Spanish saw his shadow, Early Spring, maybe

[phatdaddy]

Beautiful day today, mid 70's, with light southerly winds. hadn't had the boat out in a couple of weeks, decided to go for it. no real plan, just get out. took a couple of light trolling rigs just because you never know. saw some bait being chased and dragged a couple of spoons through the area. ended up with 5 or 6 of these guys. this is about 4 weeks early water temp is 65*, never really got cold, so maybe spring has sprung.

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[Giorgio]

Nice!!!!

[Greyduk]

Did they go in some grease?

[phatdaddy]

Catch and release, greyduk. Except for one who was severely throat hooked, so he went in the freezer for grouper bait this summer.

[charlie_the_tuna]

man, a perfect day would be 6 or 8 of those on my ultralight setup, on a nice sunny day. don't take much.

[Greyduk]

I catch and release too, but I release them in some grease and serve with some garlic cheese grits. Maybe we could make a trip later this spring and see what we could snag. Good luck. Hope your weather holds out for a few more trips in the next couple of weeks.

[phatdaddy]

Yea, I messed up by not drifting into the school and casting a small spoon with a light spinning rod. Normally there are boats trolling in the area and if you drift, it gets in everybody's way. I had it all to myself saturday afternoon, so drifting was not a problem. I really was not expecting them to be here yet. My son is working midnights, so maybe when he gets off, we can go a little better prepped.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Thats alot better than I did yesterday. Didn't boat a single fish all day. I normally fish out of Chassahowitzka, but they had a tournament Saturday, so Sunday was a bust there. All those boats tore the river and shallow flats a new one. There was so much seabed grass everywhere it was sickening. Flats I was on a few weeks ago were basically sand bottom yesterday with all the grass floating. Should have went south away from the tournament, but I prefer Chass.

[charlie_the_tuna]

hey Ferm, what are you an hour or two from pine island?

[THEFERMANATOR]

hey Ferm, what are you an hour or two from pine island?

From one, but I think you're thinking of the one that's 3 hours to the south of me

[charlie_the_tuna]

I wasn't aware there was more than one. the one near cape coral. I gotta tell you i'm really leaning towards looking for a little place on the water down there. it looks nice and quiet. first I need to find out if my place in delray has a place to store a trailer boat.

[THEFERMANATOR]

My soon to be brother in law runs a charter business down in that area(he fishes out of Estero Bay). If they don't get a handle on the Lake Okechobee discharge, property values on the water are going to continue to plummet. The red tide and algae blooms down there is horrible.