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I had just one trip for the week, but it was a great one, with some really good redfishing.
The trip was on Friday, with David Wallsmith, and his friend, Bill Shaw, of Knox, Indiana. David is the father of my old friends Todd and Lynn Wallsmith, of Knox. David and Todd practice law together there. Well, David's friend Bill's sister was getting married on Sanibel, and he was coming to the wedding. Todd arranged for David and Bill to fish with me while they were here. I was very excited about meeting David, but Todd said he'd really hyped me up, and I figured I was in a hole I couldn't dig out of! We had a falling tide for the whole time we would be on the water. My least favorite scenario to fish!
After meeting Dave and Bill, and getting things put away, we headed out in near darkness toward the B Span flats. I hoped to quickly catch plenty of shiners and pinfish, so that I could go try to find some ladyfish without wasting too much of the higher part of the outgoing tide. But, to my surprise and delight, the first throw of the net resulted in about a dozen ballyhoo, which weren't around the last time I'd caught bait. We caught plenty more, and lots of pins, but the few shiners we had were very small. The bigger bait that had been there seemed to have disappeared.
I was really worried about spending too much of our tide chasing shiners, and was about to go fishing without them, since we had plenty of ballyhoo. But, I decided to make a quick stop at the Chino Island flats and see if we could quickly bag a few descent shiners there. I was actually quite surprised when they came so quickly, and we loaded up in two or three casts and were ready to fish.
I decided to target redfish with all those ballyhoo, and went straight to a spot that I knew was full of slot and outsized redfish. The question would be, "Will they eat?" We got our answer quickly, as we had action right from the get-go! Dave and Bill caught redfish and mangrove snapper all morning long.
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The islands of floating turtle grass are still everywhere, and there were volumes of it floating on the tide out of the backcountry. Fortunately, we were able to work through it and catch some great fish.
Be sure to check out www.BestFishingBooks.com, Books and gifts for fishermen from my friend Jim Dicken!
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