After waiting out a hurricane and tropical storm, and the gobs of weeds left behind, we’re back in the game. Happy to report the fish are still cooperating.

The bite continues to be an evening twilight to early darkness pattern. Interestingly, it’s been mackeral even after dark they prefer – so we oblige! My one recent bummer trip was an early morning foray. Ironically, it was a rescheduled twilight trip due to traffic havoc on their end.

We’re using the light Shimano spinners almost exclusively now. It’s fun for all to have a good tussle with this gear – feeling every tug through the light braid. For eels and larger mackeral we switch to the Shimano level winds – and still have fun.

The downside of light gear is the occasional “oh no” moment with a fish that wants to get to the next county. We’ve been pretty successful employing electric motor hot pursuit, unless it’s too rough. The smiling blond client below – who released that big girl right after the photo, had an “oh no” a few nights ago. Snotty rough so we had to stay put. Ouch…

While it’s really unusual to have mackeral all season, we’ll stick with it. We are enjoying several spots where juvenile herring are concentrating bass, making double headers a fun challenge.

While the water temps are still above 65, the days are getting short.

Soooo….

C’mon down.

Capt Bob