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With Monday as a scheduled day off, and Friday canceled by the customer, I fished a three day abbreviated week. Here's how it went.
Tuesday morning I met Rick Stobbelaar, and his friends Gordon and Jerry at the Waterfront Restaurant in St. James City just after sun-up. It was a pretty windy morning with east/southeast wind blowing at 15 to 20. When the wind is east....... We headed back across to Tarpon Bay to find bait, and caught plenty in an hour's time.
From there we headed up into the Sound to start our morning fishing for trout. We found plenty, but the big trout wouldn't eat, and most, if not all the fish were undersized. Along with the trout came 3 catfish, 5 ladyfish, and 3 jack crevalle, the biggest at around 8 pounds. Rick was pretty impressed with the way that jack fought, and thought he had something much larger. Later in the morning we managed a snook, but most of the action was early. We had a good time, but it certainly was not a banner day!
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What a difference a day can make. Wednesday, things were different for Jay Panozzo, his dad, Jerry, and his best friend Phil. We headed straight to Tarpon Bay once again for bait, and found all we needed. We followed the same plan of attack as the day before; starting off with trout early in the tide, then graduating to snook when once the tide was up some.
At the first stop, we had a bonanza of big trout, and caught a load of them. The boys also boated 4 big flounder, 2 jacks, 1 ladyfish, and a catfish. Later, we turned our attentions to snook, and put 9 in the boat. The boys had the usual problems getting into the grove of setting the hook on a really tight line, but they did just fine, and we had a lot of fun.
Thursday morning, I met my friend Brian Studebaker, his wife Jennifer, and her dad, Tom, from Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, at the Sanibel Ramp. I think it had been a couple of years since I'd last fished with the Studebakers, and it was good to see them. I had a feeling it was going to be a good day. We had a good tide and the weather was beautiful.
We were off to catch bait in short order, and got plenty of nice shiners. Soon afterward, we were turning those shiners into nice trout. In the next couple of hours the Studebakers caught a good 30 nice trout, a flounder, a ladyfish, and a couple of jack crevalle. Once the bite slowed, we turned our attention once again to snook. This time, though, I headed up into the north part of the Sound where the water is clearer in hopes of finding snook that would actually eat.
Our first stop was our last stop, as we had constant snook action for the rest of the morning, and boated 21 or 22 snook, and lost more, including some big ones. I think Jennifer had more fun than the boys, and it was the perfect way to end the week. It was a great day.
We've got pretty good tides next week, so if the weather is good, I anticipate that the fishing will be, too. Time will tell!
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