HOT!HOT!HOT!

The weather that is. The fishing according to all the local guides is "on fire" right now. The truth is there are "dinks" everywhere. Its no big deal to go out and catch 40-50 trout...all in the 13-14 inch range. Finding good trout is harder. A number of times in July I fished pinfish in the deep holes under both causeways and came away wondering if the Democrats had given all the trout away. Even finding good keeper trout on shrimp is hard. If you fish the dropoffs along the ICW you can usually bang out a limit or two. My experience lately has been if we bring in a single limit we are doing good.
The redfish are to be found, but it seems the same story...they're either 19 or 39inches, finding good keeper reds is hard. Most of ours are coming on gold spoons.
Now one exciting point is that we are taking some good snook in South Bay. Most are early on topwaters back in some parts of the bay that I am told that certain guides have "real estate deeds" to and would like to put up "POSTED/NO TRESPASSING" signs in. I've been checking out how one purchases this water!!
We have been catching a few really good trout by wading. The Long Bar flats have produced several 27inchers in July and the Brownsville Channel flats have given up a number of 24-26's.
Normally I don't fish in the late afternoons, but yesterday I got an itch and decided to wade a couple of hours on an outgoing tide. It was a good decision. In less than an hour I had a limit of 20-24's, all taken on Nortons. Maybe I'll be back there this afternoon!

Take care....see ya at the Doctors Tournament !