The weather is hot and there are lots of boaters and angler out right now. This often makes the fishing a bit tougher for many. However, lately we have still been finding lots of big hungry fish. Especially if you are wishing to thrpw lures and sight fish. Getting out right at sunrise seems to really be the ticket. The first several hours of the morning fishing have been extremely active on the bank and blowing sheimp out of the water. Topwaters lures have also produced a lot of bites while covering water between where we see fish actively working. This bite has mostly been for redfish, however a big torut on the topwater has been a comlon occurence too.

These trips I recommend no more than two peope and typically takes a little bit of prior fishimg experience. However, there is mothing more fun in the inshore scene in my opinion. Picture a cool morning before a hot day, while the other guide boats have not even touched the water. As we make are initial drive out, we see a sunrise over the marsh and dolphins playing in the river. Right as the sun is just shining enough light to make our first casts, we pull into a shallow flat in just a foot of water. Each angler holds and artificial lure as we slowly ease around looking for wakes from actively feeding redfish against the bank. Suddenly we see 20 or 30 huge wakes on the bank and shrimp getting blown oht of the water. That is when you make your first cast and have a long powerful fight with some light 10 pound line. Taking advantage of these cool mornings is great right now, because during the first hour, the redfish are active enough that you can see their wakes as the feed up aggressively from a distance. The key is to cast well ahead of them and let them swim into where your lure is. You can also buy a few furocious bites on a topwater right now during these same conditions. As the days goes on, the redfish become a bit less active. We may still be able to use the sun to our advantage after it heats up by actually seeing one sitting somewhere or perhaps switch to a bit of structure fishing woth the same lures. Although we may not always, get as many bites as live bait trips doing this, the bites you do get are far more rewarding.

This trip is completely different from our typical inshore trips and only offered in the warm months. We fish through sunrise until about 9 am typically catching sharks and even Bull Reds sometime! It is great because of its short time frame and buget freindly ness. Today was our first shark trip of thte year and it went great! We were fishinf around 40 feet in the main part of the harbor. We caught a variety of sharks on whole mullet with most being right around 4 feet. They are definitely in thick right now!

The fishing is still good but you can definitely tell the fish are starting to feel the warm weather. Although fish can still be caught all day. I would say there is a significant difference made by going in the morning. The flounder have also shown up in suprising numbers. On this trip we actually caught more flounder than any other fish which is very rare. We caughtaround 7-8 flounder. Most came on ome spot. The key was a float with long leader to droft a mud minnow along the rocks. Along with this, we also caught some redfish and a trout fishing artificial shrimp along some oyster bars through out the day. This was an afternoon trip. As it continues to warm, I will start recommending more and more trips at first light assuming the tide sets up for it. The next couple of months I expect my morning trips to pose very good fishing.

The weather has been hot and the boaters are back on the water. I definitely have had to be more carefull about where we fish to get away from the other anglers. However, I seem to have found places to get away and have to myself. Overall, the fishing for me has been excellent. Today we had a low tide at sunrise which is a best case scenario for aoght fishing. The wayer is cool and light is low so the fosh ate actuve plus with the water. Is low enough you can see the ifha waking around. The first two hors od the day were excellent, there were wither tailing fish of fish blowing baot out of the water about as often as you could cast. They were all ready to eat too. After the sum got up, it did get a little tougher. At that point i am more keen to find some docks to throw shrimp at for the best numbers. There were also some nice sized trout in onw of the creeks.

This time of year can be very pleasent on the water, especially when the weather is nice which we have been very lucky with the last few weeks. The biggestt favtor to this, is there just are not that many other boats out and it allows us to really relax and do our own thing most days. Along with that, the fishing has been great. The redfish have been fired up and biting throughout the begining of the year. The trout were initially a bit slow after the snow storm but as of the last few days have started biting good again as well. The brackish trips are producing far more on the artificial front. Most of these have been fishing smaller lures around deeper 10 foot of water structure. You will also pick up trout and bass the same way. On the inshore front closer to the cost, the fish have been very keyed on baby shrimp and various baitfish fry. There are a few way to catch them. Pitching livebait in conjestion points at low tode where the fish group up has been done great and is my recommendation for the best numbers. However, many days there are also quite a few school available for sight fishing on the flats. The sight fishing has been significantly harder, however the fish can be caught by using very small (2inch) plastics and cast far in fromt of where they swim in order not to spook them. The trout have been hanging in the middle of some deeper bends of large creeks. When we do come across trout, my advanced live forward facing sonar helps ensure we are castimg right on top of these deeper schools. One perk about this time of year, is we can be very versatile, if there are specific ways you want to fish. Weather that is, standard live bait fishing, covering water with artificials around cover or wven soght fishing.