The Saturday charter with first time customers Rusty and JD
started well. Everybody was right on time for our 10am departure from Punta
Rassa, for our 6 hour trip. Then, within a few minutes I was able to net plenty
of bait at the causeway without much searching in just 3 throws of the net.
There didn’t seem to be any evidence of red tide like the week before as we
started drifting some grass flats on the slowly incoming tide. Before long we
were able to zero in on some trout hitting the scaled sardines under corks we
were using for bait. Unfortunately they were all 14” long, or smaller.
Throughout the day we must have caught 20-30 of them without 1 being keeper
size. We also worked some creeks and mangrove shorelines during our day where
we caught ladyfish, jacks, snapper, and landed 1 decent snook.
Wish we would
have gotten the giant snook we came up on to bite, instead of spooking her. All
in all it was a great day with great people and on the water!
