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Thursday, it was time to hit the jetties, as light-to-moderate winds and clear, sunny weather set in following days of terrible conditions.
Polly and I made a beeline for the North Jetty and arrived around 8:30 a.m. to find poor tidal movement but good water conditions.
After about an hour, we moved to the Bolivar beach front where action picked up with specks, Gulf trout and reds feeding.
When
the bite stopped, it was back to the North Jetty where only a large
sheepshead was caught with the tide moving and water clarity good.
The last stop was the Gulf side of the South Jetty, where the larger fish were biting.
Sharks
and jack crevalle wore us down during the midday heat and it was back
to the dock around 1:30 p.m. with a nice mess of trout to clean.
Speaking of trout, my longtime friend on the west end, Marie Brocato, called to say the trout action in her canal has been unbelievable.
Tommy Brocato,
her nephew visiting from Shreveport, La., has been catching large
numbers of sow specks off her dock with the action beginning around 5
p.m.
During the daylight hours, Mansfield Maulers were the ticket, followed by free-lined live shrimp during the evening.
Not only were the quantities and quality of the fish surprising, but the fact they began biting before dark was unusual.
Marie asked me if I thought the mass of seaweed along the beach front drove the trout into the area.
Obviously,
I don’t know; however, I agreed with her that I had never heard of such
action on trout in the canal on which she lives.
It sounds like that is where I should have been fishing Thursday.
On
the offshore scene, the party boat Capt. John made one of its tuna
safaris last week fishing Salvador Ridge and the Spar Platform well more
than 100 miles offshore.
The
27 anglers aboard brought back full (two-day) limits of red snapper,
235 blackfin tuna, 143 vermilion snapper, 10 Dorado, three amberjack and
a skipjack tuna.
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