Hiding from the Wind

Kristine and Sage had a great trip with Capt. Mark Wright catching many redfish using cut mullet in the Mosquito Lagoon!

Another week of wind and cold here on central Florida’s east coast and I decided to hide at the house during most of the poor conditions.

We did make it out a couple of trips and by hiding from the wind as best as we could my anglers managed a handful of spotted seatrout and lower slot redfish by throwing Z-man Pop Shadz and Diezel Minnowz across winds swept points and across sand spots in backwater areas which still grow grass!

This day the bite was early and by ten o’clock we were headed to the hill. Talking to another group of anglers at the boat launch pretty much assured us we did as well as could be expected without using actual bait on this particular trip.

Speaking of “actual bait” my Friday Trip was dedicated to just that. A mom and son team was left high and dry with a cancelled offshore trip. I was happy to help them out of their predicament even though it meant starting pretty late in the morning. I met Kristine and Sage at ten o’clock in Titusville and we were on the water at ten-thirty. Right on cue the wind began to build…

I was pleasantly surprised to find the sheltered bay I frequent when the wind howls out of the north to be holding only one other boat. I was able to set up in my area of choice without encroaching upon the other vessel. We quickly drew first blood as a catfish gobbled up the mullet chunk lying on the bottom. Several catfish later we moved a bit deeper into the backwaters.

Eventually we hit pay dirt and the duo managed five feisty redfish including one over-slot fish! The double header pictured was fun to watch as Sage did his best to coach mom on how to fight a fish in shallow water. I guess he thought maybe mom hadn’t heard me as I coached HIM on the first two refish to come to the boat LOL!