test wire leader. The wire is there because of the razor sharp teeth on a kingfish. Wired to the 10/0 circle hook is a smaller 6/0 circle hook we call a “stinger”. Circle hooks must be used now when angling for Kings in a boat for they are considered Pelagic and have a new set of rules about them. The wired 10/0 live-bait hook set up also is connected by a ball-bearing swivel. This may all seem like overkill, but even with this gear, I have lost fish. Kingfish will turn up when it suits them. Like big sharks, they feed when hungry. However, one very definite pattern I have seen through the years of angling for Texas to Florida King Mackerels is that the prime time to be on the water is around low tide. I’d guess around 70% of kings we see and hook is present during this period of falling water. Combining a midday low tide, away from a full moon, is a recipe for success in catching smoker to schoolies kings. Full moons are great for bass fishing and werewolves but really suck in the catch department in saltwater angling, period!
When slow trolling, almost all the baits are hooked the same way. Kingfish candy or Bluerunners get the main hook through their nose. This hook is wired to a piece of number four or five leader wire, the stinger attached to the other hook of choice and attached the top back of the fish or as some prefer just to dangle. Top speeds will range between 1.5 and 2 knots, a brisk walk, at best. Slow trolls are best in keeping your baits alive longer but all will drown eventually and be dead! Save them all for later for as you run out of live baits and have but only dead, one needs only to speed up the boat and dive the baits deeper by use of egg weights above the leaders or on planers or Nose cones and trolling skirts. They usually come in colors of white, chartreuse, pink, yellow and they act to attract the mackerels. No smokers as of Sunday but we sure caught the schoolies fever at around forty or so CPR’ed not to mention the hundreds of Spanish that followed and cut us off all daylong. The great thing about it was we were using straws and yard flies for baits only this time we had a number one Eagle Claw hook inside the yarn bunch. Loads of fun, lots of action and there it goes again…”FISH ON!”
Monday, October 13, 2008
Eco-Friendly Angling; Yarn Flies
For years I have caught toothy fish with nylon stockings, drinking straws and knitting yarn because they are cheap to use and easy to make on the spot lures. The drinking straws work on almost any species of fish where as the stockings only on those with teeth but both are not eco-friendly as one is plastic and the other nylon, both lasing hundreds if not more, years to degrade if ever. Yarn on the other hand is rope, twine and is esuriently, biodegradable and hook free if you wish to fish that way making it kid friendly! Yarn Flies are with a hooks optional clause but try without and just see how many mackerels you will still catch. Add strips of flash as in foil or spray with glue and add silver glitter; the colors are endless and the price is unbelievable. You won’t know until you try it, so what do you have to lose. Other people in other parts of the world and country use this for Pike to Musky like in this video on how to make such a lure. Try it, have fun and “FISH ON!”
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Fish Tails; Kings vs. Spanish
Fish Tails; the Difference between a King and a Spanish mackerel
A Kingfish by any other name is a summons or even jail time it your that stupid. The first king mackerel have appeared with most of them falling within the 10 to 20 pound class, and a few smokers at 48 inches today, caught on spoons to trolleys with live suspended baits. Ladies, Jack mackerels, Jack Crevalles and large Threadfins were the choice live baits of the T head, with Threads taking in monster twenty inch plus Spanish and the Jacks as prime for the Kings, both schoolies and smokers. Rolling Tarpon a plenty but no hook ups today. The schoolies were living up to their names as they were congregated in schools of 50 to 100 or more as they boiled the pods of baits about and around the boards of the Venice Pier at Sharky’s in Florida. The inshore waters were black with bait and the pier loaded with anglers catching plenty a fish and not a clue as to what it was they were catching other than it was a fish or maybe a mackerel; think God it did not have wings or they might have thought it was a bird. I even heard one Father tell his son it was to small to be a Kingfish. Ehhh? I wondered what he was when he was born, a Gnome.
On my son, Edwin’s, last cast with a silver cast master, jigging along at a medium retrieve using a Pflueger loaded with Big Game Trilene Blue 12 pound test, he hung on to a fish which seemed to pull in an odd fashion. Drag pulling mamma it was at twenty-one inches at the fork, this Cero Mackerel was not caught on his lure but on another. Somehow, his hook had slid through the eye of the barrel swivel attached to a leader, half-ounce weight and Clark Spoon with fish attached. What are the odds? I took that same Clark Spoon, attached to my line and casted out this Clark Spoon, ripping it in across the surface of the lapping northwestern waves as a monster of a fish slammed the spoon and peeled out about 150 yards of my twelve-pound test fluorocarbon. My Pflueger reel and Ugly Stik bowed in agony as the line sang a tune in the wind. Twenty minutes later Edwin, my son, dropped the bridge net, and we brought up a 26 inch at the fork Schoolie kingfish. The person standing next to me said wow nice Spanish Mackerel, I did not think they got that big. You know you have to take a hunters safety course in order to hunt. They ought to make one take a fishing etiquettes and I.D. test before allowing one to go fishing, if I had it my way!
You know folks if a Game Warden had been present today Edwin and I would have been the only people left on the pier, just about, with the exception of a couple of friends I know who also know what their doing, like Barry Garmen. The rest would be in county, waiting bail on Monday, maybe reading the rules and regulations on Florida Saltwater Fishing Laws. Especially the picture pages on the differences between the different mackerels and yes the do come small!
Fish Tails 101
It is all in the tails folks, from the dorsal to the tail and you too can tell the difference. Some of you experts say it is in the color or spots and sometimes that works but sometimes all mackerel look similar and it can be confusing even to an expert just by judging it spots. All fish have a lateral line on them. Some are colored in scale others in an actual line, like the Mackerels. By looking at this line, you can save yourself the embarrassment of a ticket and be an expert too. King Mackerels have a break or sudden drop in their lateral line in the shape of a slanted “L”. Spanish and all the other mackerels have either a wavy or dropping lateral line with no slanted “L” shape. In addition, Kingfish minimal slot is 24 inches at the fork to keep with a possession limit of two per person. All other mackerels are minimal slot 12” at the fork, with 15 fish in possession per person. Stupid is not looking for that slanted “L”. “FISH ON!”
A Kingfish by any other name is a summons or even jail time it your that stupid. The first king mackerel have appeared with most of them falling within the 10 to 20 pound class, and a few smokers at 48 inches today, caught on spoons to trolleys with live suspended baits. Ladies, Jack mackerels, Jack Crevalles and large Threadfins were the choice live baits of the T head, with Threads taking in monster twenty inch plus Spanish and the Jacks as prime for the Kings, both schoolies and smokers. Rolling Tarpon a plenty but no hook ups today. The schoolies were living up to their names as they were congregated in schools of 50 to 100 or more as they boiled the pods of baits about and around the boards of the Venice Pier at Sharky’s in Florida. The inshore waters were black with bait and the pier loaded with anglers catching plenty a fish and not a clue as to what it was they were catching other than it was a fish or maybe a mackerel; think God it did not have wings or they might have thought it was a bird. I even heard one Father tell his son it was to small to be a Kingfish. Ehhh? I wondered what he was when he was born, a Gnome.
On my son, Edwin’s, last cast with a silver cast master, jigging along at a medium retrieve using a Pflueger loaded with Big Game Trilene Blue 12 pound test, he hung on to a fish which seemed to pull in an odd fashion. Drag pulling mamma it was at twenty-one inches at the fork, this Cero Mackerel was not caught on his lure but on another. Somehow, his hook had slid through the eye of the barrel swivel attached to a leader, half-ounce weight and Clark Spoon with fish attached. What are the odds? I took that same Clark Spoon, attached to my line and casted out this Clark Spoon, ripping it in across the surface of the lapping northwestern waves as a monster of a fish slammed the spoon and peeled out about 150 yards of my twelve-pound test fluorocarbon. My Pflueger reel and Ugly Stik bowed in agony as the line sang a tune in the wind. Twenty minutes later Edwin, my son, dropped the bridge net, and we brought up a 26 inch at the fork Schoolie kingfish. The person standing next to me said wow nice Spanish Mackerel, I did not think they got that big. You know you have to take a hunters safety course in order to hunt. They ought to make one take a fishing etiquettes and I.D. test before allowing one to go fishing, if I had it my way!
You know folks if a Game Warden had been present today Edwin and I would have been the only people left on the pier, just about, with the exception of a couple of friends I know who also know what their doing, like Barry Garmen. The rest would be in county, waiting bail on Monday, maybe reading the rules and regulations on Florida Saltwater Fishing Laws. Especially the picture pages on the differences between the different mackerels and yes the do come small!
Fish Tails 101
It is all in the tails folks, from the dorsal to the tail and you too can tell the difference. Some of you experts say it is in the color or spots and sometimes that works but sometimes all mackerel look similar and it can be confusing even to an expert just by judging it spots. All fish have a lateral line on them. Some are colored in scale others in an actual line, like the Mackerels. By looking at this line, you can save yourself the embarrassment of a ticket and be an expert too. King Mackerels have a break or sudden drop in their lateral line in the shape of a slanted “L”. Spanish and all the other mackerels have either a wavy or dropping lateral line with no slanted “L” shape. In addition, Kingfish minimal slot is 24 inches at the fork to keep with a possession limit of two per person. All other mackerels are minimal slot 12” at the fork, with 15 fish in possession per person. Stupid is not looking for that slanted “L”. “FISH ON!”
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Sprits and Straws and Mackerels OH MY!
As we approached the beach, it had that look of dead floating seaweed awash on the lapping waves, yet none was sticking to the sand on the back flow of the wash. Upon closer review of the waters edge, revealed acres of greenies to threadfin herring abound as far as the eye could see! A black line of batfishes against a mixed greenish muddied sea, diving seagulls as in numbers like out of Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and many a mackerel breaking the surface in giving chase for a mixed and fulfilling dinner. Pulling out a Johnston ‘Sprite’ my son Edwin whipped it out across the diving birds and to the edge of this migrating pod of bait on the move. Bam on the first skip as not even a rotation of a crank happened and it was “FISH ON!” as his Pflueger spools drag screamed in an agony of despair. “Twenty-one inch Spanish at the fork, not bad for my first cast eh Dad,” Edwin exclaimed. “Wonder how many more I’ll get cause it is the only one we have with us today, maybe they will take a straw, is that what your going to use?” He was probably right as I chunked out a Gotcha in a smirk and said, “Lucky You, Watch the ole man work!” and work I did as I was changing lures like they change tires at Daytona and still looking for that first nudge much less a real hit and fish. Hmmm…he did say straws right. On that note, I too was now in catch up mode to Ed, as I tied a Jansik onto two #1 hooks and rigged up a pair of straws… Start calling your friends Ed and I will call mom to go to the store, looks like a fish fry tonight. In two and a half hours, we bagged out and headed for the house as the sharkers were heading out to the setting sun on the “T”. Bet it is a good one tonight but then again I will hear about it tomorrow and let you all know the rest of the story...
Angling the skinnies of Lemon bay via kayak to getting the legs wet the bite on the flats was not exclusive at all this Saturday morning. Spanish from last night out on the pier at Sharky’s to a hit on redfish, trout, snook and jack, all in a cooperative mood to feast on my soft crank baits or live greenies under a Cajun bobber. A true smorgasbord of fish this week and smiles for all, including the Offshore groups where I have heard reports of big Bonita’s to bunker sized Blues mixed with large Schoolie Kings and a mix of marauders out of the Inlet to New Pass from Grouper to Scamp. Sharks in an abundance around three miles out with yellowtail, lane and mangrove a bit further to the west from New pass at around thirty-six miles to the spot of enlightenment.
…”FISH ON!”
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