No spot...

duckmanJR

Friday, I got out with a buddy. And while I did get a couple snook and a Trout..and some jacks my poor buddy just had jacks. So, when the opportunity to present to a Red came along...I gave him the shot. It was a good shot but the Red was not interested....and sadly, that was the only one we saw.

Yesterday, I had things going my way early...2 small snook...then a nice Red on a lime CAL.




Here is where it all went bad....3 hours of running to almost every little trout spot i knew...and it was one jack and...a croaker. Since a Trout is in fact in the croaker family...it is very close to a slam...without actually getting there. Hard to believe so much effort could go into not catching a trout...but with no more grassbeds...it can happen...apparently. :huh

Today I decided to try a few other spots early...they were empty. I ran south looking to put away a snook and wonder of wonders...a nice trout. a few casts later a small snook and i'm off on my quest. Still early and everywhere I go the water is very poor. I wind up with another snook...then another snook. The wind is wrong for most of my Redfish spots but I make a downwind approach on one of them...and get a quick look...but put the bait on the wrong end...no good. Keep searching for some water with any chance od seeing a fish...and after bumping a larger snook...I get the shot I need...and connect.



That makes #77


I kept looking and bumped one more that I just got too close to....then, found this guy.
He had no spot on this side...



He did have one on this side.... This 1 spotter is more rare than the multi's..so He's kinda cool.

Keep on Spoolin

Awesome work.

SpaceCoast Slayer

Nice catchin man... not every day you get a no spotter! I've only caught 3 or 4 of em over the years..

bryson

I think a one-spotter might be more rare than the naked ones! I've caught a handful of no-spotted reds, but I don't think I've caught any with just one!

duckmanJR

It would be interesting to know if the spot/no spot thing has been studied...and what the numbers are.

The multi's are pretty common...so much so that back when I fished a bunch of tournies...I won several for "most spots" categories...sometimes with only 4 or 5 spots but one time with 11.

It really is just a factor of luck...and catching enough fish to have a larger sampling.

duckmanJR

I was able to squeak out # 78 today....but it was not pretty.

" I woke today to the sound of thunder...."
" How far off..I sat and wondered..."
" Started humming a tune from 1972.." (not old enough for '62 :wink )

So, that song was how it started...I heard the thunder...and as I was getting woke up saw the flashes... Very shaky conditions.
Got coffee and fuel and drove thru drizzle to the ramp...but the ramp was OK...and the lightning had moved inland.

The first spot was empty...but the second had a snook. Kept moving and looking and pulled another snook.... got a big jack and a small Mangrove snapper before I found a bottom slot trout at 9:10...
The conditions were tough to sight fish. I saw a couple but it took a while to get this little guy.



Done by 11:15

Topwater Guy

Nice Joe, I drove thru the parking lot of Main St. launch ramp was a washing machine. Went by the overflow parking area.....From what I saw, I'm sticking with the "By the start of the Clam Bake" as a completion date. Bid Low and make all the money with Change Orders. Been by Barber St. lately?? Same thing!!:banghead

Keep on Spoolin

Topwater Guy wrote: »

Nice Joe, I drove thru the parking lot of Main St. launch ramp was a washing machine. Went by the overflow parking area.....From what I saw, I'm sticking with the "By the start of the Clam Bake" as a completion date. Bid Low and make all the money with Change Orders. Been by Barber St. lately?? Same thing!!:banghead

What is going on at the yatch club ramp?

Keep on Spoolin

Sorry, I just saw where duckmanJR posted the answer to my question in another place.

duckmanJR

Topwater Guy wrote: »

From what I saw, I'm sticking with the "By the start of the Clam Bake" as a completion date. Bid Low and make all the money with Change Orders.

I think you've got it.....

duckmanJR

Yesterday the weather almost made me turn around and head home. I got to the ramp and it was raining lightly and I could see lightning off in the distance.
I sat around drinking coffee and when it broke a little i launched with the idea I would not go far. It was breezy, dark, and the water was dirty...but got 4 Snook by 9 but got tired of being drizzled on.

This was the best one...

duckmanJR

Today in spite of more terrible weather...I was able to put #79 away.
Ramped in and ran to my first spot and started throwing the Lime CAL...and got a snook put away.
I spent a lot of time going here and there and only managed another snook and a jack. I went looking for a Red when we had a little window of more light but only saw 1...and it was not hungry. As I finished the spot I knew the mullet was beat...so, I tossed it at the point figuring it might get a snook...Nope, A nice trout! I'm feeling a little more confident but that waned as I got another refusal...then, I saw a nice one under a bush...and totally butchered the presentation.
I kept looking and was ready to pack it in...was actually turning out from the spot when I catch a fish sliding out from under the mangroves...made a decent shot...and....



So, That was it....Ran to a bait spot and caught a dz in case the weather is better tomorrow.