28 Mar 2008

Chris, Kari, Cody, Claire and I left Galvez @ 0720. Todays quarry was again the Sheepshead; but the fish had other plans for us. We arrived at our first rock pile and we were greated by my first school of Spanish Mackerel of the year. Even though we were fishing mono leaders we still got two fish in the boat. Here's Kari showing her fish.


Not long after the Spanish departed Claire hooked into todays wierdest fish, the Porcupine Pufferfish.

We tried and tried to get a Sheepshead to bite. Capt Wes was next to us and managed to coax a few sheepies into his boat, it just didn't happen for us there. Cody found the answer to the failing sheepies, a big flounder. This fish was 4 lbs with the mouth of a fish twice that size! Congrats Cody, fish like that don't come around very often.

What a difference the camera angle can make!!!



We made a short run to the next "Sheepshead Hole", and didn't catch any there either! Instead Chris connected with this Redfish; I guess you can't complain about the Sheepies when you're finding fish like this.


A few small Groupers and a Pigfish found their way to our baits as well and it was time for another move. I slid us over to yet another bit of structure and finally we scored on our target species. Kari and Cody both landed nice fish to round out our morning.



Thanks again Chris, Kari, Cody, and Claire, you were great, I look forward to seeing you again next year.