Time: 7 AM
Tide: Low to Incoming
Water Temp: 88
Winds: SE 8 MPH
Waves: 1-2' rollers
The Alligator Harbor Trash Fish threw a shut out today in front of a paid attendance of 2.
The Tide Creek Landing crew were away today, putting in at Surf and Sand. It was a very hot morning, that ended with Nancy under a beach umbrella (poor man's T-top).
We first headed to the jettys on the end of Alligator Pt. after having a very successful trip there a month and a half ago. But, at low tide the rocks were out of the water.
We decided to slowly motor the coast line looking for the elusive (this year) tarpon. We were coming upon one of the booms laid in the water for the oil spill that, so far, has not shown up.
We saw some pelicans hitting the water feeding on some small rain minnows. Nancy threw her gulp shrimp behind the boom line and quickly hooked up with a nice drag pulling fish. Her optimism quickly changed to a tone of regret when she saw her leader coming in with a nasty wad of slime coating.
We abandoned this bad idea and went looking for some more tarpon while idling back towards the jettys. We saw some roll and one big boy jump twice, but they aren't schooled up like they were the past couple of years. The tide was still pretty low when we fished the rock jetties, and even though bait was present, we left there with no bites.
We could see some boats out at Turkey Pt. Shoals so we headed over there. We started a drift in about 10' of water and started getting bites quickly. Caught this beautiful double.
With the heat finally getting to us, and the trash fish bite unrelenting we headed to the hill.
