A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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Trust me there is no red tide in the Lanark/Dog Island area. Sunday I was flying solo. Hit the water at about 8:00 and was greeted with a nice high tide. Skies were overcast so I started drifting a shallow edge with a chug bug. First drift landed two nice trout and had several bowling ball type blowups. Did one more drift and got a couple of smaller trout. Decided to go look for reds. I found them on the crown of big flat. Despite the overcast skies they were relatively easy to see and almost glowed against the grey backdrop. I fished until 3:00 and saw and caught reds throughout the falling tide. Forgot the camera so no Sunday pics.
Monday, weatherman calling for light northwest winds and abundant sunshine. People are not supposed to work on days like this and the Sunday trip sealed the deal on taking the day off. School's out so my little girl joins me. On the water by 10:00 and started throwing the chug bug as I drifted toward the redfish water. As I'm nearing the real skinny water something absolutely erupts on the chug bug. I keep it moving and the fish explodes again. One more twitch and the big copper head comes out of the water and swallows the plug. A few minutes later Sydney and I have our first red of the day . . . a heavy bodied 26 incher. I put the spinning rod away and we start creeping on the top of the flat. Within five minutes we have the second red to the boat. Long story short, we ended the day at 3:30 and saw fish all day long. Probably landed twenty fish and had at least three doubles. Also landed a 23 inch trout in a foot of water. He was cozied up to a bigger trout that I hooked and pulled off seconds before he ate.
BTW the sharks and sting rays have disappeared and the sheepshead are on the flats in force (a sure sign of fall to me). I probably saw 200 sheepies today and could not convince a single one to eat . . . I love those fish. A few pics from today.
Outstanding news from Lannark. Once again I am up-staged by the great pictures and the story of fish being caught, instead of just a fishing story with snapshots ....
Great Job !
Time is the most precious commodity we have in life, stay focused.
It just don't get no better than that and the shells on the casting deck just tops it off
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
A day to cherish, Noleflyfisher, my daughter is now 15 and 'too busy' for fishing but she sometimes brings up her boating memories from those early years. Especially how she would catch more fish than me and the time she threw up on my lap. I wish we had taken more photos. The shot with the redfish is fantastic.
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