What a Week Fishing

This last week has to be by far the most bizarre week I have had.  I was fishing for Trout and Redfish this week and couldn’t even get a redfish bite.  I caught 3 keeper trout all week with the biggest one coming at the very last minute tonight.  Luckily it was big enough to get me back on the leaderboard at Bounty Fishing in third place.

This week I lost both of my Okuma spinning reels to defects, one on Thursday and one on Friday.  I dusted off some old Shimanos and put them on my St. Croix rods and respooled them.  Today I had to respool one of them again when a wind knot from Hell ruined my PowerPro line.  I also lost an eye insert on one of my rods this week.

I probably spent close to 40 hours fishing this week for multiple species… Trout, Redfish, Tarpon, Grouper, Snapper… and landed 3 trout and one Mangrove Snapper.  I have had a terrible time finding the trout and redfish this week.  I fished from 8 inches of water to 16 feet of water offshore, where one of my keepers came from.  I waded, drifted, trolled, you name it, I did it with little luck.  I’ll post a picture of my trout once the tournament close tonight.

Tight lines…