021207
Today I am at Flamingo, my anglers are Jimmy and Greg, they are part of a 5 boat company trip. The weather was windy and raining steady. We got up on top of the flats and started poling looking for Redfish. It didn't take long and there was a big tail waiving at us. I held the boat steady into the wind as the guys made their cast, these are tough conditions when you have never done it before. They cast several times each, Greg's line straightened out and I told him just start winding he ate you Gulp! The Redfish fought really hard, when we got him next to the boat we realized why. It was big, the fish measured about 32 inches and was around 9 1/2 lbs. We continued this sight fishing until the tide made us move. The next spot produced again, this time we were casting Gulps at the mud's on the flats. These mud's are caused by Redfish eating on the bottom. Jimmy hooked another big one over 30 inches and then Greg had a couple small ones, the action continued for about an hour. There were 3 boats line across catching decent Reds. This was all done in a driving downpour and plenty of wind. As we were drifting off the flat Greg and Jimmy were freezing but kept casting . Everyone else headed to the Ramp we stayed out about an hour more. It was worth it non stop action with Trout, Bluefish, Ladyfish, Jacks and then Jimmy hooked a Tarpon; this really made the day.
021307
I'm with Jimmy again today, he has the boat all to himself. We started out on the Redfish again this morning. The tide was low and the fish were cruising and tailing pretty good. Jimmy had a couple shots right off the bat but the cast were of a bit, I think the fish was actually taunting him to make a good cast. The big Red would move just as he would cast this went on for 20 minutes, it actually got funny. The skies were black with rain but no wind when all of a sudden there was a crack of lightning, it was very close. It got our attention as well as all the other boats. I told him lets time the lightning flash to the thunder and it will let us know how far away it is. Poling a boat with 22 feet of graphite in your hands is not the smartest thing to do in the lightning, but there were tailing fish. The bigger schools were ahead of us and I attempted to catch them before we died! The lightning cracked again and then thundered right behind it, the flash was within a mile. It was time to go and I wasn't the only one there was a race to the marina. We sat there for 3 hours, the storm finally passed and the sun came out. Jimmy wanted to see some sun while he was in Florida and at least have a little sunburn to show for his days here. He got his wish the sun shined like it's supposed to and he got his sunburn. He managed to hook a really nice Snook on a twitch n rap, we did see plenty of fish but the were shut down. He was sun burned and happy.
021407
Today's trip was of different, 3 boats and the people had no interest in fishing after about a hour. We had a language barrier they spoke only French and we did not. I had Maxim and his wife and 2 daughters, we anchored up and caught a bunch of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish. After an hour of fishing they asked if we could take them to a beach so they could eat lunch. We did they sat around drank a couple bottles of wine some beers and took a short "Siesta". We took them sight seeing and looking at Porpoises and they called it a day.
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