Great report and pics...thanks for sharing
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About 170 years ago, the catchphrase (+-) was "Go West Young man" to capitalize on the new found mineral abundance, hopefully, discovered in California. Well, although not a young man by birthdate, nor located in California, I did choose to come to Florida's West coast to accustom myself to Florida's way of things.
I have been relaying info on my fortunate opportunities in the Ozello region, but decided it was time to "head South old man", Homosassa to be specific. Some basic similarities but the offshore mangrove islands make this a great opportunity to hopefully show some skills.
My first, considerably inshore, cooler spot was assigned to a beautifully colored stout 21" Speckled trout taken on a Chartreuse 'lil John.
Offshore spot checks yielded trout and a bone jarring, unyielding opponent dressed in 6 lb. Jack Crevalle attire=fire up the smoker, baby.
After doing an offshore spot assessment with modest success, I chose the numerous red mangrove islands as my gold-sifting venue. My 1st, you gotta be kidding me lazer cast, produced an immediate strike which was an undersized, out of season Snook. Three casts later produced another wrist-breaking strike that made the drag sing but unfortunately the behemoth was headed for "quiet time alone" = inside the entangled red mangrove root system. Nothing I could do but refresh myself with the "fish prayer" and cross my fingers on my non-rod hand! I could see this substantial UFO(unidentified frying object,lol) thrashing significantly up inside the root maze. I carefully motored up in the 6 inch shallows and noticed that my 15 lb/8 yellow braid had sunk into the limestone encrusted bottom, key strategy here is to release all rod pressure, keeping fingers tightly crossed, still praying. All is good, a 26" out of season Snook, laying patiently confused with my hand lip-landing and subsequent glamour shots before being properly released.
A little later, same bait, yielded a beautifully proportioned, orange hued Redfish that easily made mid 20" range, but after a substantial battle the piscatorial combatant won out as I discovered his net allergy. Sorry, no pic.
Later on my palm-sized pinfish below a float alarm went off to yield another cooler invitee...delicious black-tip shark.
On the way back to the barn, I "sifted" another inland spot to yield a healthy 15" flattie destined for table-fare after cool down time in my REI 45L.
Actually caught and released 3 Snook in their more preferred warm water temp(83).
All in all, another blessed Florida water park "GOLDen" opportunity reward.
u2s
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Great report and pics...thanks for sharing
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Great day on the water!
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Very nice report!
I envy you fishing down there......what a variety of fish to catch.
Thanks for sharing!
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Wow Doug, ya doin great ! ! ! ! ! WTG ! ! ! ! !
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Thanks Steve totally agree with you, true mecca for saltwater variety seekers.
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Thanks for checkin' on me! CURIOSITY takes me there, SUCCESS ushers me back!Just Steve LIKED above post
Hey Danny, lovin the Brine bruisers!
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Thanks for checkin' on me! CURIOSITY takes me there, SUCCESS ushers me back!
Yep,.................... I've slipped into some kind of depression but not depressed, just sittin around the house , don't want to do nothing, sleep till 11am every day,
play with computer a bit, lay down, sleep more, repeat, reapeat..... Just don't want to do nothin ..........
"Teach a man to fish = he can feed himself "
"Teach the world to fish = you won't have any fish left to eat "
Nice crappie.
Tom
You’re just having too much fun. Great fish, when’s dinner?
Creativity is just intelligence fooling around