Capt.PeteRowney
12-02-2005, 11:12 PM
Greetings once again from Islamorada and the warm and sunny Florida Keys! How's that for all you snow shovelers! Well this week was once again a textbook fishing lesson: it all depends on the weather. Early in the week while conditions were windy, the temps remained warm. The waters around Flamingo were still very dirty and the bigger tides this week didn't help- Snake Bight had so much grass in it on the falling tide that you came up with a grapefruit sized lump of s#!$ as soon as you wet a line. Finding cleaner water was the key and fourteen redfish in two hours was proof enough- especially when it was in 100 ft. of shoreline. Red and white clousers did the trick. The jacks were thick as well. Wednseday was one of the nicer ones in a long while. Air temps were low 80's, water temps 74-76 and virtually no wind all day. It's funny what a little nice weather does to fish. In a two hour period in a a 100 yard stretch of shoreline we caught snook, tarpon, huge jacks and had shots on tailing bonefish and even permit! It was sick! Of course the following day it was blowing 20 mph out of the north and I was wearing a fleece most of the day. Needless to say the action had cooled with the temps. The wind continued to blow today- 20-25mph out of the north with morning air temps in the 50's! I thought I lived in Florida... Anyways, the sun was out and afternoon water temps warmed enough to give my friend John Furze his first snook- a beautiful 8 pounder that taped out at 30 inches. This was the followup to another nice fish that decided to release himself by hanging up on the bow-eye of my skiff! We had another eat but no hookup and although we saw another snook the day ended as such. Not bad for 4 hours, cool water temps and not the easiest of conditions. Finding water temps above 70 was the key. Until next time...
-Pete
-Pete