I live in Port Charlotte, FL on a canal with access to the Myakka River near El Jobean, FL and Charlotte Harbor. I own a boat and I love to fish. I'm new to Florida so I'm learning a new kind of fishing and I thought a record of fish caught, weather, tides, etc. for each trip would help me to learn quicker. That record is what you'll find in my blog which I post as soon as I possibly can so check before you're going out, my success or failure might help make your trip more productive.
High Tide: 9:00 AM 1.3 FT Low Tide: 2:00 AM 0.0 FT Wind: 0-5 NE Air Temp: 72/91 Water Temp: Clarity: murky
I forgot to go buy shrimp yesterday so we decided to fish the Gulp and green backs if we could get them, which we did. We left the dock about 6:00 AM and spent about a half hour netting a couple dozen rather small green backs.
When we hit the sea walls at the end of the Apollo Waterway about 6:45 AM there were fish popping all along the walls. I started throwing the Gulp and about the 4th cast I got a small mangrove snapper. I dropped the anchor and threw a green back with a small split shot. But it was the Gulp that produced everything this morning. I had a lot of missed hits and got about 5 snapper in the boat, the biggest went 13 inches but only 2 were over the 10 inch limit. Some where in there I got a small sail cat on the Gulp too.
I did lose a few fish that picked up the little green backs but none appeared to be of any size and a few may have just been crabs. I tried them on the bottom and under a cork, under the docks and in the shallows in the reeds but the Gulp was definitely the producer for the day. And the day was very entertaining but about 10:00 AM it slowed down and started getting hot so we called it a beautiful morning on the water and headed home.
