Shell Point 3/24
Posted: March 25th, 2018, 2:31 pm
Forecast was for winds at 15-20 mph so I was not going to down to the coast, but I woke up at daylight and could not go back to sleep. I checked the weather and it was pretty calm so I packed a sandwich and headed down. When I got to the bay, it was glass calm (like I have to throw a topwater calm), but by the time I launched the boat the wind started to pick up. I ran out to my first spot and had a good trout follow my bait on the third cast. Feeling confident I had fish in the area, I went back to fishing. I caught a fish every drift usually along transition points. Most of the fish came on twitch baits, but I did catch a short and an 18" trout on a gulp under a Cajun Thunder. I also caught a bonus flounder on the gulp. I tried to find a redfish to finish out my inshore slam, but by that time the wind really was howling and it was whitecapping so I just put the boat back on the trailer and called it a day. Final tally was 5 trout to 19", 4 shorts, and the flounder. No pinfish bites. Water 60-62 degrees and stained. Saw a gobbler on the way home so I did not have to feel bad about not turkey hunting on opening day.