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Florida fishing at its best! Many of the guests that stay at our vacation home enjoy fishing. This picture of 3 generations shows the Speckled Trout that the youngest, Eric, has just caught in the grass flats close to the house. This is a common experience with our guests. Many of our guests eat fresh fish every day during their stay. The dock behind the house has a flood light that comes on under the dock at night. You can see the 2 to 3 FOOT LONG Tarpon and Snook lurking under the dock at night. Catching them is the challange. This snipet from a nautical chart shows the channels that extend out from this community and the fishing areas beside the channels. There are "oyster reefs" beside the channels and the red fish and speckled trout like to hang out around these reefs looking for dinner. These areas are all "grass flats" that are about 3 to 5 ft deep with long grass on the bottom. Excellent fishing... http://www.loveslures.com/ This shows a very popular "Love Lure" and float. The Love Lure that seems to work the best is the white with a red head. CLICK HERE for more information on fishing lures by Love Lures. The "Equalizer" float is a "popping cork" that has plastic beads on it that go click click when you are retreiving the lure. This imitates the sound of a live shrimp, which is a dinner bell to the speckled trout, redfish, and snook. These corks come in several colors and any of them work well. On the right is what the properly "rigged" line looks like with these lures and float. The bottom lure should be about 1 foot from the sea grass on the bottom. This means a total depth of 3 to 4 feet is about right. When working this rig, you cast it out the repeat the following cycle: point the fishing rod directly at the float and reel in just the slack line Pull the float toward you by raising the tip of the fishing rod and pointing it straight up go to step 1 Some very good fishermen that I know do not use the float. They "keep the lure moving" all the time, with just a slight pause now and then to allow it to sink just a little. They are careful not to let the lure get caught in the sea grass. This is a picture of one of many variations of the DOA shrimp lures. The white shrimp with the red head, shown here is the lure that I have had the best luck using. The DOA Fishing Lure company makes LOTS of different lures, but the shrimp seem to have the best luck of all for me. CLICK HERE for more information on DOA Fishing Lures.

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