When You're Hot

Been catching some quality snook ( kingfish too yesterday morning) the last couple of weeks. I wanted to stay close to home this morning, been putting on a lot of miles, so I hit my "home" fishing spot. Pretty dead, no hit from 4:am, then at 6:00 I hit the beach and too much wind to cast out to hit water, fished it a few minutes and went to the jettie. As soon as I got there I knew the snook would be on, and they were. Funny how this happens, (bass tarpon and other species too) either they all run small or they run big. Jettie is probably 8- 10 ft above the water with maybea a 3 foot swell coming in, I like.............. I tied on a 3/4 oz bucktail , a few taps then nail a 27" snook, then another about the same size. Still fishing along side the jettie I pull out 2 more that went 33". Now I'm a little bored and need to do something else, maybe some bluefishing coming in. I tie on a 1 oz storm chugger and toss it towards the beach in a few feet of water, as I always say never over work a bait, well basically the waves were just pushing around this piece of wood with a couple of trebles hanging on the bottom and I get smashed. After a real fine battle, the fish is just too big to " spring up" as I did with the others. One of my homeboys takes out his weight treble and lifts her by the gills, she swam away just fine. As a rule I never weigh or measure but it's snook season so I needed to if it's slot, she went 37 inches..........

All caught med 7'6 redbone spinning rod, abu soron 4000, 15# PP.