April 21st, 2009
On april 10th the weather didn’t look very favorable for fishing. The wind was blowing about 25 knots out of the northwest wipping up the waterway into a chocolate 2 foot chop. Originally the trip booked by Joe Ryan and his soon to be father-in-law was to fish the close wrecks offshore for sheepsheadand other bottom fish. That morning we decided that an inshore fishing trip was the only possible option. We started fishing with an extremely high tide, high wind and very little clean water. This combination didn’t help produce any bites. As the morning progressed, the tide dropped and the water clarity improved increasing hope for at least a fish or two. Four hours of casting live shrimp and moving from spot to spot had produced nothing! Looking at the sour faces of my clients I new I had to find some fish in the few short hours I had left. My next move was to fish some docks that had been holding fish at low tide. My first dock paid off! We immediately started catching redfish one after another in the 2 to 5 pound range. Over the next 2 hours we caught over 30 redfish, a half dozen black drum up to 6 pounds, and a few nice trout. I was glad I was able to put the guys on some fish and make a great trip out of a bad weather day.
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