Mini fishing Report 5-8-14 – Freshwater
Weather: clear, mid 80’s, windy
Fished 5:00-7.00 PM
Location: Area Canal, Palm Coast, Florida
Catch: (9) Specks, (1) Bluegill Bream, (2) Warmouth
One of my fishing partners Rick Edwards and I put the kayaks in the water for a quick afternoon jig fishing trip in an area canal here in Palm Coast. We were fishing with a lead head jig with a tube body with skirt. The wind was a real challenge. Every time you got you kayak in position to drop a jig into a little hole in a floating dollar weed mat, the wind would push you off and you’d have to drop your rod and grab your paddle. Man it was a pain in the neck.
Anyway, we did catch some fish but we didn’t really set the world on fire. We caught a mixed bag of about everything, mudfish, bass, bream, warmouth and specks, just not that many of any one species. I lost one really nice speck right at the boat that would have probably went 1 1/4 lb.
We caught a number of bass but the jigs we were using were small and the bass were sized accordingly.
We caught a number of bream but the jigs were a little large for them and most of the bream bites just couldn’t get the bait in their mouth enough to get hooked. Had we been fishing with some crickets I believe we would have worked on them.
All of the fish were in cover and we did not pick up any fish in open water trolling.
The jigs were fished tight line style in and around the cover and weed mats along the bank. The bit was just a little weak.
I did discover a number of items on my yak that I need to repair before the next trip. Plus the yak is getting a new fish finder . More on that to follow.
Larry S.
Fishing Report – Bings Landing 6-29-13
Sat. June 29, 2013
Weather: Mostly cloudy with rain/thunder storms passing to North and South
Wind: moderate east winds, 8-10mph, light near dark
Pressure: 28.9
Major Feed: 5:25PM
Water: Water is still pretty dark though it was fishing an out going tide
Target Fish: Redfish, Trout
Fish caught: (1) Flounder, (1) Ladyfish, (3) Jacks, (3) Mangrove Snappers, (2) trout hooked/lost
I fished out of Bings Landing this afternoon. Though the weather was threatening I went ahead and took a chance and launched. There was actually a big storm on both sides of me but they skirted around and moved out over the ocean.
My plan was to fish some live mullet until late afternoon and then finish out the day with some top water action. I staked down along a deep bend in a creek drain and hooked my first fish within seconds of getting a bait in the water, a nice Snapper by just short of being legal. I did not have to many small finger mullet and the snapper were biting so fast I started cutting up larger mullet to save my livies. A fish would be on the bait within 30-45 seconds of it hitting the water! They just weren’t quite large enough to keep.
I had several hard strikes on live finger mullet that didn’t hook up. One completely scaled a 5″ mullet.
One thing that was different from the last time I fished here was that nothing would touch a fiddler crab? I caught some up on the way in but could interest a fish of any kind in one.
Finally, about 8:00pm with the tide still on the out going, the top water bit started! It was like you flipped a switch. My first clue was some surface striking. It was obviously a school of small predators by the multiple strikes happening all at once. I figured it was a school of jacks but quickly grabbed my top water rod and offered up a 5M18 MirrOlure. It immediately drew attention and a nice jack boiled up on the plug. I ended up getting three of them to the boat.
I did have two trout on but they managed to tear off which is not uncommon on top water. I probably had another 10-12 good strikes that did not hook up or were on only briefly.
I picked off another nice ladyfish that really put on a show. Once I got her up to the boat she almost jumped right up into my face. It would not be the first time I’ve been seriously hooked by one of the hyper fish. You really need to be careful with them when multiple hooks are involved.
Within about 35 minutes it was all over and the waters calmed. Not even a mullet disturbed the surface after that point. The only fish I brought home was a 15″ flounder.
Though the trip was not that productive……that 30 minutes of hot top water bite made the paddle worth the effort.
OH! Almost forgot……on the way over I scouted the beach……Pogy pods everywhere!! Every time I stopped I could see schooled up pods as far as I could see with my 10×32’s. I did not see any action in them though. If work allows, I’ll check this out one morning this week.
Larry S.
Fishing Report 1/15/11 – Sheepshead
Jan. 15, 11 – Port Orange, Fl., mid-day
M.F.= 1:15 pm +/-
Temp.: 37-63 deg. (mid 50 while fishing)
wind: N @ 5 to 14mph, gust to – mph
I was mainly using a 7′ med.heavy rod with an okuma 65 spinning reel with 20 lb. mono. and 30lb leader. That rig is a little heavy for the fish we were catching but you can run into a lot bigger sheepshead and some large drum which put up a little more fight than the sheepshead.
It is a good idea to bring along a down sized rig as a backup. Sheepshead can be shy to bite and sometimes require some lighter line and leader.
The tide was just barely going out when we got there so we had to fish thru a slack tide but still managed to pickup a fish or two. Once the tide did start in it was going against a pretty good north wind and never really flowed very strong.
The moon was visible but at about the 9:00 position when we started fishing and I felt like we were really in between the bite. By the time the moon was getting about right we’d had about all we could stand. The temp was in the 50’s but in the shade of a boat house and a 10-15 mph north wind it was
c o l d! Earlier that morning, by the time we had caught our bait I had worked up some heat and was thinking about shedding my long johns….I wouldn’t have made it very long had I done that. I had brought some insulated bibs and a jacket but left them in the truck……I sure could have used them!
Larry S.
Fishing Report – Mosquito Lagoon
Friday, Sept. 10, 2010
I directed Len to the “canoe slew“ it’s a sand bottom strip where a guy in the red canoe usually fishes. I pulled up just off the opposite corner of the island tip (“the sink hole”) and cast a jig towards the bank…fish on, lady, 2 nd cast…fish on, 3 rd cast…fish on……..all lady fish. They were thick as flies. Nearly every cast produced a fish but we were not there for lady fish. Our target was bull reds! I moved 150yds east to the sand holes I like to fish. It was pretty slow on the trout and redfish side. Finally, I set the hook on a 27” red and he ended up on the stringer.
Len was on the catfish and ended up catching a dozen or more. He did catch a 17” red at that spot before leaving and moving to my hole as I had left to prowl the flat looking for fish sign. I got into some lady fish back in the n.e. corner of the flat that were a little larger. Picked up one tiny trout. Len came over the radio…fish on! And landed a 21” red. I headed his way to take his picture and then moved back to the “sink hole”. The mullet activity was starting to pick up. I caught a bunch more ladyfish and a small trout. After a bit I saw the line of my free line mullet rod moving off to the left….and put a 17” trout on the stringer. Picked up a few more ladyfish on the jig rod. I was fishing a curly tail, white/silver/silver glitter, tipped with a strip of mullet.
We made this trip knowing the fishing would be off but wanted to prove out a theory that the fish feed here based on the solunar tables and so far they have been right.It may be a while before I can get back here with bow season about to start.
Len's Black Drum Daytona Beach, Fl.
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