Capt. John
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Capt. John, Pensacola Fl, -Blackwater Inshore Light Tackle Fun., Trout, Redfish, 2-17-2012
Hello anglers, just wanted to say hi, sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I'll try to post more this season.
The new fishing season is about to kick off.
Here is a report from last week.
Blackwater Inshore Light Tackle Fun.
Had a trip today and it was a tough one; funny how one day is so much different than the other. I had three excited anglers on the boat from the Lake Erie area, Jim, his brother Andy and Andy’s wife Lucy. They were avid walleye fishermen and fisherwoman and wanted to do some upper bay inshore fishing. We hit the water around 7:30am, and I noticed the water was a little lower than usual for low tide in this area.
I planned on fishing some areas that had a little deeper water around 6 –10 ft first and then move onto the flats when the tide started to come in as I knew the fish would start to move up on the flats as the water got deeper. Our first spot was near the mouth of a creek off the main river.
I had hit this area last Wednesday and the fish were staged near the drop-offs. It turned out to be a good choice, as we managed to catch 5 rat reds and 4 trout in the 14-16” range. We played around this area for a little bit and moved on. I wanted to check out a flat where I’ve spotted some reds cruising the shallows and was hoping we’d have a shot at sight fishing a few reds. Unfortunately, the reds weren’t there so we moved to spot three and this is where Lucy landed the biggest fish of the day, which was not a red, but a whopper 21” trout that looked and felt pretty heavy; I figured it was around 3.5 –4 lbs.
I had my clients tossing a variety of baits today since the fish were a bit picky. The three Gulp baits were 5” Lime Tiger jerk-shads, 6.5” Camo jerk-shads, and a 3” White/Chartreuse Berkley Gulp shrimp; all rigged on a ¼ oz jig head. The bait that Lucy landed her gator trout on was MirrOlure’s Paul Brown suspending twitch bait. I used these lures last spring and they always seem to do the trick. We hit a lot of areas today and most of the areas had fish, but we had to keep changing up our presentation. It wasn’t until our last area where we really got into the speck bite, but again it was 12 –14” trout with only a few keepers.
Lucy’s trout still ended up being the trophy fish of the trip.
We caught a good number of trout with about 8 reds today. The weather cooperated and we didn’t see any rain. Had a fun group today, and everyone was a good sport. They plan on coming back down in November, and I can’t wait to show them what the fall redfish run is all about!
Wish we would have caught a few bigger fish this outing, but we’ll just have to give it another go next trip.
Till the next adventure
Capt. John
Hello anglers, just wanted to say hi, sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I'll try to post more this season.
The new fishing season is about to kick off.
Here is a report from last week.
Blackwater Inshore Light Tackle Fun.
Had a trip today and it was a tough one; funny how one day is so much different than the other. I had three excited anglers on the boat from the Lake Erie area, Jim, his brother Andy and Andy’s wife Lucy. They were avid walleye fishermen and fisherwoman and wanted to do some upper bay inshore fishing. We hit the water around 7:30am, and I noticed the water was a little lower than usual for low tide in this area.
I planned on fishing some areas that had a little deeper water around 6 –10 ft first and then move onto the flats when the tide started to come in as I knew the fish would start to move up on the flats as the water got deeper. Our first spot was near the mouth of a creek off the main river.
I had hit this area last Wednesday and the fish were staged near the drop-offs. It turned out to be a good choice, as we managed to catch 5 rat reds and 4 trout in the 14-16” range. We played around this area for a little bit and moved on. I wanted to check out a flat where I’ve spotted some reds cruising the shallows and was hoping we’d have a shot at sight fishing a few reds. Unfortunately, the reds weren’t there so we moved to spot three and this is where Lucy landed the biggest fish of the day, which was not a red, but a whopper 21” trout that looked and felt pretty heavy; I figured it was around 3.5 –4 lbs.
I had my clients tossing a variety of baits today since the fish were a bit picky. The three Gulp baits were 5” Lime Tiger jerk-shads, 6.5” Camo jerk-shads, and a 3” White/Chartreuse Berkley Gulp shrimp; all rigged on a ¼ oz jig head. The bait that Lucy landed her gator trout on was MirrOlure’s Paul Brown suspending twitch bait. I used these lures last spring and they always seem to do the trick. We hit a lot of areas today and most of the areas had fish, but we had to keep changing up our presentation. It wasn’t until our last area where we really got into the speck bite, but again it was 12 –14” trout with only a few keepers.
Lucy’s trout still ended up being the trophy fish of the trip.
We caught a good number of trout with about 8 reds today. The weather cooperated and we didn’t see any rain. Had a fun group today, and everyone was a good sport. They plan on coming back down in November, and I can’t wait to show them what the fall redfish run is all about!
Wish we would have caught a few bigger fish this outing, but we’ll just have to give it another go next trip.
Till the next adventure
Capt. John
