If there was ever a “week from hell” this week was it! We were warned of impending bad weather. We prepared for it. It turned out to be a mini hurricane! Waves in our part of the lagoon were 2-3’ with the occasional 5’ on Wednesday. It blew for two days with 50+ gusts. Early in the week there were some decent catches of mostly trout and a few pompano, but by Tuesday the bite in our neighborhood had basically shut down.

Outside of some active trout on the flats on Friday, there is not much to report this week — sorry! By Saturday bait fish had not returned to the churned-up water. Shrimp and salted clams are producing some catches because natural food sources are scarce at the moment. It will improve into next week, it always does! We are getting decent size pinfish to offer up to the snook, but our charter captain is having to travel to find them. Let’s see what April brings….