On December 31st 2009 I guided Josh and his two sons on some Pensacola, upper bay, trout and redfish action. I was very confident going into the charter, seeings how I had located a good number of fish just two days prior. We were a little late taking off because the fog hurt our vision and it would have been unsafe to run through such conditions. Around 8 a.m. the fog lifted and off we went to our first stop. Little did I know this would be our last stop of the day. I had two of my clients rigged with a Berkely Gulp and the other with a live shrimp for trout. I got them into position and all three of them made great cast into the deep water droppoff that was holding fish a few days before. The two boys both hooked up with mid to upper slot reds on the first cast. One was caught on a live shrimp and the other on a gulp. After that it was constant action throughout the morning. I ended up rigging them up with three soft plastics and let them cast and catch an assortment of trout, reds, and black drum. All of the fish were caught in 13ft of water off a dropoff. In fact I haven't caught a good fish in less than 8ft of water fishing the upper bays in the last 3 weeks. This cold snap we are having is only going to make it better. Next week the target fish is Pensacola Bay Striped Bass. This is a fish you can only catch around here in the winter. Stay tuned for upcomming reports.
