Cedar Key trout fishing & new boat for us
Posted: April 11th, 2011, 12:18 am
Last week at the end of Spring Break the storms & the weather finally cleared enough to take my kids to Cedar Key to play with the trout and red grouper (just opened). Along for the trip was a new-to-us boat we just bought, a 1992 Boston Whaler 19 Outrage.
For the past few weeks I’ve been playing with it removing old electronics, rigging in a new Furuno 620 bottom finder and ducer, wiring in a Garmin Chartplotter, an 8 foot antennae, 2 new batteries and a Minn Kota 2 bank charger, plus cutting & installing new rod holders, re-wiring the trailer with stanchion mounted LED lights, and having a SS bimini and a boat cover made from Custom Marine Components. After buffing out the hull the final thing was to get the boat name, Plan B, painted on by Todd of Ace Designs in Palm Valley.
In a nutshell it was a little too windy for grouper fishing but the trout fishing in Cedar Key was red hot and we caught A LOT of trout. The trout weren’t huge-just solid trout, but they were hungry. And abundant.
Casey
This time of the year you can’t help but catch trout in Cedar Key when fishing the shallow grass flats and patchy bottom of the closest islands. The first couple of days the water was pretty cloudy but by the last day (of course) the vis was pretty good and you could see the trout strike the lures and watch sharks and stingrays swim under the boat as we drifted. Just beautiful!
Cedar Key inside basin
The last afternoon was spent at the annual Cedar Key Art festival enjoying clams, oysters, turkey legs, and sweet corn, followed by taking the girls out for a ride, letting them catch a few trout, and hanging out at the Atsena Otie Key beach. A very nice way to end a Spring Break!
Our friend Abbey with her first trout
Girl trout
Atsena Otie Key
BW 19 Outrage
Life is GOOD!
Plan B
Hoo Yah!!
Brian
For the past few weeks I’ve been playing with it removing old electronics, rigging in a new Furuno 620 bottom finder and ducer, wiring in a Garmin Chartplotter, an 8 foot antennae, 2 new batteries and a Minn Kota 2 bank charger, plus cutting & installing new rod holders, re-wiring the trailer with stanchion mounted LED lights, and having a SS bimini and a boat cover made from Custom Marine Components. After buffing out the hull the final thing was to get the boat name, Plan B, painted on by Todd of Ace Designs in Palm Valley.
In a nutshell it was a little too windy for grouper fishing but the trout fishing in Cedar Key was red hot and we caught A LOT of trout. The trout weren’t huge-just solid trout, but they were hungry. And abundant.
Casey
This time of the year you can’t help but catch trout in Cedar Key when fishing the shallow grass flats and patchy bottom of the closest islands. The first couple of days the water was pretty cloudy but by the last day (of course) the vis was pretty good and you could see the trout strike the lures and watch sharks and stingrays swim under the boat as we drifted. Just beautiful!
Cedar Key inside basin
The last afternoon was spent at the annual Cedar Key Art festival enjoying clams, oysters, turkey legs, and sweet corn, followed by taking the girls out for a ride, letting them catch a few trout, and hanging out at the Atsena Otie Key beach. A very nice way to end a Spring Break!
Our friend Abbey with her first trout
Girl trout
Atsena Otie Key
BW 19 Outrage
Life is GOOD!
Plan B
Hoo Yah!!
Brian
Congrats on the new boat and fish. 