Hit the docks and mangroves around Harbour City around 3:00am. I could see snook and trout stacking up around almost all structures. Started throwing Z-Man pop shadz, the smaller snook were super aggrsssive and I […]

Hit the island houses early this morning around 4:30am. Lined up on the east side of the island and worked the dock with a top dog. Almost every cast got exploded on. Set a PB on trout with a solid 27.5ish. Hit a slam within an hour. Bait was getting crashed everywhere. Landed several slot to over slot snook, a few jacks, trout, and some nice keeper size reds. Top water, gold DOA shrimp with the rattle and tipped with shrimp fish bites landed the reds, snook on top, doa shrimp, and DOA white paddle tails.

What is a 1:45er you ask? It’s those odd balls you see at the club right before closing. You know that chick who has thrown two sheets to the wind and is just waiting for […]

Knowing that the ramps would be slammed, the spots would be pressured, and my time on the water was limited to a few hours, I decided to roll out without sleep at around 5:15am. Hit Jorgensons landing with 2 dozen shrimp, fiddlers, and my arsenal of artificials. Hit a few trout ranging from 12-18” on Yo-Zuri pencils, around the mangroves, but didn’t get my normal snook blowups.

Got a chance to hit some local ponds around my hood with the kids this week and was super stoked when my daughter landed her first bass. Using a brownish gold weedless lizard was producing […]

Got out early by my standards (6:45am) with the intention of working some new grounds off of Pineda Cwsy. The water was crystal clear and I could see a ton of sheeps head, mangroves, and […]

Hit the water today just north of the inlet. Went with the goal of using mostly finger mullet, however, I could only find a handful under 10in. Pitching the up to the mangrove lines produced […]

After a month of non stop working, I decided today would be the day I hit the water. Got out just after 3pm and headed to the waters around Johns fish camp. Started off throwing Grey gulp in crawshrimp. First cast way up into the mangroves and I got blasted. It was if that fish wanted to make it beyond clear that today was not her day, as she literally ran straight out of there at my boat, clearly made eye contact with me, winked at me, and broke me off. Now irritated by the eye contact that red put on me, I retied and went back to work.

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.

Woke up quick, at about noon… It’s been a busy past few weeks working and I finally got the chance to sleep in and fish. Perfect. The bite started out pretty slow with a single small snook and a catfish using gulf shrimp in grey. Glass minnows were everywhere so I went with a twitch bait, nothing. I could hear bait getting busted on deep in the mangroves, so I went back to gulp, but this time a Grey Curley tail. Skipped a few under and SLAM. Hooked up on a nice 22” red. A few casts later and I hit a 20” snook.

First light Harbour City- Glow in the dark DOA shrimp

The reel handle to my Kastking Assassin fell off on it’s 3rd use. Junk alert, you get what you pay for.

South Inlet North Wabasso

Island Houses Mangrove Snap.

Large pins

Pineda Cswy

Seasons almost over.

22” red on gulp. Jorgensons Lansing east bank.