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.

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.