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Nasty weather kept most of us off the water Monday and Tuesday of this week. Wednesday, my friend and BarHopp'R veteran Dr. Bob Rose, of Galvaston, and his good friend Dr. John Sheridan, braved the elements to fish. It was cold and humid, and we froze our buns off!
We first headed up the river for ladyfish and jack action, and found plenty. We caught fish after fish, all ladys save for one jack. Then we headed out near Ft. Myers beach to catch bait. We loaded up with beautiful shiners and pinfish, but from there it was a challenge to find any finny critter that would eat them. The snook and reds just wouldn't eat. The only other action we had was around 15 trout. Tough day! The Waterfront Restaurant was a welcome sight by midday.
Thursday, the weather was much improved for my old friend Bob McGuire, of Line Lexington, Pennsylvania, and his son Tom. This was Tom's first BarHopp'R trip, and of course, Bob and I decided to start him off up the river with intense ladyfish action. We caught tons of them, but finally tired of them, and headed out for bait. Bob and I decided we'd do something different since the prospect for snook and reds wasn't looking very good; grouper fishing.
We ran to a very good grouper hole, that usually holds some very nice keeper size gags. We had four smaller grouper in the boat pretty quickly, but the action stopped after that. We tried another usually productive hole without so much as a bite. Then we switched our attention to trout and reds. We did manage 10 or so nice trout and 1 redfish before heading to the Waterfront for lunch.
Friday the winds were light and variable, and the high was to be around 80 for my friends Fred and Polly Liebold. Fred and Polly are a hoot to fish with. Fred is fun, but Polly giggles and squeals when she's got a fish on, and I love to watch and listen to her fish. It doesn't matter what she's catching, she's havin' fun! They were hoping we could have another big redfish day like we'd had last time out, but I cautioned that it may be tough to pull off.
We headed up the river once again, this time not just for the fun of catching ladyfish, but for ladyfish as redfish bait. We quickly caught plenty, as well as a couple of jacks, and were off to catch shiners.
We fished the reds on both the low and higher water, and they were indeed, tough. We only managed to get three reds into the boat. The biggest was 9 pounds. Polly also caught a big 24 inch trout. Although it had been a slow day for reds, we did have our limit, and the Liebolds were happy. We have another trip scheduled next week, and snook will be the target species then.
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The extended forecast is for a whole week of warm weather with no fronts expected. With a little luck, that will bring some of the snook out of hiding, and make them a bit more active. We can hope!
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