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.