Cudjoe Back Country

sparse grey · October 2014

Pretty full day Thursday. Had the firstay in awhile so we went towards the Gulf, slight E breeze, water temp 81.3 very slow outgoing tide. Slow drift on some structure just before the water starts drop calm dping to the gulf using intermediate line with clousers & seducers had several decent fish & then this guy took on the last cast. I don't get many legal muttons on the fly but enjoyed the aggresive fight.

As the 15th was opening of stone crab season, checked my traps & got nine claws.

The good weather continued & after Church in the evening we finished the day with a little bully netting. Starting to get the hang of this.

Nice end to a pretty full day.

ShallowSalt · October 2014

That's not a bad opener for crab season. I would have been happy with a one per trap haul... Hopefully next pull looks as good as yours. And I wish my wind looked like that first picture. I felt like I chose the lesser of two evils by going south to the patch reefs, then ran up into the Niles area in the afternoon where the wind still seemed like it was howling.