Saltwater DAFFY is

the only way to describe today's return to my saltwater s/p cast-a-thon. It's been non-characteristically almost 5 months since my last salt outing, but what a day of fun-filled "finesse" fishing. Attempting to beat the mass o' scallopers tomorrow and the 4th of July celebrants this weekend, coupled with friendly winds, it was Game on!:yikes Driving to the launch, I encountered a large, black sow piggyAttachment 404428 w/her entourage of 5 piglets grazing on the shoulder of the road. Didn't make my 1st cast 'til 8 am which yielded a beautifully marked, undersize Gag Grouper. About 5 casts later, I netted a beautiful 20.5" spotted troutAttachment 404423Attachment 404424Attachment 404425 and realized that this day could prove notable. Florida changed it's trout regs. last year that is dependent on region fished. My region, West Central, tightened it's slot from 15-20"(5 w/one per angler over 20")...new regs. are 15-19"(5 w/one per BOAT over 19"). My next trout pegged 19" so I opted to try for 3 more @19". While accomplishing that goal , I also netted 2 beautiful 15" Southern Flounder.Attachment 404426 Now, this year FWC changed my region's Flounder law from (12" min.10 per angler) to 14" min. only 5 per angler). Numerous Jack Crevalle and Ladyfish tested my drag "often". Quite the "welcome back" that was accentuated after my hiatus.
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Thanks for coming along...What crappie??:Rofl:biggrin
12 lb braid/15 lb flouro/Vudu shrimp were today's armaments-

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Nice specks. I do miss the salt air in the morning and the flounder fishing

I thought that was a plastic shrimp in the mouth of one of the trout. Those Vudu’s aren’t cheap but they do work. Savage gears version is getting a lot of good press lately, as is their fiddler crab offering. Nice bag of fish for a good days fishing. Nice flounder too.

It looks like the salt missed you, nice outing!

Nice trip, I really enjoyed it.


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That’s too awesome!!
Great day for sure.
Thanks for sharing.


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Nice. Great pics, thanks for sharing.

Very nice fish, I would like a few of those flounder, good eats there.

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Great catch. Loved the pics. Your freezer made need to get bigger if you continue this great fishing season.

nice catch !