Got out this morning for a half day with Mike and Tracy visiting from Oklahoma. We got out at 7 and had plenty of fresh live shrimp. It was a bit rough so we skipped the patches and decided to make a run a bit further into the near gulf. After 50 minutes or so the wind laid down nicely out there and wasn’t too bad. The water was very dirty on the way with some algae, but luckily once we got a mile or so from the spot I wanted to fish, it cleaned up very nice. The tide was just starting in and as soon as we put the chum out some fish were showing up. We got a couple nice mackerel after a few casts, and continued to catch them for the next couple hours. Not a red hot bite, but some good little flurries and picked them along the way, plus plenty of blue runners and a few yellowtail and mangrove snappers. We probably ended up with 20 or so mackerels for a very nice morning. We came in around 11 to get ready for thanksgiving. I have plenty of open dates in early December and later in the month, it’s a great time of year for fishing the gulf or everglades so look me up!
