2-18-2009 - Trout Limits and Redfish Schools
Unfortuantely, I still don't have my camera back but hopefully some of my clients will send in some of the pictures they took.
About a week ago the bite was hit or miss. Over the last several days though the trout ate really well. And today, finally, the redfish turned on like gang busters.
Yesterday I had Marquis and his wife Rebekah on the boat. Marquis really wanted to get into some snook but the snook are still a little sluggish from our previous weeks of cold weather. So we headed out in search of redfish. I took them to a spot where I had gotten into some good redfish a few days earlier with clients and the signs all looked right at first. We saw a few fish, mullet were everywhere... But after trying it for an hour, we only had one hook up. So we headed out to find some trout. That was the ticket. When we first pulled up to the trout spot, I opened the livewell to grab one of the 72 shrimp I had bought only to find that there was just 5 shrimp in the livewell. Somehow most of the shrimp they had escaped through the drain! I had never had that happen before! Oh well, We caught nice keeper trout on all 5 live shrimp and then I broke out the deadly combo. Frozen shrimp, Cajun Thunder Poppin' Cork and Slayer Inc. jigheads. The trout ate it up. We soon had our limit and then we were releasing fish becuase we just couldn't keep any more. I asked Marquis if he wanted to keep catching the trout or if he wanted to try for reds again. He said, "Let's get a red." So we hit one more redfish spot. It didn't take long to spot the reds but they just would not eat. I don't know what their deal was yesterday.
Today was a different story with the redfish. We fished much farther north than yesterday and found 3 very large schools of redfish. Each school must have been real hungry because we had several double hookups and sometimes several fish woudl chase after the same bait. The most productive lures today were the Sebile suspending minnow and the new Mirr-O-Lure soft plastic jerkbaits fished on Slayer Inc. Lure Co. jig heads.
We've got a couple of mild cold fronts coming over the next couple of weeks but I don't think it will effect the bite too much. It may make the fish move around a bit but I don't think it wil get cold enough for the fish to get lockjaw again like they had with the last cold front. There are only a few days left open for February. So if you want to go fishing before March, jump on it as soon as you can. As of right now there are 15 days left open in March and it is usually a very busy month so plan ahead if you want to get in on some awesome redfish action.
Tampa Bay Fishing
Captain Clay Eavenson
813-300-2147
http://www.captainclay.com/
gofishing@captainclay.com
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