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duckmanJR
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Micco - Grant II
duckmanJR
Posts: 21,265 AG
After skipping yesterday because 5 AM had me in a torrential downpour at the house and weather radar said things were looking bad for a while in both IR and south Brevard...I went back to bed.
Today, Weather was marginal..at best..and I was a little slow getting going but launched in the grey at an empty parking lot at Christiansons landing. I started working the east side with a white head /clear fleck bodied CAL and picked off a little fella Snook...almost too small to be called one....I've used bigger mullet for bait!... Kept at it and the size of the snook increased on the next two up to about 22 inches...but still small. I found some good looking baits and one net toss has me a DZ. so i'm switching to bait.
I head to a new spot that is a trout edge and get the pick up right away but when I set the hook it is on and off just like that...:banghead . . Next bait...is picked up but before I get tight...spit out...:banghead
Nothing seen for quite a while after that but a break in the clouds and OH *****!....a nice Snook 20 feet at my 2 O'clock....perfect pitch....he swallows....and I limp wristed Sally the hookset...:banghead Oh come on...****....
Finally, put a bait in front of a hungry Red and get him....about a 22 incher...which now has me kinda upset that I not only messede up that nice snook but I am sure I've had my slam slip thru my fingers....but we're still in the game and I still have a shot. Next spot....I get another Red...this one is lassoed around it's head!
As I realease it I watch another nice snook push off the shore....Decide to try another Trout edge.....and they are there....several nice ones...but I can't get them interested. Next spot and i'm feeling snakebit....blow out a nice trout...but see a few up ahead and slide the mullet in quietly...10 :07 and there he is...slam #13
One last spot(where I lost my first trout this morning) and BANGO......Trout number 2...
10:25 and it's a double slam!!
Today, Weather was marginal..at best..and I was a little slow getting going but launched in the grey at an empty parking lot at Christiansons landing. I started working the east side with a white head /clear fleck bodied CAL and picked off a little fella Snook...almost too small to be called one....I've used bigger mullet for bait!... Kept at it and the size of the snook increased on the next two up to about 22 inches...but still small. I found some good looking baits and one net toss has me a DZ. so i'm switching to bait.
I head to a new spot that is a trout edge and get the pick up right away but when I set the hook it is on and off just like that...:banghead . . Next bait...is picked up but before I get tight...spit out...:banghead
Nothing seen for quite a while after that but a break in the clouds and OH *****!....a nice Snook 20 feet at my 2 O'clock....perfect pitch....he swallows....and I limp wristed Sally the hookset...:banghead Oh come on...****....
Finally, put a bait in front of a hungry Red and get him....about a 22 incher...which now has me kinda upset that I not only messede up that nice snook but I am sure I've had my slam slip thru my fingers....but we're still in the game and I still have a shot. Next spot....I get another Red...this one is lassoed around it's head!
As I realease it I watch another nice snook push off the shore....Decide to try another Trout edge.....and they are there....several nice ones...but I can't get them interested. Next spot and i'm feeling snakebit....blow out a nice trout...but see a few up ahead and slide the mullet in quietly...10 :07 and there he is...slam #13
One last spot(where I lost my first trout this morning) and BANGO......Trout number 2...
10:25 and it's a double slam!!
There are many roads to travel
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
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Joseph B...aka...Ancient Mariner
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I don't know how the fish did it...he didn't tell me.
It is looped around his mouth.....
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
Oh, o'k, i could understand that. I thought by the pic it looked like it went thru the eye. I am knda surprised he didn't tell you though.
A funny coincidence was that I saw Cap't Glynn Austin on his was south with his boat as I was northbound on US-1 ....and on my way home heading southbound...Glynn was heading North....Hope you slayed'm Cap't!
Anyway,I ran to the spot I almost got stuck....and almost got stuck again!...Man the river is low....and I can't understand it...I *heard* that the wind plays a major role in river height (not all that silly moon nonsense)...and with 6 days of screaming easterlies...you would think the water would be up piled up in the parking lot at the boat ramp...Hmmm, Must not be blowing hard enough yet....:huh
Anyhow, ran south and only saw one nice snook and I might have got a fast look at a trout...still kinda dark so I don't know. Spot after spot there was no windshadow...wind would swirl around every point having it come from all crazy directions.
By 8:30 I was hitless and had only seen those 2 fish...very strong skunk smell in the boat. I had 4 baits left over from yesterday but they looked terrible...Red nosed and fins all red and beat looking but I switched spots and pinned on a bait. 8:45 I get a nice Trout...skunks been killed. T
Tried a few spots way north...Mel beach... and almost had a snook...only the mullet ran back to the boat as the snook was chasing...but it saw the boat and left.
It was getting late...and I tried a cove and blew out a few nice trout. Decided since I was this far up north I would try one last spot....and between 10:50 and 11:03 I caught 3 nice mid twenties trout...they were stacked along this barren sand bar...and like a switch was thrown...they ate those junky looking mullet like they were starving.
So, that was it...4 trout...never even seen a Redfish...
Nasty ride back to the ramp....
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
Under tough conditions....it is the ONLY thing that will get you fish.
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you
Yeah, AFTER he caught it!!! Joke!!
I believe this reverses as you get up to cocoa and the ML
Yes... IN GENERAL ...that is correct Jason
BUT...since winter see's all manner of North and Northeast wind as the prevailing......And oddly enough we also have some of the lowest water of the year.....
There are more than one factor in the fluid dynamics of river water levels.
Many things to do.
Knots to be unraveled
'fore the darkness falls on you