Over Cast Windy and Bowed Up - Pensacola Fishing

Today’s Trip was ok, not lots of fish. The conditions were not the best. My clients knew it was not the best conditions but wanted to give it a try anyway so we hit the water at 8:30 am sharp and made our way to Pensacola Pass. The wind had not started to blow yet, but was on the verge any moment. We started at the rock jetties and there was not much going on there, lots of small fish, no sheepshead today.

 

So I made my way to the North Ledge and hit a hole that was holding some sheepies on my last trip. Today it was loaded up with under-sized red snapper, it’s only in 30-ft of water so we fished it for a bit letting the boys have fun with them. While we were having fun with the snappers the wind started to pick up and it got a little bumpy out. After we had our fill of the snaps, we made our way to the South Ledge in search of some big reds in deep water. It wasn’t long and I heard Duke say I’ve got one, and it was a good one, it gave Duke a good fight and after a short battle he had his first ever bull redfish in the boat.

 

The conditions continued to get worse so we called it a day and cut the trip short. All in all it wasn’t too bad a day, better than sitting on the couch.

All out of season and over-sized fish were released.

Till the next adventure.

John

 

Duke with a nice 15.5" Snapper - Colton with a just under-sized Snapper

 Duke with a big Pensacola Bay Redfish!