Warm Weekend = HOT BITE
March 22, 2026 Crystal River 1 photo
Redfish
Redfish
Speckled Trout
Speckled Trout

Trip Summary

After what was hopefully the last cold front of the year, the afternoon on saturday brought us a nice warm up and a strong incoming tide. My solo client and I went out on a mission to catch a bag of fish for dinner. We started out targeting some trout on artificial, we had success on both a jerk shad on a jig head and prawn star worked under a popping cork. Once the tide was about half way in we transitioned to red fish and made quick work of finding a nice lower slot fish and had him back to the ramp and home in plenty of timetoncook them up for dinner the same night.
Steven Smith
Crystal-river, Florida, United States
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