I took a quick trip on a high incoming tide to Cockroach Bay in the kayak last weekend. I didn't get any photos but it was a snook catching kinda morning. Unfortunately, the fish weren't very big but the numbers added up to 12+ snook so I can't argue with that. Add a couple of smaller reds and some good mangroves and a nice sheepshead it was a pretty good morning.
Well onto this morning. Loaded up the skiff and picked up Tony and headed down to Fort De Soto to fish a low incoming tide. We got some good shrimp and were in the water and fishing pretty quickly. We headed to flat that Greg and I fished two weeks ago and starting working top water. It didn't take long to get on the board and I was first up with a smaller trout. We worked some pot holes with some shrimp and I got a pinfish that I quickly turned into cut bait and produced this.
That fish was a hair over the slot and after removing the piece of metal stringer that was in his mouth it got a second lease on life and will hopefully join the breeders and head off to make some more reds for the future. In the same pothole a few casts later Tony connected on this great trout on topwater. We thought nice red at first but after that first head shake closer to the boat it was time to change the fight and ease off a little.
After that I kept looking for those groups of reds to pop up but we never saw them so we headed to some old oysters that Tony used to fish and within the first couple of casts around them I caught a 20 inch red that got to go back in since I already had some dinner with Tony's trout. We didn't really find anything else there so we went to another deep hole and caught a couple more trout and a smaller flounder before we ran out of shrimp. It was time to call it a day since the UGA game was early but with all the boat traffic and quickly warming temps we will save that all day adventure for some shorter days in a month or so.
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