What a tough day!! I knew I have had it to easy lately and that a bad day was coming, but man! Today I guided Shaun, Chastity, Veronica and Nick on a 6 hour trip. We planned to go play with the Bull reds for an hour or so then try to snag a few Flounder before hitting the flats to catch a few Specks before we ran out of time.
Well, once we arrived at the Pass we found out that a few Bull Sharks had moved in and were attacking the hooked reds and had shut the red bite down. No problem, lets move over and catch a few Flounder, we had a well full of Bull Minnows and Shrimp. The Flounder just didn’t seem to want them, we caught a few and lost a few but nothing like the bite has been in the last couple of weeks. Thats when I went into find fish mode, I hit every piece of structure in the Bay that has produced a bite for me and found nothing. A skip jack here, a catfish there. Even got on a good bite of squirrel fish for a while, just couldn’t find what we were looking for. With an hour left we ran back to the South side of the ICW and hoped we find a few trout. We found plenty of catfish and a handful of tiny trout, but none that we could put in the box.
All in all it was a challenge to say the least and I’m grateful I had a crew that knows thats sometimes it doesn’t matter what you try, you just can’t get em.
………………..see you out there
(sorry not a whole lot of pics to look at today)
Capt. Brad king
South Again Charters
www.southagain.com
captbrad@southagain.com
859.316.0997
