Grab Your Partners Two by Two, Ladies and Trout the Duce C Due; Onward tournament CCA and Redfish angler’s doe c doe, the toe to toe! The cool to cold weather action has brought on a much-needed change to both fresh and saltwater alike in both feeding patterns as well, strikes to bites as well! I find wither angling Lake Okeechobee to the flats of Lemon Bay to the Harbor, angling with a single hooked spoon by itself, under a Carolina Regina knocker rigging or a bobble is a deadly combination in catching redfish to largemouth bass, kings to Spanish, cobia to tarpon and dancing ladies to dip diving trout. Single-hook spoons have been ideal lures for fall fishing throughout Southwest Florida since the last arrivals and departures of our fall hurricanes. Almost all game fish, from redfish to king mackerel, strike minnow-imitating spoons to shinny mirrored like plugs and jerk baits with reckless abandonment to their own safety. Toothy fish, like the mackerels, rarely cut a metal spoon off a line. Out-of-season fish, like spotted Seatrout (November-December) and snook (December-February) rarely are seriously injured by single-hook lures and in general never fall off or are foul hooked as is the case with a Gotcha or similar lure or plug. Spoons dictate a cutting of the edge technology for all generations as they can never be improved, just imitated, casting through stiff fall breezes with ease, trolling with fish-catching flash that’s hard to beat and hook up ratio’s to far exceed those of its revivals the treble. Speaking of Lake Okeechobee, them Big Mouths were over heard a bragging about not being caught somewhere around the Rita Point Island area around em weeds and reeds. They say they cain’t be caught but they sure be tempted by them frogs skittered through the grass, mmm, mmm. Makes ya ungary! Crickets are the tickets for all else with minnows fallen a fast in-between back up baits for bass to specks but for this ole boy it is back to the bays; just thought I’d bring it up because I use to fish with Roland back in the day every once in a blue Sunday. Now it is rare to none but you never know, we just might go back to church some day.
