Fun fishing 8-22-2011

I usually do not post my fun fishing trip on here but I thought I would fill everyone

on what is going on in our waters here in Saint Augustine. I went out with Brian today and he was wanting to pole my boat around so I had no argument to that. We want to try and find a few redfish for the tournament in a few weeks. Well we were able to find them. We found redfish like this one in just about every spot that we looked. We caught all of them in very shallow water. Most of the redfish were in a few inches but there were a few in some of the holes. I just love watching a 26" redfish open his mouth and inhale your bait less than 20 feet from the boat. The redfish are very fired up right now. It is nothing to go out and easily catch 10 - 20 slot redfish in a half day trip and most of them are sight fished. I am looking forward to the fall and winter patterns that are starting already.

Charter 8-18-2011 w/ Brad and his son

Today I had repeat clients Brad and his son out. Last year I was able to guide brads son to his first redfish which was a nice lower slot redfish. Well this year I told him we would get one even bigger. The first fish of the day was a nice upper-slot redfish. He did an excellent job of bringing it to the boat all by himself. After that he was catching redfish on every cast. I can not remember how many he ended up with. After that flurry of fish Brad decided it was his turn to do a little fly fishing. We had some nice redfish in every direction in a foot of water but he just could not get these fish to take the fly. We must of easily seen over 30 redfish up on the flat. So after that I decided it was time to boat a few flounder. It took a few minutes but the flounder decided to start chewing. They both caught quite a few decent flounder and we decided to call it a day. Next year the pressure is on to get him a bull redfish. I can't wait. See you guys next year

Charter 8-17-2011 w/ John King

Today I had repeat clients John and his brother in law. John has been going with me since I started guiding. He lives in Texas and his family has a place in Flagler. I am always trying to show him something different each time that he comes out with me. Today he was trying to get some nice redfish on top water lures. He had a bunch of blow up but was unable to hook up to the redfish. His brother in law had the hot hand of the day. He had a bunch of nice redfish and a few flounder in the mix. John switched over from the top water lure and was able to put a few fish in the boat. It was a fun day as always.