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The cold fronts the last couple of weeks have dampened some spirits. Mostly mine, its hard to get excited about fishing in 30 mph winds in 40 deg. temperatures. But that's your job is what my wife keeps telling me as she's shoving me out the door. Everything has an up side though and on those nasty days you can get a good parking spot at the boat launch and you usually have the house boat cove all to your self.
Such was the case a week ago when I got a call from my friend Doug Creek. Wind NW at 25 and temps dropping to the 40s in the afternoon was the forecast. Begging him to let me stay home was in vain seems spring training was right around the corner and it would be his last chance to wet a line for quit a while. Doug is a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.
It was noon when we left the dock and the weather man was right, the wind was howling out of the NW and the temp. was falling fast. Mike DiFelice had joined us. Mike is a catcher with the Kansas City Royals. We made our way to the deep canals in the Cape Haze waterways. I had found fish there early in the week and hoped they would still be around. After an hour of casting artificial baits to no avail we opted to make the run to Bulls Bay and see if our luck would change. It did, it started to rain. Mike and Doug’s spirits weren't dampened in the least, no amount of pleading could get me off the hook or a fish on the hook.
Time to move again, this time to my “got to catch a fish never let me down if I show you I may have to kill you spot“. The fish gods finely said we had suffered enough, Doug's first cast paid off with a nice snook,
Mikes with a nice red. For the next hour I was keep busy releasing reds mixed with an occasional snook. When they wised up to us we decided to try the docks at the south end of Boca and were treated to another hour of none stop hungry sixteen to twenty inch reds. Out of bait and out of sunlight it was time to make them pay for dragging me out of my warm house. Sixty five miles per hour into a twenty five mile per hour head wind, wet and rough ,God I love my Lake & Bay and new Mercury. Yes revenge is sweet.
So next time you see a cold front ripping down the state give me a call ( don’t talk to my wife ) and I will give you a list of guides to call.
Remember catch all you can but keep only what you need.
Read Past Articles By Captain Steve
"IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT THE FISH"
"BOAT LAUNCH BLUES"
"A GRANDFATHER GETS HOOKED"
"TARPON, A TRAGETY IN TEXAS"
"TARPON UPDATE"
"Help, He's Got Me"
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