Two Skunks Fishing Report
Thank you for reading this week’s Two Skunks Fishing Report. Got out three days this week, two solo trips by kayak, once with Scott Radloff. In general fishing was more productive last week. Can we call it a downwards trend?? With the temperature trending downwards? Seems odd.
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Monday
I went to the Indian River Lagoon by kayak. I had good shots at three redfish. All responded to the fly- negatively. The weather was great, water high but what passes for clean these days. Fish just didn’t want to play with the toy I offered, the wooly redfish worm. One skunk.
Tuesday
Scott and I visited a different part of the Indian River Lagoon, paddling my canoe. Fishing wasn’t on fire, but Scott got a snooklet, and a fat 18 inch trout, jumped three tarpon, and missed a couple bites. His preferred bait most of the day was a rootbeer colored shad with the chartreuse tail. I, on the other hand, couldn’t get a bite on anything, and even bummed one of his rootbeer shads from him. Didn’t matter. Total skunking, second day in a row. Two skunks!
Wednesday,
I tried yet another IRL spot that I haven’t seen in at least seven or eight months, by kayak. It took over an hour of casting, but I got a redfish while blind-casting with Scott’s shad, one of the smaller reds I’ve ever caught. But I wasn’t skunked! BOOM to you, skunk!
Tiny redfish, skunk-buster!
A few minutes later I got a real bite. Turned out to be the best snook I’ve hooked since getting home, a lovely fish of five or six pounds, made my day. Still casting the rootbeer shad.
Nice snook, day-maker.
Hours went by, finally got another snooklet. Same lure.
Threw to one redfish, spooked the crap out of it. Should have tried the fly rod. 🙁
Thursday, visited my dentist, went and got my COVID vaccine booster, and participated in a few other similar fun tasks.
Had to wait around for the appliance repairman on Friday. That’s some kind of fun, too. I cleaned and organized my fly tying bench and got ready to tie up some delicious offerings for fish.
That’s what I got. Thank you again for reading the Two Skunks Fishing Report. Life is great and I love all my readers!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go fishing! Go hiking! Take a walk! Do SOMETHING!
John Kumiski, author of Fishing Florida by Paddle- An Angler’s Guide
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