Guided Ryan Ball this morning for a very short 3-hour trip. Ryan only wanted to concentrate on topwater baits and then head to work at 900am. To enhance our fishing time, I opened up the Yamaha Vmax 250 SHO and flew at 68.5 mph to out first area. First cast, big trout. Second cast, 5# redfish and so on and so on. Nearly every cast produced a quality speckled trout and one of five was a nice redfish. Most redfish were on the banks and the trout were on the slicks and in the bait. Only fished two areas but spent some quality time in each. All fish caught on the Sebile Bonga Minnows and Ghost...

Guided Kevin Kenner this morning to introduce him to some productive redfish and trout areas in Escambia, East and Blackwater Bays. Started at first light and make a long milk-run. As usual, we made a few casts in each area to make sure Kevin liked what he saw and all but a few areas were full of both redfish and trout. Many of these areas held tons of mullet, minnows and menhaden which made finding the fish pretty easy but some did not so we relied on slicks and on actually seeing the fish to determine the numbers in the area. Covered topwaters, suspending baits, Gulp! Jerkshads and Shrimp, Johnson Gold Spoons and even popping corks. Kevin will no doubt have many, many successful outings with his family in the very near future. All fish...

Guided the Folks this morning for a little birthday trip. Started very early as the fish have been most active from 530-800am. Ran to East Bay and threw topwaters with redfish and trout almost every cast. Incoming tide but low water meant the fish were off the banks where we found plenty of mullet and bait. Some great action for the first few hours and then it really shut down. After some adjustments we found some large trout willing to bite along Scenic Hwy. Wherever we found mullet, the trout were mixed in and really found some nice numbers of quality fish. Kept a few trout and a redfish for dinner and released the rest. We did see lots of flounder squirting off early along the banks but never boated one. Weird. Please click an image to...

Guided Edwin Yee and Jack today in Santa Rosa Sound. Started at first light with topwaters baits to grab some nice speckled trout and had a few redfish swing and miss. Not much mullet action this morning which made things tough for the redfish. Covered some very good areas and saw plenty of usually pretty cooperative redfish but just couldn’t draw a bite on spoons and Gulp! Jerkshads. Apparently, they are frustrated with the recent cold front and pressure conditions. I saw a few fish from long distance and still they wouldn’t bite. Picked up a nice flounder as well in the same areas. At least the fellas know where they are now and should be able to return to score big in better conditions. All fish released. Tomorrow has to be...

Guided Don Patterson today in Escambia and East Bays this morning in search of redfish and trout. Found plenty of trout to take our topwater and suspending baits but found the redfish to be very difficult with the high pressure, blue skies and cooler temperatures. Threw Gulp! Jerkshads to grab a couple small fish but nothing great. All fish released and hopefully tomorrow will be...