This week had its set of challenges with the wind being the biggest. With the front hitting us over the weekend brought a strong onshore cold wind for the past few days. This made the coastal areas murky and on the colder side. Water temp bounced around this week starting out around the 72 mark to down to 69 with the front. Today its up to 71 and should increase as this week continues.
I got out a day before the front but still found the coastal area around Marco to have murky water making live bait very difficult to find. Fishing in murky water can produce some good fish but you will need either cut or live bait and I didn’t have either so I decided to run south. Fishing some middle bays and working mangrove edges with a variety of soft plastics produced a solid snook bite with over a dozen to the boat but all under slot with many in the 22-25in range. Along with snook there was a good trout bite but for me they were on the smaller side with maybe just one or two hitting 15in. That and a few small snappers in the mix gave to a successful day in my book.
This week looks like there might be another tiny front by the end of the week making some wind on Friday and dropping the air temp a little bit making for a few chilly mornings. Good tides all this early week going to a half moon step incoming by the weekend. Going to be a little tougher then but if you find some moving water it should produce a good bite.
