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[djohn71]

I'll apologize for the absence of pictures, but with high wind and waves, I was a busy boat captain.

Short version:
Fished 7-11 am on Sunday.
Hot spots were the east flats south of Pita and the edge of the ICW. Drifting with a cajun thunder float and live shrimp, and white with limetruese paddle tail soft plastics were the best bait. 4 specs 17-19 and a nice 20" drum. Multiple skippies and lots of bait takers.

My work buddy begged/asked me into taking his father-in-law and brother-in-law out Sunday morning for a half day trip. I already had a BBQ planned for Sunday evening, so I told him a half day would be fine. Winds were scheduled to be 30+ out of the SE, pretty much like my last four trips. They are nice guys who usually bass fish, so a little salt air is a treat for them.

Stopped by CosWay on Saturday night to pick up shrimp and fill the live wells. Shrimp were small, but servicable.

Got up early and found the winds ripping palm fronds off the trees. The crew arrived about 6:45 and we were on the water by 7 am. Slid down new Humble channel from the ICW towards Pita. With whitecaps in the 5' gut we headed high in the flats near the ICW.

My buddy is an artificials/wade fisherman, but his inlaws are bass fishermen, so I offered to coach and deck hand. They managed a drum and two chunky specs on the first drift in the chocolate milk. Cunado was skunked.

When the father-in-law took a smoke break, I baited up a shrimp and made a cast. Three pops of the Alameda rattler and I boated a nice 19" spec. I put the rod up before I was tossed overboard.

Next drift surrendered two hard-heads, multiple skipjacks, a trophy piggy perch and some dinks.

Headed to the edge of the ICW and anchored up at "the spot". My buddy and his cunado decided to wade the edge with soft plastics, which yielded another few specs while the suegro and I stayed dry on the boat. Coming back into the canals we had whitecaps by the ski basin.

Back to the house by 11 and the boat was washed and put up by noon. My tourists had a great time, even when the winds gusted up to 40.

A quick nap and I was back up grilling three racks of baby backs and sausage. Not to bad.

Please be careful in the high winds. Know your boat, know the waters, have a float plan, know when to call it a day.
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Johnny D

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[robul]

great report.. probably saw me out there as well..I was " in the area"

thanks for sharing