Just big enough!

Just big enough!

Report Date: August 16, 2007

The bite has been different every day, but I guess that is why they call it fishing. Some days it was more like catching an every day it was a different type of fish. This week I can’t say which fish we caught the most of. Believe it or not we even had a day where the Tarpon bite was going crazy where we managed to jump a lot of fish. The other days it was the Snook bite, then Red fish, or maybe Trout. Every day it was one of these great fish that we got biting like it was going out of style. Of course with the summer time weather most of the showers have been later in the afternoon.

I will start this week out with the Red fish which we haven’t been doing a whole lot of talking about. The biggest reason is because we haven’t done much fishing for them. But this past weekend we had

a fishing tournament that was Red fish and Trout for the inshore species. We managed to catch a bunch of both. Talk about Red fish man we caught our fair share of fish. There were four of us in the boat and for over an hour at least one of us had a fish on the whole time. There were several times that we all had a fish on at once that was a little crazy. The biggest trouble that we had was that the Red fish had to be slot size fish most of them were all over 29 inches, the biggest around 34. It was a great school of Red fish.

We did manage to get a few 26 ½ -27 inch fish the to of the slot but the best weight we could get was 7 ½ we had two that were right there. We would have had 2nd place but there was another boat that had a red fish that was the same size and he weighed his fish in before us so we got pushed out. Then we have the Trout fishing which is really good but like I said in the last report the size has been the most trouble. We have been catching fish every where we go but for the most part the fish are 12-14 inches just under size. We did manage to catch a few bigger fish but we had to put our time in to catch them for the tournament. However it was worth it, we managed to catch one Trout that was 24 plus inches 5 lbs it was a gator Trout. This fish managed to win the biggest Trout of the tournament.

Tarpon, well we have had a lot of fun with these fish. I mean to tell you the bite has been on some days better then others but every day we have managed to jump a fish or two. Most of the fish are15-50 lbs, a lot of fun on the light tackle.
On more then one trip we got the little Tarpon into a little frenzy. This was a lot of fun because you don’t get to see the Tarpon doing this much. You will get days where you can catch a few or jump a few but I mean to have a bite where as soon as you throw the bait in the water you have a fish on it was short lived each day but it was really neat.

Then it comes to the Snook. The big factor with these fish has been the tide like I have said in the past. A few of the days that we have started with these we have caught good numbers but most of the mornings that we have fished it hasn’t been for Snook so it has been a little tougher. The biggest reason is because the tide right now has been going out first thing in the morning the Snook bite is on. Then it turns to come in and the Snook push to the trees. We can still catch a number of fish but you have to do more moving around. We have also had a lot of luck in the later afternoon fishing other then the weather and that is because of the tide change as well. It’s been when the tide has been going out for awhile and the fish have managed to push off the edges of the flats where you can find big numbers of fish.

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