JOHN HAMMERS 'EM!!!

What a great crew I had the pleasure of fishing with yesterday! The wind and wave report looked decent for the morning but, of course, when we got out there in the Gulf, we were looking at fairly consistent one foot plus seas and strong winds coming out of the West. I checked with my crew and they said let's do this so away we went. Mark, Beth, Dave (who was a little camera shy) and Kathy stuck it out through some pretty adverse conditions and managed to catch quite a few fish. Kathy started things off with a hard fighting Jack, Beth put a keeper Trout in the box, Dave caught a nice Redfish, and then proceeded to get a couple jumps out of a 100 lb Tarpon! At the end of the day he said he will be seeing that Tarpon in his dreams tonight?. They caught multiple species including the aforementioned Redfish, Seatrout, Jacks, as well as Flounder. All of our stops except one produced fish, with at least ten,17 and 1/2 to 17 and 3/4 Redfish in the mix. Dave finished off the day with a keeper Redfish and Beth jumped another Tarpon right before we headed back to Yankeetown Marina. Captains Cove came through again today with some nice live shrimp in the middle of our annual shrimp shortage, as well as some decent size mud minnows. All of our different baits had good success catching fish, and the good Lord supplied us with a nice lady fish for cut bait which worked real well also! My crew really fished hard in some tough conditions, with the seas getting up to 2 ft+ at times and steady wind at about 15 mile an hour plus before we decided to call it a day and head back to port. It was another blessed day fishing with a fantastic crew out in God's Country!

Such a blessed day out in God's Country yesterday with two of my good friends Johnny and Billy! This was a scouting trip so it was all about exploring new areas targeting Redfish and Seatrout. We did real well as we caught about 20 Redfish. As expected, the trout were spread out but we managed to put 10 in the boat, and kept three. Not much current or wind for a drift so we moved around on the trolling motor out on the flats to find the Seatrout. We also sight fished a 50 to 60 lb Tarpon in 2 1/2 ft of water while hunting Redfish. Got four nice jumps out of him before his last violent head shake snapped the 30 lb leader like it was 5 lb leader?. Man that was a cool fish! Later on, Billy sight fished a Tripletail out on the flats as well. While we were Trout fishing, Billy also put out a few bigger live pinfish under a float for sharks. He got some exciting drag pulling off of that. Although he did have a lot of cut offs and half eaten baits, he still managed to get a few sharks to the boat on light tackle. All in all it was a great scouting day and another incredible adventure out in God's Country!!!

John rang the dinner bell yesterday catching some nice Flounder and Seatrout out in God's Country! Also caught Redfish, Snook, Gag Grouper, a couple of huge Rays, and various other species while bouncing around different flats, rock piles, oyster bars and islands. Another blessed day of fishing new areas of this vast Yankeetown fishery.