Monthly Archives: June 2013

This week has been another great week of red fishing in the backcountry for my clients.  Monday we fished afternoon outgoing tide and had a really good redfish bite with four fish over the keeper slot limit between 28” and 30” with double-digit numbers in the keeper slot between 19” and 24”. 

The rest of the week was all early morning trips.  Tuesday through Thursday we fished the first of the incoming tide, catching 3 to 4 over slot fish in the 30” range with double digit numbers of keeper slot fish in the 19” to 24” range with a few right at 26”.  Friday through Sunday we were fishing the last of the outgoing catching double-digit numbers of keeper slot fish in the 19” to 21” range but no more over slot fish. 

 Throughout the week we caught a few undersize drum, a few nice trout and a couple small flounder.  Overall it was a very good week of fishing!

June 17 – 21

This week of fishing has been as good a week as you could ask for.  Monday started out with a fly rod first thing catching some real nice trout on the fly, then taking out the spinning rod.  For about three hours we stayed hooked up on upper slot redfish 24” – 26”, and over slot fish 27” – 32”. Then we finished the 6 hour trip at the inlet and back on the fly rod catching Jack Crevelle up to 5 lbs. 

The rest of the week was all redfish  – big numbers of slot fish and again averaging 2 – 3 over slot fish in the 28” – 32” range. The only day we didn’t catch the big numbers was Thursday’s half day trip, where about the time the tide was getting right we got run off the water by thunderstorms. We ended up with three slot redfish 18” – 27”, one over slot 28” fish, and one flounder about 3 lbs.  

June 4 – 15

Our water has recovered from the large amount of rain we had in the first part of May and the redfish have returned to the backcountry creeks that they like to live in. Fishing the back country has been pretty predictable and productive.  It has been so productive that I haven’t fished the Intracoastal waterway in a couple of weeks.  We have been catching good numbers of redfish in the keeper size slot between 18” – 27” and averaging 2 – 3 fish a day over slot between 28” and 32”. 

The black drum have been around in big numbers in the areas I’ve fished, but they have been mostly undersized.  Some of the guides I’ve talked with have been having success on the Intracoastal with speckled trout, but for me to go trout fishing when the redfish bite is on is hard for me to do unless the customer insists on catching trout

The first week of May brought ten plus inches of rain to the area. That much rain in a short amount of time turned the water fresh and muddy. The farther from the inlet you went the worse the quality of water you had. We had to adapt to the conditions by staying out of the backcountry and fishing areas on the intracoastal and close to the inlet. These areas produced plenty of redfish, trout, & black drum but you had to stay on your toes and keep moving because the fish were either moving around a lot or biting one day and not the next. By the third week of the month the water started getting back to normal and the red fish started moving back into areas of the backcountry were we normally fish for them. As of today June 3rd the fishing is on fire. Today we fished a half-day trip and did not keep count but I would guess we had at least a dozen black drum in the 2lb to 3lb range and probably 20 red fish between 20in and 32in long.