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.

Charter July 24th w/ Dean and his guests

What a difference 24 hours can make on the bite. We were able to get a limit of redfish within the first 45 minutes. These fish were hungry this morning. We had double digits of upper slot redfish . We also had some really nice flounder and trout thrown in the mix. We fished a few different schools and decided to go look for some drag screaming fish off of the beach. It did not take long until we had a double hook up of some decent sharks. These fish were fun, in the 50-80 pound range. We weeded through the 4-6 footers until dean hooked into a big boy. He had an 8 foot spinner shark that jumped at least 6 feet into the air numerous times. After a bunch of sharks we decided to go back in shore to catch a few more flounder. We did well on the flounder and with the last hour we decided to go look for some tarpon. We had a mystery fish on that eventually broke us off on some docks a few hundred feet away. We never saw it jump but we had tarpon rolling around us and this fish was screaming drag. It was one of those days out there today. I know every bodies arms will be hurting tomorrow.

Charter July 22 w/Dave and his wife

What another beautiful day on the water. I had Dave out again for a half day trip. He decided to bring his wife along today. I have been on some really good redfish and today was no different. Only today they did not want to bite. We saw redfish everywhere pushing wakes but the majority of the were not interested in us. We were able to pick up two really nice redfish and a handful of smaller ones. We also picked up a few flounder and trout as well. Since the redfish were not wanting to play we decided to go off of the beach and catch some big fish. We did not see any tarpon but we were able to catch all of the big sharks that we wanted. After a couple each they were beat so we called it a day. It was as calm as a lake out there and a great day of fishing in Saint Augustine.

Charter July 21, 2011 w/ Ron and Cyndi

What a fun trip today. I had Ron and his wife Cyndi out for a half day trip. We started out at sunrise and it was a beautiful day. Nice calm conditions and not a boat in sight. Well the fish were chewing. We had a bunch of redfish, trout and flounder; and that was in the first hour of the trip. I had gone out yesterday to do a little prefishing for today's trip. It was a little tuff to locate fish so I went to a spot that I had not been to in over a year. It was a high tide so I went up onto a flat that I knew about. Well there were redfish everywhere. I sat there for a little while studying the fish. I left them alone and planned on trying to locate them on my trip at low tide. Well It worked. We slowly made our way into the creek. We made sure to do long casts not to spook the fish. Well we were getting fish on every cast. They both did a great job on keeping the fish away from the boat and the oysters. We did lose a few but they were able to catch a bunch. We then left these fish and went and chased another school of redfish around for a while. The next school was right where they were supposed to be but after Cyndi caught a nice 26" they decided to stop biting so we called it a day. This was there first time salt water fish so I am sure they are hooked now.

July 10 2011 charter w/ Rodger,Tom, Riley

What another amazing day of fishing. I had four client today so the top water was out of the question. We started out catching a few ladyfish. Then the drag started screaming. After 10-15 minutes we had a huge bonnet head shark upto the side of the boat. He took one last run and broke him on the motor. We it was time to go chase some trout. We managed a few small trout but nothing to write home about. Since the tide was dropping I figured that it was time to go look for some redfish. Well we found them. We took turns casting making sure that everyone was able to get there shot at a big redfish .We had close to double digit keepers again today with a bunch of 15-18" throw in the mix. What an awesome day of fishing. This is defiantly the week of the kids.