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Flyrodc, I had a good conversation with your Montana friend and his wife - very nice people and tuned in to the Forgotten Coast!

Trout were back on the bars Sunday, good bite until the wind picked up. Over 20, with about 1/3 shorts, but a 21", a 20" and some upper teens mixed in. Clousers - brown over cream when it was flat, Olive/chart/white ('Lighthouse') clouser when the breeze picked up.

with the cooler weather, trout are back to staging - picked up 18 and two short reds along some creek mouth oyster bars. Even had some topwater action with gartside gurglers. No overslots, but a couple at 19". No real dinks either, most 15" - 17"

No joy yesterday - appears the warm weather scattered the fish. They weren't in their 'staging area' like last week. Had a few swings and misses, and some kayak control issues with the wind, but not near the activity of a week ago.

Refuge was active yesterday - water was clear and cool, but not cold. Picked up 26 trout, most 16" - 18", with two overslots at 21" and 23". Added a flounder and a few short reds. Olive over white clouser with minimal flash seemed to work best.

Fished the refuge Sunday - got one 15" trout off the lighthouse bars. Tried the bars to the west - knew it would be tough when I saw a big Alligator gar swim by - too much freshwater. I did get a fly-by from 'Pinkie' the flamingo, so that was interesting.

Maybe the cooler weather will kick things off - lots of rain this summer murked up the water. The floodplains are still full of water and the rain yesterday didn't help.

I've tried a few charlie type patterns - tan charlies should work well as a sand flea imitator for pomps and whiting. Yellow is another good color with gold flash, red thread.

Tough day today on the St Marks flats - brutal east wind. bounced a few clousers off my back. Did manage a 17" redfish and a 24" trout - trout was nice and fat and fought well on the 7wt. Added a ladyfish later but packed it in at noon. Looked like the wind was starting to lay down somewhat.

I'll mix some pearl, copper and UV pearl in with the gold - just a few strands of each. Fish may not care but I like a pearl and gold/copper combo for over the grass beds.

Fished SGI this week end - got a nice whiting in the surf and lost a bluefish (cut off as I was about to land it, and got a ...

Where did you get it? Pomps are my favorite fish to catch on the fly - I've only got a few. Picked up two trout at the refuge today - 20" and 16", plus two puffers that wrecked my flies.

Not so good today - strong east wind made it tough. Did get my first redfish of the year - 21" on a clouser. And my first puffer of the year. Added a jack and had something get off after a few head shakes, but no trout.

I've been lucky - no puffers so far. I'm still waiting for my first redfish and flounder of the year

Flats were good today - 14 trout, nothing under 17", with 8 19" or bigger (two overslots at 22', 21' today). Clousers and intermediate line. Saw lots of catching going on with other kayaks and boats.
The water is very clear and still somewhat cool, but that will be changing this week if the ...

I would hate to have someone listen to me while fishing from a kayak - every other word would be bleeped out. A paddle board would be better for casting since you could stand but the wind effects would be worse.