A low weather pressure system that has been sitting off the coast has wreaked havoc with fishing this past week. The strong gusty northeast winds kicked up the ocean to the point it almost looked like a hurricane with waves crashing and hitting the bottom of the pier and tearing up the dunes along the beach. I live on the mainland side of Flagler Beach and the surf was so rough I could hear the loud roar of the surf when I stood in my yard. I hope this is no indication of what is to come now that we are in hurricane season, lets hope not.
Tuesday morning I stopped at Roy’s Bait House at 8am to see if there was a fishing report and he told me that Hap Meekins was able to make it offshore before the blow for a 9.01 lb grouper, 2 cobia to 28.01 lbs and 12 mutton snapper. Rick Stevens had 3 flounder to 3 lbs. Other than those two things there’s not much else to report.
The northeast winds have also made for extremely high tides in the ICW and the backwaters. All you had to do was drive over the rte. 100 bridge and look at the marshland off the ICW to see how high the tides were. These high tides will make for difficult fishing until they recede. The high water just gives the fish access to places that they normally can’t get to and neither can we.
I don’t normally talk about freshwater fishing in this column but I came across an interesting web site the other day. If you’re into the BASS tournament trail you can find out how life really is on the tour by going to http://www.toyotafishing.com/. If you thought the tour was all glamour this site might change your mind about your dreams of becoming a pro angler.
On the saltwater side the Florida Guides Association has a new web site forum out, http://www.flatsfishing.com/. Here you can ask advice from professional guides from around the state. It covers everything from freshwater to saltwater and everything in between.
By the two web sites I have given you I guess you know what I do when I can’t get out and fish. Maybe, just maybe we will start to see some consistency to our weather pattern for this time of year and I will have more to report next week. Until then say a prayer to the fish gods.
Photo: Jason Murphy and Dennis McDaniel show off some nice trout and a flounder they caught recently while visiting our area.
Tuesday morning I stopped at Roy’s Bait House at 8am to see if there was a fishing report and he told me that Hap Meekins was able to make it offshore before the blow for a 9.01 lb grouper, 2 cobia to 28.01 lbs and 12 mutton snapper. Rick Stevens had 3 flounder to 3 lbs. Other than those two things there’s not much else to report.
The northeast winds have also made for extremely high tides in the ICW and the backwaters. All you had to do was drive over the rte. 100 bridge and look at the marshland off the ICW to see how high the tides were. These high tides will make for difficult fishing until they recede. The high water just gives the fish access to places that they normally can’t get to and neither can we.
I don’t normally talk about freshwater fishing in this column but I came across an interesting web site the other day. If you’re into the BASS tournament trail you can find out how life really is on the tour by going to http://www.toyotafishing.com/. If you thought the tour was all glamour this site might change your mind about your dreams of becoming a pro angler.
On the saltwater side the Florida Guides Association has a new web site forum out, http://www.flatsfishing.com/. Here you can ask advice from professional guides from around the state. It covers everything from freshwater to saltwater and everything in between.
By the two web sites I have given you I guess you know what I do when I can’t get out and fish. Maybe, just maybe we will start to see some consistency to our weather pattern for this time of year and I will have more to report next week. Until then say a prayer to the fish gods.
Photo: Jason Murphy and Dennis McDaniel show off some nice trout and a flounder they caught recently while visiting our area.