Yesterday I took Greg Gambell, his 16 year old daughter, 13 year old son, and their two cousins fishing for reds and trout. We started out at 9:00 and headed north up the waterway. Within 15 minutes, we had a nice 20-25 inch red on! One of the girl thought it was too much to handle and wound up letting the fish get under the boat and broke it off. We had 6 nice bites at that spot in the fist 45 minutes. They missed all of them. Oh well, chalk it up to a learning experience I guess. We ran from the rain for a minute then made our way to some docks. After catching one red fish, we ended up the day with 1 break off and 7 missed bites and 3 pulled hooks. The kids just were not feeling it yesterday. Better luck next time! It's days like this that are hardest. I think the main reason we missed fish was because of the wind. It pushes your line around and the current acts funny and its sometimes hard for the inexperienced to see or feel the bite.
This coming Saturday, we have a tournament to benefit the "Joe's Buddy" organization. Joe was a local young man that was very popular and well liked. He passed away a few years ago and some of his friends started the foundation to make an artificial reef in his honor. Saturday is the 1st annual fishing tournament to help raise money to build another reef. Trout, Red Fish, Sheepshead, and Flounder are going to be our target species for the day. I'll keep everyone posted on how we do. Thanks to everyone for checking in every now and then and just remember, you can't win it if you ain't in it. Till next time, tight lines not tight drags!
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