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Put Mako's Mako in at the Lighthouse at 8:30 am.. Headed to a spot on the western flats that had been productive in the past. Picked up several shorts right off the bat. I Picked up the only keeper of the day within the first two hours. Mako was busy catching sail cat after sail cat, and an occasional short in between. To top it all off, I caught a lizard fish. It seems like all the keepers were picked up during the tournament on Saturday. Around 1:30 15-20 mph wind out of the SE accompanied by a high tide kicked up the waves to 2-3 inshore and brought the shore water levels to record highs. Decided to try to stop on the wreck at the end of the jetty for some sheephead with no luck, but a couple good bites. Did pick up a small stingray Had a heck of a time getting the boat back on the trailer because of the wind... Took three tries + 1 re-launch .
A Mako with a short.
A Mako with a sail cat. Good fighters
The ceremonial Lizard fish “catch of the day !
Time is the most precious commodity we have in life, stay focused.
Dstockwell- The morning was rather calm. The wind actually stopped for a while around 11:00am, before just busting loose-
TC the water where we were had maybe 2'- 3' visibility, but after the wind kicked back in, it seemed to churned up more gunk and lowered visibility to 2' or less. We would have practically hit a trout right on the head to bring one to the boat.
Update-
Once the wind started blowing in from the SSE, the water also rose with the tide. We were able to navigate all the way throgh Big Pass without touching the skegg. It is really nice up in there. One thing that really seemed to upset me was someone had one of those rental boats from Shell Island (SI) , and everytime we started getting into some fish, this boat from SI would either buzz right by us, or constantly follow us around. It wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't keep starting their engine and moving 25' or 50' at a time. I can only guess they were some out of town tourist out for a day shadowing some locals picking up fish.
The main colors were 4" R&W twirl tail grubs, and 6" chartruse twirl tail grubs. When things got slow we started using everything in the tackle box. Mako found success using a "bright gold glitter" shad on a jug under a CT. He could catch those sail cats one after another with that setup. I started trowing topwater chubugs and odd colored jigs without any success.
Time is the most precious commodity we have in life, stay focused.
It seems like all the keepers were picked up during the tournament on Saturday. Around 1:30 15-20 mph wind out of the SE accompanied by a high tide kicked up the waves to 2-3 inshore and brought the shore water levels to record highs. Decided to try to stop on the wreck at the end of the jetty for some sheephead with no luck, but a couple good bites. Did pick up a small stingray 
