11/15/2010 Crystal River/Gulf Grass Flats

I'm sorry I haven't had anything to report lately, I've been working on an addition to our house and haven't been out since late in June.

Yesterday we went out of the Crystal River to fish the flats. It was a beautiful day, 10 mph winds and a light chop on the water. We fished the flats just south of marker 15, it was an out going tide and we were in about 3-5ft of water. We drifted with the light breeze and when we reached the channel we went back and started over. We had bought the last 18 shrimp the bait shop had and most of them were only about 2-3 inches long.  As it turned out the smaller the shrimp the better. We used light spinning tackle with 10 lb. mono, just a small gold wire hook and 1 large split shot about 2 ft up from the hook, no float.  We caught about 8 Speckled Sea Trout 2 of which were keepers. We had to deal with a few small pin fish but that's when we caught the trout. I guess that was the price we had to pay for the Trout. Most of the Trout were caught with in 20 ft of the boat as we drifted.

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