August Hot Run

August 2nd and I guess it's supposed to be hot with a heat index of 103 when you hit the water!?  The high tide occurred at sunrise and Nancy and Capt. Billy Bob decided to try for reds at the flooded entrance of Little Chaires Creek mouths.

The idea was to wait for the sun to get up and head down the coast to Mud Cove and try our hand (again) at the tarpon.  Sooner or later the LY's should start spawning and it should be tarpon soup.
Nancy lost two reds on the ol' Cajun Thunder and gulp new penny shrimp.





We headed out to the mouth or the Ochlockonee River and headed west.  Soon we saw a lot of schooling action off Bald Pt. beach.  They were Spanish tearing it up.

Using Dana's custom tied flies I managed to land three spanish like this one.  They were ravenous and mixed in was a 6 foot shark, which was chasing Nancy's DOA shrimp.  She reeled it in really fast as the shark closed in for the kill with a cry of "I don't want to catch no shark!"





As we crossed Lighthouse point shoals I could see the Pelicans and Gulls diving at the tarpon hot spots.  That could mean only one thing, the LY spawn was on and it soon would be tarpon soup time.

We threw the kitchen sink at them, bombers, DOA shrimp, mirrorlures, redfins, but to no avail, although Nancy caught about 100 sailcats.

All of the swirls seen in the videos are big ol' tarpon!


So, we didn't sore mouth them and Hunter's supposed to be in today, he is the tarpon tamer: they are there to be tamed.  Stay tuned.