Conditions have been very tough the past couple weeks with winds gusting up to 30mph. I had a couple trips lined up during these windy condition but there is always a way to get out of the wind and still have a successful day. Saturday, I had Neil from Jacksonville along with his brother, uncle and his father who were from Wisconsin join me on the water. Since I had multiple anglers, I called friend and fellow guide Capt. Jamie Glasner to help out with half of the group since 4 people on a flats skiff is a crowd. We went to a spot to get out of the wind, as soon as the first person casted a jig, they instantly hooked up to a trout, shortly after everyone was hooking up into small redfish and trout from 15″-25″. This lasted for a couple hours until they were saying their arms got tired. We had shots at larger redfish in schools but the winds made it tough for accuracy. Neil, who was on Jamies boat ended up landing his biggest redfish ever that weigh 32lbs! All anglers had a great time, the group agreed that they had caught the most fish ever along with Neil that caught his most and biggest that day! We estimated between 4 anglers, they boated atleast 150 redfish and 200 trout!! Wow what a day for Neil and family!
Monday and Tuesday I had Panos Galanopoulas from New York City on the bow of my skiff. Conditions were REALLY tough on Monday for the Lagoon but we stuck it out and kept fishing. Panos is a great flycaster, we tucked behind islands and had a few shots at large redfish and gator trout but no takers. Tuesday seemed to be a better day, still a bit breezy but we had more shots at tailing fish and schooled up fish. Panos made great casts to some of these fish which were not interested. He could have gave in a caught a bunch of redfish and trout on a spin rod but Panos was determined to get one on fly which I respect. We tried hard to get one but they just did not seem interested or the wind made casting very difficult. Panos did however get a nice sized Flounder to eat a clouser! He had a great taking shots at tailers and we are going to try again in a couple months where the conditions are easier to predict.
Book your trip today! Call or email me to see what dates are available, it’s that time for Cobia right now and the Large Tarpon should not be too far behind them!!
-Capt. Willy Le
321-303-7805
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