Well yesterday was a wash and I’m glad I had planned to have it off. It rained all day up around the mainland, and quite a bit down here, as well as blew 25 mph out of the south. I was thinking today it’d be a tough day as the water temps dropped back to around 70 in the backcountry, plus it was blowing 15 out of the west now, and that usually isn’t a good thing especially for things like tarpon and such. Anyways I had Doug and Carolyn today (as well as tomorrow) and we made the best of it. We found some live pilchards nearby on the way out so we caught maybe 4 dozen of them. I decided to run back into some of the everglades creeks to try for snook since we had the bait. There was a boat where I first wanted to go, so we tried a few other spots nearby but not much luck. We than ran into another creek, and gave it a little bit and eventually got a little snook bite going. We probably caught about 8 or so, and missed a few others, so it was decent fishing! We ran out of bait after a while and then decided to do some snapper fishing to get a little dinner. We hit one of the islands I fished last week when we had a stiff west breeze like we did today, and the snappers were chewing pretty good. We got our limit and all nice 12-14 inch fish which usually can be tough to get on shrimp. We lost one on a piece of cut bait that was either a big 3 lb snapper, or maybe another snook, never got a good look and it cut us off at the boat. Anyways all in all it was a pretty good day. Tomorrow I think we’ll try the mackerels since the wind is suppose to lay down somewhat, and maybe try for a tarpon or shark later on if things have a chance to warm up enough.
