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fishinglady · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:52 pm Post subject: Where are the fish?

I'm asking because I've got two teenage boys visiting, and I couldn't find a keeper for them. Today, we tried South Nighthawk, deep water off of King Ranch shoreline, Packery channel and packery flats..... Saw no working birds, very few jumping mullet, and no bait fish activity. Wind was up, water was choppy, and it was a rough ride.... The boys tried wading in shallow water, we also tried drifting in deeper water.

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I was hoping you knew! Kelle wants me to take her fishing this evening and the surf looks blown out. Very Happy

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Gotta Catchem All · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 3:48 pm Post subject:

tough luck.. we didnt catch anything in nighthawk either this morning, or anywhere else for that matter. I did see a group wading and shooting a TV show though. Would like to see that episode! Good luck on the next outing!

fishinglady · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:45 pm Post subject:

I suspect part of the problem was that we didn't start fishing until 10am...and finally gave up about 2:30pm. We tried topwaters, soft plastics, gold spoon, and I even tried fishbites on a DOA shrimp under a popping cork. We tried to net some live bait, but couldn't find any.

gdavis · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 5:20 pm Post subject:

It has definitely slowed down this month. Maybe the fish are responding to the increase in boats on the water... Might be best to fish at night.

AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

For the safe bet go jig some orange tails over the grass around bird island. Youll find the fish you're looking for Wink

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ironmanstan · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:29 am Post subject:

I'll call you later today...I think my nephews have other plans . they brought plastic boats and want to fish some other places so I might not be as tied up as I thought........
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fishinglady · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 4:34 pm Post subject:

Many thanks for all the helpful suggestions and PMs. Tried with the boys again today; we were on the water by 6:30am. One of the boys did hook into a trout right away, but it got away. After that, no luck. They used plastics, gold spoon, topwaters, even towards the end the managed to net a few minnows and two finger mullet....no luck with that either. They waded and casts like champs. Finally we called it a day about 11am due to heat and wind. They did say to thank everyone who offered suggestions....and then said: "Oh well, that's why it's called fishing, not catching."

I think they'll be back sometime later this summer and we'll try again.

MakoJJ · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:54 pm Post subject:

I did ok over some grass near Pita, about 5 trout to 17.5" yesterday evening on the ICW drop off a little south the causeway. Bite was on this morning from 6:30-7:00 ish where I was...got more bites in that 30 minute period than I did all day!
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