I can only describe last week’s weather as outstanding. Cool mornings, warm sunny afternoons, and light wings added up to great days on the water. Calm conditions made angling options, from inshore to offshore, limitless. Throw in good tides and biting fish, and it was a stellar week to be fishing.
I spent most of my week in Pine Island Sound chasing snook, redfish, and trout. During low tide periods, we concentrated our efforts in deeper natural channels, both out on the flats and back in mangrove creeks.
Live shiners were abundant and were the bait of choice for all three species. Having lots of shiners, I was able to live chum and had the fish fired up, feeding aggressively on the surface. The variety in the mangroves was crazy. One morning, we caught over 10 species of fish from the same mangrove creek…