The fishing’s still going when the wind gets blowing- Northwest at 20mph winds and LOTS of Redfish
I got a last minute call from a client for a charter so I looked at the weather and the forecast was for “North at 10 knots” with a negative tide, so I told him “Sure, meet me at 10:00am”. I loaded up the Maverick with the fly rods and spin gear and headed down to the ramp.
My clients arrived, and we took a short ride to the creek to catch a few lady fish and trout while we waited for the tide to drop out a little more. The trout bite was pretty good-if you could get through the lady fish After 30 minutes the tide was getting right so we pushed the skiff up onto a plane and ran over to the Redfish flat on the last part of the out going tide. We started to pole down the flat and right in front of us was a nice school of 50 BIG redfish. My client started to cast an 8wt as we started to close in on the school. He made the cast right in front of the lead fish, started to strip and a redfish started to track the fly, it got 10ft from the boat and spooked. First cast, , nil for 1. We started working down the flat looking for some more fish as the wind started to puff harder.Time to switch up to spinning gear so we pulled
1st Redfish
out a 7’6” G Loomis with a gold flake Exude Dart on a 1/4oz Mission Fishing jig head. We poled down the flat a couple of hundred feet and saw a good school, it looked like 100 plus fish, heading across the white sand next to us but we couldn’t get any shots in with the wind now blowing 20 plus so we decided to stake out one of the routes the redfish take with my Wang Anchor as the tide starts coming in. Within 10 minutes from staking out the redfish school came by and we stuck a nice 28 incher that came to the boat in a few minutes. And the wind blew some more. We snapped a photo or two and released that nice Redfish. And the wind blew even more. We stuck a double and got them to the boat for a quick photo and release, and by now we could not stay staked out with the wind howling so we went up into one of the creeks to chase a few more trout and then we decided to call it a day and headed back to the ramp.
Capt. Jim Lemke
(813) 917-4989
www.flyfishingtampa.com
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