How about that!

How about that!

Report Date: January 1, 2004

Let’s see, I will start with sorry that I’ve been a slacker on these reports lately. It is not because I have not been fishing or that the fishing has not been good, it’s me. I had a little computer trouble,

among other things, but to say no more, I’m a slacker! But to get back to the fishing, it has been a pretty good mix of all kind of species.

I will start with the Trout, Snook, Red fish, and Tarpon, however, if the bite is slow, we have managed to make a day out of other types of fish like Trout, Mackerel, Snapper, Lady fish, Jacks, Sharks, and Blue fish, just a few of all the different species. We are finding most of these fish around the big schools of bait that are spread out in the bay. The key is to find some of this bait on the grass flats, the edge where the grass drops off into the sand is the best. Anchor on the edge of the flats, fishing into the

edge of the sand, get plenty of bait so that you can chum these fish into a frenzy.

Next, the Snook fishing has been good, as well. On the high tides, these fish have been way up in the trees. Like the Trout and all kinds of fish, you want to have plenty of bait so that you can chum these fish up and get them to feed as well. On the lower tides, these Snook fall off the edges of the flats where they come straight from the trees. I can say one thing, if you have trouble catching the great Snook and you know you are on fish, drop the leader size and maybe the hook size. Sometimes this will increase the bite. We have had some nice fish this past week and a half. The biggest fish was about 30 inches. I won’t even bring up the big one that got away!

Then, the Red fish, this bite is on one day and then tough the next. But on all the trips, we have managed to catch a few fish and other days, get them into a frenzy. We did end up with some good fish this past week in a few areas where we did not think these fish would be, but that is why they call it fishing. The biggest Red fish was 32 inches. This was a great fish on the light tackle. We caught a few that were just under this, as well. When you get one of these Bull Reds on the light tackle, it is a lot of fun.

Last but not least, we’ve got the Tarpon. This has been a lot of fun. We are still doing most of the fishing up in the river with the light tackle. Most of the fish we are catching are 15-40 lbs, which on the light tackle are a lot of fun. When you get a 30 lb Tarpon on 10 lbs test it’s just like catching a 100 lb fish on 30 lb test. It is not easy to land one of these wild fish, it seems like the smaller the Tarpon the more they jump. This is when you loose most of the fish, its to the bow, or the lack of the bow! But as you can see in the pictures it been a lot of fun!

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