Is it just me or was it HOT today??? Today I was joined by Melissa, Dustin and Paxton on a 6 hour trip. With the bite in the Pass all but dead and very little Tidal movement, I knew we would have to change our strategy up today. We started out chasing trout and had no problems finding them. First stop we were catching really small ones every other cast. Seemed like the fish liked the 3′-5′ of water the best and that’s the depth that produced our best results.
After weeding through about 20 small ones we started getting a little better grade of fish. Young Paxton boated a 20″ fish followed shortly by a 21″ fish. We also boated several small Spanish and a Ladyfish on the flats as well! Once the bite slowed down around 8:30 we moved out to the Gulf to try our hands at a little light tackle trolling. We trolled small diving plugs on Trout tackle and had a blast!! First bite was a 15lb King that Paxton whooped on 10lb braid in no time! After that we boated Spanish after Spanish for nearly two hours with an additional King hook up later in the day. The second King broke our light wire leader right before we could boat him! After filling the cooler with Mackerel we decided to try the redfish and Flounder in the Pass but in a solid hour of trying we never got one single bite. I had a blast with these guys today and hope they come back to see me again real soon!!
…………………. See you out there
Capt. Brad King
South Again Charters
www.southagain.com
