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Weekday
fishing is awesome if you can get out of the office. Weekday fishing when it's
a little rainy and foggy is especially awesome. During the week there are far
less people out on the water, so more fish for me (at least that's my theory).
If the weather sucks, than all the better. Nobody fishes in crappy weather. Me,
I don't care. The fish gotta eat, regardless. I'll suffer through some rain and cold, even wind to a certain extent, to catch fish.
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Speckled Trout |
I was able to get out of work about
an hour early the other day with my boss and we took the boat out for about an
hour and a half and fished one of our lucky spots in the Southern end of the bay near Destin, FL where we kill it about 85% of
the time. It was pretty foggy and there was a light rain. When we got there there
were a few old-timers that were just leaving. They said they caught a couple
keeper Redfish and Speckled Trout, but threw them back.
I grabbed a live shrimp
out of the live well and hooked him underneath his horn, around his brain and
out his back and then threw him out in the water toward some docks about 30 - 40
feet in front of me. I had a 1/32 oz split shot a few feet above him for a
little extra weight to cast him out a little further and to get him to the
bottom quicker, about 14 feet down. BAM!!! Almost right away a 17-inch Speckled
Trout hit him. In the live well he went.
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Sheepshead |
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Sheepshead |
Not too long after that my boss had
something nibbling on a second pole he had used to throw a shrimp out while he
fished the other side of the boat. He set his rod down and set the hook on the
other. He ended up pulling in a nice 18-inch Sheepshead. And if you've never
looked inside a Sheepshead's mouth, well, lets just say you don't want to
stick any fingers anywhere near it. They have these teeth that look like sheep
teeth (hence "Sheep's head") except they have multiple rows going
back into their mouth. Freaky. They use their teeth to eat barnacles and
crustaceans. Next time I catch one I’ll take better pictures of its mouth so
you can see.
While we were screwing around with this fish another one took the
shrimp on the pole he had just set down. It was another Sheepshead, but it
got off. We didn't catch anything after that all the way until the sun had set
and it was dark. That's when I pulled another, "hey, this is my last cast
and then I have to get going," moment and, of course, that’s when I hooked
into an 18 inch Sheepshead, myself. This was the first time I’d ever caught
one. In the live well he went with the others and we took them back to the house.
I can’t wait to taste him.
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Fillets the size of dinner plates! |