The Captain's Chronicle

December brought more intense cold fronts, which brought fish together even more. Similar to November, trout and redfish were found on grass and mud. Bigger trout tended to be up shallower, while you could find smaller trout schooled together in deeper parts of a drop off. Redfish were found in schools more, making it a pretty sight when you could see them tailing and attacking bait fish. Colder water (water temps in 50s and 60s) means clearer water, and I targeted areas of t

With water temperatures in the upper 60s and 70s, fishing conditions lined up nicely for November. Trout were still holding around lighted piers at night. We had great success throwing topwaters — the MirrOlure She Dog in bone/chrome was the go-to — along with soft plastics. Redfish and trout were often mixed together on muddy grass flats in knee- to waist-deep water. We also picked up a few solid flounder in muddier sections of the flats. Bait was abundant, and wherever ther

Finally some cooler weather rolling in! We had our first noticeable cold front of the year and it did its job knocking water out. When this happened we hit up deeper areas adjacent to shallow flats. It also made for great fishing when the water came back in and they moved up into shallow water. One day we found the most redfish tails I have ever seen, but they were sticking straight up buried in the grass/mud digging stuff out, similar to black drum. When this happened we wen

September was an awesome month to find trout and redfish in grass and shell. Redfish were on the move chasing mullet on grass flats. Although tough to get to eat at times, you would have to put the lure right on their nose for them to notice, but once they found it they put up an amazing fight. Trout could be found in deeper grass and on reefs. When I fished the beach there were still plenty of sharks.

Fishing in August was awesome! Pods of redfish could be found tight on shorelines pushing shrimp early in the morning. Later in the day...