These guys took a day off to go fishing. They took this catch to a local restaurant for a big lunch. These days you have to be prepared to catch a ton of catfish between the more desired reds, trout sea bass and occasional flounder. At least the cats keep you busy. The trout bite is good but, true to summer patterns we caught a bunch of just short trout and sea bass. Good times were had by all.

After an unfortunate prop collision with a rock, I thankfully got to borrow my sons boat to pull off this trip without cancelling and disappointing these Geargia boys. After a few days of most guides catching "shorts" we managed a respectable haul of 3 flounder a sheepshead, a black drum and a Mangrove snapper. They were accompanied by some jacks and other short flounder and black drum. At the end of the day a nice meat haul for dinner. It's already very hot. I'ld suggest get out early and get back before the Florida oven heats up!

Had the pleasure of meeting new friends from Pennsylvania, black drum on the menu. Flagler is still dealing with dirty water from the effects of Ian and really high tides but, the black drum have showed up. The catch all day consisted of these and small reds a sheephead some snapper and a mixed bag of other fish. No big drum but plenty between 14 and 16 inches. The fellas put the breaks on the take when enough was caught for dinner. As fall rolls along the bite will only get better and the sheepshead should start going off any time.

Today not as hot of a bite as desired but still managed some fish and good times had by all!

Spent a morning scouting for new "holes" Saturday 1/16/21 in the creeks off the river. It was very windy and cold making early fishing tough on the outgoing tide. As the day warmed up and the water got lower had success finding 3 more spots that all produced either trout or redfish. Nothing huge but, the reds were all 16 to 20 inches and some small trout. I tried some new baits as well but, the old faithfuls were what worked. DOA paddle tails with 1/8th jig head or the same jig with a shrimp. Used a #2 wide gap hook with a split shot about a foot up with live shrimp too and that has always worked well.

With the recent temperature swings fishing in the Crystal River area has been fickle. Tough one day and on fire the next. It's all about the fronts and moon in my opinion. When good the sheepshead are in and plenty of trout popping on corks in the creeks. My best times are low tide either outgoing or incoming.