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Some times you have to change the plan 12.16.09
My guest today was one of my sponsors, Jay Parrish from Bluewater Fishing Supply.
The plan was simple. We were going to fish some shallow water rock piles with in Tampa Bay for grouper.
We made it to our destination in about 18 feet of water. Our hopes were high as the bottom machine was lit up with a nice show of fish. After spending some time dropping baits,trying different presentations we could not buy a bite. After several moves to places I had marked on the GPS the fish just would not eat. It was very clear a change in plans was in order.
After making a short run to a near by shallow water flat we set up and it only took seconds for our baits to get destroyed by snook after snook! We landed around ten of them when we both agreed to leave them chewing and search out some places we had not been in a while. Our next stop produced a couple more snook and then nothing. Time for another move.
We went to a canal and switched gears baiting up with live shrimp and pitching them under docks trying to locate a few sheepshead to take home for dinner. We caught a few but all were on the small side so they were released.
We happend upon a nice school of Jack Crevalle and then the fun began. I threw some chummers out and as the water around us exploded we pitched our baits in and held on as our drag sang! These Jacks were in the 5 to 6 pound range and I am here to tell you they put up one heck of a fight on lite tackle!
We spent some time catching and releasing the Jack Crevalle and after about 8 of them we had our fill and headed back to the ramp for some lunch.
Some times you have to change the plan.
