Sunday July 18th by BJ

The Barge Canal and Channel
    We were out by 7am Sunday morning, the tide was extremely high and the canal was littered with floating debris. Schools of Threadfin fry were everywhere and the Tarpon were rolling.  The bait fish were so thick that one throw of the castnet resulted in about 20 pounds of the 2" variety threadfins, enough to fill the livewell to overflowing. We stopped for a short time to try our luck at hooking into one of the huge tarpon that make the barge canal home but only caught a couple large sail cats. It was fun anyway to watch the huge tarpon come flying out of the water and come crashing down only few yards from our boat. With the millions of bait fish I guess you don't have much of a chance at enticing a tarpon to take your "one in a million" bait.

   We headed out of the barge canal into the gulf and tried in vain to find fish that were hungry enough to bite but only found a couple small sharks for our effort.

   With the Gulf water temps in the 90's fishing becomes difficult to say the least, as the sun rises higher in the sky the the fish retreat to coolness of the deeper water. This might be a good time to try your hand at night fishing with a submerged fish attracting light in the water. Lights in the water will attract all sorts of fish.

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