Not cold enough!

Not cold enough!

Report Date: November 21, 2006

Here we are with a little colder weather. Winter is coming that is it might me here a little early if the weather stays like it has been this past week. But of course we have still been out there catching some great fish. When you get this little colder weather the fish do a lot of moving around and different feeding patterns.

We are going to start this report with something a little different because we hav

e not talked much about them over the past few weeks and we have started catching a few just about each trip. The great Flounder, we have been catching a few just about each trip with the cooler water temp. but I can say most of them we have been catching have lacked no size I mean a door mat this is what a lot of guys call a very big Flounder. When the water temp drops the Flounder start moving up into the bays. Some of those cold morning when you can’t get some of the fish to eat is when we have had the most luck with these fish right from the start. This is mostly because the Flounder like very few fish do not care what the water temp is, if you get the bait in front of them they will eat it.

Then we will go to the Snook fishing man oh man it got really good over the past few weeks but this cold front put a little damper on it. The water

temp drop too much where they will not feed, usually if the water temp is over 65 they will eat but it dropped to about 55-60. It is not far off so if we can get a few days of warmer weather it will be right back to catching them again. Well that is catching them on live bait. We can catch them on artificial but I have not had to many people that have been interested in fishing with lures yet. But like I said get the water temp to come up a few degrees and we will be back in action.

Then it goes to the Red fish. These fish like the Snook do a little moving around but when it gets cold they get a little harder to catch but they will still bite on a cold day. We had a lot of great fish for the Red fish this past week and I think they will stay around for a little while. On some of the colder mornings if we can’t get the Red fish to eat the live bait we have either used shrimp or lures like jigs. Over the past few years when the water temp drops we start using a lot more shrimp as bait this is because the Red fish are moving a little slower and with the shrimp they are easer to catch. We also catch a lot of the fish on jigs and lures

during the winter it usually just takes a little work to work the jig just right to get them to eat it.

Then not to forget them we have had some great big schools of Jacks hanging around which if you are looking for one of those fish to give you a fight of a life time these Jacks will do it!
As you can see in the picture this young lady had a heck of a time getting this fish to the boat.

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