Fished with Coast Guard member PJ today. PJ wanted to learn some different techniques and areas to produce more redfish in the Pensacola area. Today was a difficult day for catching at Redfish University. Plenty of fish in a few areas and very few in others. Sightfished many small schools of redfish as well as singles. End up up catching one decent redfish and pulled the hook on a few more. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful day to be fishing and I was able to cover tons of material and instruction as the fish weren’t exactly cooperating. I scheduled a makeup trip with PJ at no charge in hopes we will catch more fish. We will hammer then next...
Read MoreSightfishing Excellence at Redfish University-November 5, 2008
Fished with Jeff Russell this morning in East Bay. Jeff’s girlfriend secretly booked a Redfish U. session for his birthday so I wanted to make his experience extra special with some shallow water sightfishing. Started out with a quick milkrun through East Bay on some shallow muddy bottoms and picked off several very nice fish. As the water dropped, we made our way to some very shallow grass areas where we found 25-30 tailing redfish along a 500 yd stretch of bank. As I quietly poled, orange tails were flopping everywhere and Jeff made some awesome presentations with weedless Gulp! Shrimp and Jerkshads which resulted in some classic hookups. I even got to back up Jeff a few times on the rare occasions that he didn’t stick a fish!! Ended up with about 25 quality fish which were all released...
Read MoreJune 17,2008-West Bay Redfish at Redfish University
Guided Mr. Patrick Small this morning in West Bay as a part of a three-part series to the east concentrating on redfish and tarpon. I hated seeing that full moon when I left Pensacola at 215am and knew we would have to stick our fish early and before they entered the grass. Popped one very nice fish immediately and missed a few follow-up opportunities. Plenty of fish but very, very uncooperative and hidden in the flooded grass. Actually had a sightfished redfish blow out a Gulp! Crab today which isn’t too surprising since it was probably jam packed full of real crabs from its overnight feast. Got a few fish and dropped a few more. Also landed a nice 4# speckled trout. We will return to West Bay next week for an opposite tide and then to St. Joe for some tarpon action afterwards. All fish caught on 1/4oz. Johnson Spoons and 5″ Gulp Jerkshads in camo. All fish released. *On a full moon, get to your fish early and use small baits for best...
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