Sept 1, Apalachee Bay
Posted: September 2nd, 2019, 6:39 pm
We hit the water around 10:30 to heavy grey skies, and a brisk wind out of the northeast, thanks to Dorian. We headed to the east flats, where water visibility was better about 4' to 5' and the water temps were around 85f, which is a few degrees cooler than it has been.
We splurged for live shrimp this weekend, but had to go Shields to get them, and bouncing them along the bottom picked up lots of short trout, and a never-ending assault by pinfish.
We started fishing some DOA shrimp under a cork, and boated two sailcats, one of them a nice size. Beyond that it was pinfish and sharks and short trout. ( Yes, we ate the sailcats, delicious!)
We tried deeper water, going out to 10' but no real change in success. Drifting some pinfish gave us a few sharks for fun, but it was slow fishing. We headed over to some dropoffs into deeper water, and caught a spanish mackeral on a live shrimp bounced off the bottom, and a few more shark attacks.
It almost seems that during these hotter months, either go offshore or don't bother. Or I'm missing something?
We splurged for live shrimp this weekend, but had to go Shields to get them, and bouncing them along the bottom picked up lots of short trout, and a never-ending assault by pinfish.
We started fishing some DOA shrimp under a cork, and boated two sailcats, one of them a nice size. Beyond that it was pinfish and sharks and short trout. ( Yes, we ate the sailcats, delicious!)
We tried deeper water, going out to 10' but no real change in success. Drifting some pinfish gave us a few sharks for fun, but it was slow fishing. We headed over to some dropoffs into deeper water, and caught a spanish mackeral on a live shrimp bounced off the bottom, and a few more shark attacks.
It almost seems that during these hotter months, either go offshore or don't bother. Or I'm missing something?
But I did try something new and the Unagi sauce is awesome. 