My buddy Trevor and I loaded up the boat this morning on a mission for sheepshead. A quick stop at Hot Spots for some live shrimp and we were on the water by 8. At the pass, we looked at the depth finder the whole time. We found some rocks and ledges at 40ft, so we dropped down. Seconds later, Trevor is bent over!
We stay on this spot for a few hours. Ended up with 12 sheeps and a few cutoffs. Awesome day!
Chris Dunn
For anyone with a kayak, I would strongly recommend buying yourself a stickit anchor pin. Fishing on the flats is a whole lot easier if you have one. Deployment is easy. Just slam it into the ground and you’re stuck. No mess or hassle. Don’t burden yourself with ropes and pulleys. Keep it simple.
Use it off your bow
Use it off the stern
Chris Dunn
On December 31st 2009 I guided Josh and his two sons on some Pensacola bay trout and redfish action. I was very confident going into the trip, seeings how I had located a good number of fish just two days prior. We were a little late taking off because the fog hurt our vision and it would have been unsafe to run through such conditions. Around 8 a.m. the fog lifted and off we went to our first stop. Little did I know this would be our last stop of the day. I had two of my clients rigged with a Berkely Gulp and the other with a live shrimp for trout. I got them into position and all three of them made great cast into the deep water droppoff that was holding fish a few days before. The two boys both hooked up with mid to upper slot reds
on the first cast.One was caught on a live shrimp and the other on a gulp. After that it was constant action throughout the morning. I ended up rigging them up with three soft plastics and let them cast and catch an assortment of trout, reds, and black drum. All of the fish were caught in 13ft of water off a dropoff. In fact I haven’t caught a good fish in less than 8ft of water fishing the upper bays in the last 3 weeks. This cold snap we are having is only going to make it better.
Capt Brant Peacher
www.fishtheemeraldcoast.com
A guides life during the winter can be very tough. With cold weather and little business, most of us tend to do other things like hunt, or work a number of odd jobs. I was fortunate to get a few calls for trips over the christmas break and into the first week of January, so I new that locating fish was first on my agenda.
I have two morning trips during the balance of the week so I decided to take Tuesday morning and search for some upper bay trout and reds with my father. Numerous rainfall over the month of December has screwed up Pensacola’s bay systems, which makes finding fish very difficult. We started the morning looking for trout which are usually easy to find this time a year. After hitting 6 or 7 spots without a bite we made a 5 mile run to an area that has proved productive when nothing else seems to work. As we approached the area we were greeted with lot’s of birds diving on bait, which as any fisherman knows, is a very a good sign during the winter. After a few minutes of casting dad was the first to hook up. He boated a nice 21″ red which was released. As my dad was releasing his fish my drag started screaming. A couple minutes later I boated a nice 27″ red. After that it was constant action for a about 10 minutes catching several nice trout and a handful of mid to upper slot redfish. We left after 15 minutes becuase I didn’t want to drain the watering hole since I have several trips scheduled for the end of the week. We hit several more spots in that area finding more trout and reds. We called it a morning around 10am.
As a guide I feel that pre fishing is very important, unless of course it is the summer and you are chartering everday. Then you will always have the fish located. If nothing else prefishing gives you that confidence factor that you don’t have when you are having to fish blind. I love knowing where the fish are before I run a charter!
Capt Brant Peacher
http://www.fishtheemeraldcoast.com/
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