Fish on!

Fish on!

Report Date: March 18, 2007

What a change in more than just the
weather. The fishing has changed big time there are a
lot of fish moving out of the rivers this time

of the
year. We have days where they don’t want to eat right
away. But over all I must say we have had some of the
best fishing that I have seen in a long time. It’s
getting to be the time of the year where you better
book those trips now.

We will start with the Snook fish this has had it’s
days where it has been a little slower but it is
fixing to break loose. I do not remember the last time
I saw so many nice fish well I didn’t look back but I
probably said the same thing last year. But there is a
lot of nice fish! We have had some very good days
where we have caught some good numbers of fish. Most
of the fishing that we have been doing has been in and
around the mouths of the rivers. These fish are moving
their way to the bays and are very hungry when they
are doing so. The biggest factor that we have had has
been the water temp if it is much below 70 degrees the
fish don’t want to bite very good. Some of the days
you might have to look around a little for that warmer
water so you can get the big one to bite.

If we have had any trouble catching Snook we have
made up for it with the Red fish. There are some very
big fish starting to show up with this warmer weather.
Sometimes it is a little tough to get to them
without poling a long way and being very quiet. I
think this has been one of the biggest problems with
the Red fish they have been fished for a lot over
the past few years during the Red fish tournaments.
One hundred or more boats fishing in the same area
make the fish spook a little easier. But we have had
no trouble catching a few fish each trip just
sometimes working a little harder at it. I can give
you a little advise be as quiet as you can when
positioning your boat to catch the big one. We had
some great Red fish last week as you can see in the
picture.

Trout have been doing a whole lot of moving around.
One day you will catch a mess of them and the next day
they are gone. But I can say this much the Trout that
we have been catching have had some good size. This
time of the year most of the Trout that we catch are
around the areas where you find the bait in the bay.

You aren’t going to believe the next thing, the

Tarpon have shown up in the bay. I wouldn’t believe it
if I did see it myself. We managed to get out and do a
little Tarpon fishing the other morning with a lot of
success. We managed to hook the first fish within
seconds of throwing the first bait out and were able
to boat this great fish. It was a fish that was about
80 lbs. It was a very nice fish and we did manage to
hook a few more fish that were much bigger.

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