Fish Caught: Lady Fish, Jack, Mangrove Snapper

High Tide: 3:30 PM 2.3 FT Low Tide: 9:00 AM 1.1 FT Wind: 0-5 E Air Temp: 73/93 Water Temp: 88 Clarity: muddy

We left the dock at 6:15 to take full advantage of the cooler morning weather. I have been able to net bait fish at some point in the canal but this morning I couldn't find any. So when I reached the Myakka I threw some plastics and popers with no luck. Unfortunately I am out of my favorite Gulp Swimming Mullets. I poled the boat into some shallows with grass edges but all I netted there were tiny things that looked a lot like baby pompano or maybe jacks. but they were only an inch or less in length so useless as bait. So we took a ride out to the El Jobean bridge to see if we could get some bait out there, but again I didn't see any. So we went over to the Tiki Bar and picked up a couple dozen live shrimp. I fed a few shrimp to what I suspect were Mangrove Snappers under the bridge but it was slow action and hot in that sun so we moved back to the Apollo Waterway ant threw the shrimp under the dock by what we call the "Hunt Home". We had a little better luck there with Snappers but small. A lot of action behind the dock but we couldn't seem to attract the attention of whatever was feeding back there. So we headed home. Our neighbors, Bimini and Julie were parked in one of there favorite spots so we tied up and shared our last shrimp with them. We got a lot of small stuff like cat fish, mangrove snapper, ladyfish and one decent sized jack. There was a little more breeze there but it was still very hot so after the last shrimp we headed for home and the pool.

Labels: Jack, Lady Fish, Mangrove Snapper

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