First of all I have to say what a gorgeous day it was out in God's Country yesterday! It's always a blessing to fish with my good buddy John, but we both commented how it was a welcome change not to have to battle the wind all day. That being said the Redfish bite was spectacular yesterday. There was lots of bait everywhere and the Redfish were chewing. From the first stop on, we were hooking up with quality Reds. We didn't want to over fish any one spot because I have charters coming up, so as soon as we caught one or two slot fish at a particular location, we would move again. We caught eight nice slot Redfish and over 20 Redfish total, which shows how healthy our Red fishery is. If we'd have stayed on the spots longer I'm sure we would have easily doubled our keeper size production. Also caught some nice Black Drum, Sheepshead, and John caught a few nice keeper size Flounder. Unfortunately the Flounder is out of season right now until the end of the month so they all went back in the pond. We kept some Redfish, Black Drum, and Sheepshead for dinner, but the majority of the fish went back to fight another day. It's always a blessing fishing with John as we have a ton of fun, catch a lot of fish, and bust each other's chops all day?!

Fished with my good friend John yesterday in the Gulf of America. The Redfish are really starting to show up now. We caught them in all size ranges, including some nice slot fish and overslot fish. We caught and released Redfish, Black Drum, Flounder, and Jack Crevalle. John kept one nice middle slot fish for dinner. We threw a lot of different baits, but live shrimp from Captains Cove on a jig head seem to be what they preferred today. Stopped by Brooks Dockside Seafood food truck and picked up my favorite blackened grouper BLT sandwich along with an order of blackened shrimp tacos to bring home to my wife which topped off another incredible day in God's Country!

I first met Tom a couple month's back at the Tampa Airport . He was waiting for his daughter, and I was waiting for my wife, who coincidentally happened to be on the same delayed flight from LA. We got to talking and realized we both love to fish, and I told him what I do for a living and let him know how wonderful our fishing is here on the Nature Coast. Man, The Good Lord really has a way of bringing the right people into your life. He contacted me soon after and set up a 1/2 day fishing charter for himself and his good buddy Vong. It turned out to be such a blessing to have these guys on the boat yesterday. As I have said many times before when you spend time fishing together you get to know each other very well, and we discovered we all had a lot in common, especially our love for fishing, and construction as well. These guys caught a lot of fish, including Redfish, Seatrout, Black Drum, Mangrove Snapper, Sand Trout, and Jack Crevalle. After the charter, I sent them to Blackwater Grill Yankeetown for lunch. They stopped back by the marina afterwards and let me know that lunch was delicious, and that they talked about how much fun they had and decided to book another trip in September... Looking forward to another trip with Tom and Vong!!! You won't hear me say this very often but thank you Lord for the delayed flight in Tampa?