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With business way off from past years, there's not much to report. September is shaping up to be a disaster, just as August was.
I did get out on Monday of the first week with my old friend John Hitt, who was over for the weekend at his new condo. Because I had been doing very well with artificials, and John loves to fish artificials, we decided to go with them for this trip, in particular the Yozuri Magnum Walk the Dog. The tide was high first thing in the morning, which meant it was falling for the duration of our trip. The waters were full of floating seaweed everywhere we went, which made it nearly impossible to use any lure other than a spoon. The topwater plugs would be heavily weeded after only a few twitches, so if it didn't happen early, it wasn't going to happen. John and I worked our plugs and spoons hard, and missed several fish, but only managed to boat one red and one snook. We had a good time, though, doing what we love best, and John is always fun to fish with. Once we were done, we headed up the river to see if we could find his condo and access is from the water. Mission accomplished.
I went on a fishing trip of my own over the Labor Day weekend, down where phones and radios don't work. I left Friday morning, and didn't return until late Tuesday night. The next morning I headed up to Talon to pick up Gary Armington's personal F-16 to use on my trip with my old friend Bob McGuire the next day. IT would be my first trip in a Talon. I had invited my long time friend Capt. Mark Bess, who has retired from guiding, and who has also fished with Bob a few times over the years. We agreed to try our luck with artificials again, but had hopes of catching some ladyfish as a backup for the redfish, in case we couldn't lure them. We only managed to boat one ladyfish, although we had some that were in and out again. We also caught a few trout, and Mark had the hot rod there.
On the flats early in the tide there were redfish pushing all over, but they were spooky, and we didn't do the best job of presenting our lures to them. We only had two redfish hits on the lures all morning. Eventually, we put out frozen sardines and cut ladyfish, but the redfish just had lockjaw. They weren't interested in the least in eating. I suspect the water temperature had something to do with that, as putting my hand in the baitwell, was like putting it into a pot of water warming on a stove. The well has a 1,000 gallon per hour fresh water pickup, so the water is coming straight out of the flats, but it was easily in the 90's.
I think Bob, Mark, and I were all blown away at the performance and pure fishing comfort of the Talon. It really is an amazing boat. The three of us had so much room to fish and maneuver that I couldn't get over it. The Talon has such a soft ride in the rough stuff, that you think you're in a boat twice it's length. On the way home we were running into quite a stiff chop that came with a brisk afternoon easterly wind, and I'd guess we had waves to two feet. The Talon just seems to run over them effortlessly, quietly, and comfortably, and never got us wet. The boat exceeded my every expectation on the water, which is really saying something. The only thing this boat doesn't have fitted is a trolling motor, which I use a lot, but that wasn't a big deal, as the boat poles like a dream, and goes where you point it.
I have posted 12 new thumbnailed pictures on the Talon Page of this website, for those interested in seeing how one of these jewels goes together. I'm hopeful that completion date will be about a week from this writing.
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