March 5, 2010

We'll the cold weather just won't go away. We get one day a week of nice, sunny, weather and the rest of the time we are fishing in cold, windy weather. At least were starting to see signs of spring. The sun's angle has changed, the birds are starting to change there feathers and fry bait is showing up. All in all, the fishing is pretty good. Ihave fished the upper bay for a couple of days at the start of the week. Sunday the wind was blowing hard out of the northwest and we had to fish in the lee. We found fair numbers of Redfish for the limited areas we could fish. Tuesday was a different story. The wind came around out of the southeast and dropped out. The sky was sunny and the Redfish were happy. We managed seven fish all over 28" in about 4 hours before the tide got to high. All the fish were caught sight fishing over sand. The fish were aggressive, actively chasing the jigs and flies. It was just as good as it gets. Wednesday I did some much need boat detailing and then back to the water, fishing the lower bay Thursday and today. Again the wind blew hard on Thursday. I did manage to find the Redfish and caught a few BIG trout to top it of. Today I went scouting with another guide friend targeting schooly trout. That didn't go so we'll. There has been a lot of dirty water coming in from the gulf on the in coming tide and it really shut down a couple of grass edges that had been producing nicely. I'm sure as soon as the water cleans up the schooly trout will again be going strong. I haven't done any sheepshead fishing this week but hear the bite is still on as it should be. I will say that there is a lot more life in the lower bay then there has been in the past few months. It really looks like it going to blow wide open with bait funneling in and all the good thing that go along with that. Tight lines