Nilyn enjoyed the battle of this over-slot black drum!
This will be my final report from Titusville. From now on I’ll be chartering and reporting from the Fort Pierce area. My new fishing grounds will extend roughly from Sebastian Inlet to Jensen Beach. I hope you’ll enjoy the reports from my new venue!
Mark slammed this day with trout, redfish and black drum!
What a week we had as I wrapped up my Titusville schedule. Clients caught plenty of spotted seatrout; in fact we caught so many quality trout we lost count each trip. Topwater walking plugs were by far the best option for upper and over slot trout, some redfish and a few snook, too. For clients unable to “walk the dog,” we simply tossed three inch Z-Man Minnowz or four inch Diezel Minnowz. Experimenting with retrieval speeds kept us catching throughout the mornings and into the noon hour.
Nice trout for Tony and his Skitterwalk!
Most areas in the north Indian River have pretty clean water and basic colors all produced great catches. Finding areas riddled with fingerling mullet was a key element in staying busy, though we did catch a few fish where mullet numbers were relatively low.
Tony’s personal best backwater snook!
One trip we managed to stay busy with a dozen pods of black drum. Dead shrimp out performed live shrimp by a wide margin on this day, and I have a feeling cut mullet might have caught even more, given the “Big Uglies” were terrorizing schools of mullet like they were redfish! Mark and Nilyn had a ball! Tony fished a couple of mornings with me and flat-out slayed the seatrout on his bone colored Skitterwalk. A few redfish also ate the walking plug and a dandy snook inhaled it as Tony worked the lure through a shoreline shadow!
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