It’s that time of the year, when you need to have all your chores done because the fishing is just going to keep getting better. Nothing worse than, it’s Saturday morning with great weather perfect tides and you have to stay home to finish your chores while your buddy’s are out catching fish.
The bait has started to show itself along with some good schools of snook. The mullet population is still a little small, but when you see a school of them target them. The reds have been holding with them. Redfish this month will be swimming around all the mangrove shore lines. Slowly move along the shore line with your trolling motor casting out to ambush points and deeper depressions. Speaking of trolling motors the new Minn-Kota Ultterra is the way to go when it comes to trolling motors. The new self-deployment motor is awesome. When scouting for fish, you want to stay back a good distance when fishing for them after you find them. Remember if you can see them then they can most likely see you. Try and stay a good cast away to target them. Or go back to a shore line that has been holding fish that you found earlier when scouting and anchor up current and drift the bait to them along the mangroves. These guys like to roam back and forth along the shore line looking for food. Target all the mangroves that protruded out farther than the rest, this makes for a good ambush point for them.
Snook fishing will be picking up also this month. With the water temperatures slowly climbing the snook will be more active. You can target them with a top water lure or live bait. Areas to look for these guys to be hanging around will be spots that have moving water and good ambush points. Like the islands around the mouth of the river or oyster bars with moving water. Find an oyster bar that is covered with water and throw your top water lure around it and you should produce a nice snook. Once that water temperature reaches around that 71-72 degree mark the snook will be chasing just about anything that swims.
When you’re out and about look for the birds hitting the water around the north end of Anclote Island and the mackerel won’t be far off. These guys like anything flashy, a silver spoon works great or you can chum them up and keep them around the boat. Throw some of your white bait at them. Just remember that you want to use a long shank hook this will help to keep them from cutting you off when they hit the line. After you are done catching the Mackerel head to the back side of the island and drift the flats for the Trout they will be sitting on the edges of the sand holes waiting for something to swim by. You can use artificial’s like the DOA shrimp bounced off the bottom or a jerk bait on a 1/4oz jig head both work well. Just start you drift with the wind and hit all the sand holes you see no matter how small they are. Some of the best fish have been caught in the small sand patches.
Snook fishing will be picking up also this month. With the water temperatures slowly climbing the snook will be more active. You can target them with a top water lure or live bait. Areas to look for these guys to be hanging around will be spots that have moving water and good ambush points. Like the islands around the mouth of the river or oyster bars with moving water. Find an oyster bar that is covered with water and throw your top water lure around it and you should produce a nice snook. Once that water temperature reaches around that 71-72 degree mark the snook will be chasing just about anything that swims.
When you’re out and about look for the birds hitting the water around the north end of Anclote Island and the mackerel won’t be far off. These guys like anything flashy, a silver spoon works great or you can chum them up and keep them around the boat. Throw some of your white bait at them. Just remember that you want to use a long shank hook this will help to keep them from cutting you off when they hit the line. After you are done catching the Mackerel head to the back side of the island and drift the flats for the Trout they will be sitting on the edges of the sand holes waiting for something to swim by. You can use artificial’s like the DOA shrimp bounced off the bottom or a jerk bait on a 1/4oz jig head both work well. Just start you drift with the wind and hit all the sand holes you see no matter how small they are. Some of the best fish have been caught in the small sand patches.
