Florida Fishing Reports

Sept 18 - Night Snook - Hippy Shots - A Dog

The night fishing remains totally ridiculous. I've caught 5 - 15 snook every night this week. My son goes to bed about 9 and I usally slip out for an hour and hit the lights near my place. It's been amazing and I also managed to catch some sweet pictures and a hippy shot or two.

I think a little wind is really helpful for night fishing. The line seems to spook them when the water is completely smooth. I have a canal I fish with tons of fish in it but the shelter from the wind makes them extremely sensitive to the line in the water and their buddies being pulled out by their lips. Conversely, I have a spot on the bay that you can drift right through and just continue to pull snook after snook out until they're all gone. Report follows.

Some nights you can just tell the fishing is going to be pretty good.


Hippies and Wilderness Kayak owners alike are going to like this one.


Known catfish hotspot.


Cookie cutter 26 inch snook.


Beautiful skies in September. Usually we get tarpon this time of year inshore but I haven't seen any yet.


He's a little pissed about the low tide killing the bite.


A boy and his dog and his flipflops and a bunch of no-see-ums.

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September 10 - Big Redfish - Night Snook - Excellent Fishing

Aloha anglin' afficinados. Fishing has been hot. Check it out.

The sun rises...


More primo habitat.


Trout have been hitting well all over the bay.


The Marina has finally been torn down. Now, I kinda miss it.


There have been thousands and thousands of mullet everywhere lately. You tend to get excited when you see mullet because they're so active on the surface.  I mean, if you see mullet, it means there's some fish out there. Mullet = not a total dead zone. You can cast lures into mullet all day and catch nothing. Fun.


An interesting juxtaposition of sea and land or my camera went off by accident... not sure...


Dock Light Fishing: This picture shows how far away from a dock light you should be to catch fish. Get too close, no fishes. I've found you should just cast right at the light and hopefully go past it. Lately, the edges haven't produced like right in the middle of the light. Also, pausing your retrieve doesn't work for me. Once you stop a quick retrieve the fish are like "Woah dude, that's a piece of plastic." you have to create competition under the light and a quick and getting quicker retrieve helps.


Good casts make it happen. Once you get good at skipping your lure way up under the dock,you will start really catching fish. When your first cast wraps around the dock light it just ruins your mojo.


Hippy shots are everywhere.


Cast into about 20 wakes and felt the lure being knocked around. This sweet redfish finally smacked it. 30.5" was the measurement. That's the biggest redfish I've ever caught on a jerkbait.


Thats it!
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