We took off on high falling tide this morning with the wind at our backs. A front is passing and the wind is northeast and a little harsh for this time of year. I’ve been hoping for an off shore wind so that I could do some poling on the way-outside-flats and I took a chance on it this morning. It was just too rough and windy so we ran inshore and fished the last of the falling on a flat closer to shore and sheltered, a perfect window at the perfect time, there were fish everywhere in about eight inches of water, redfish and snook, stingrays with strings of fish in their trail, sharks, and ridiculous schools of black drum waking all over the place.
The tide blew out and there were a lot of boats out for the holiday, so we ran back north and fished the 10,000 Islands for tarpon. Mike Colt has hooked another one, an even bigger one, closer to a hundred pounds. We lost it under the mangroves in a very tight situation.
We’re working as hard as ever for these fish but we’re also trying to get into a layed back mode of hunting them because it’s getting really hot.