redfish

I was up earlier than normal fully motivated to let some fish know that we weren’t playing games today. Then I got to the boat dock…feel free to write this down. The letter “I,” the letter “D,” the number “10” and the letter “T.” After donkeying about trying to figure out why I was ready to donate my motor to the sandy bottom, I realized that turning the fuel line off last night was the culprit. Yeah, that guy.

After finally getting out and working the mouths of some mangrove openings with Gulp in grey crawshrimp — not sure what that is called — I started to plug some small snook ranging in size from who cares to mention to 22.” Caught at least 10 in an hour. Seeing bait getting busted in several areas on the mangrove line I went with a yozuri 3D pencil. Nothing. Not even a boil. Switched back to the crawshrimp, and hit a nice 21.5” red and called it a day.

Pompano fans should know that they are catching a healthy amount of these off of the south end of the Wabasso Bridge. Stopped through there several times over the last week and today. Jigs mostly in tipped. You’ll know if they are there, because the rails have been stacked with people.