Sunday, October 15, 2006

Fall's Arrival in South Florida

It has been torrid in SOFLA. To this angler, it looked like the days of summer would never scram, despite the daily shortening of daylight. This morning carries gustier, drier and cooler air from the Far North and the Gulf Stream is "humping up." These are welcome signs!

Two days ago, on a much too August-like Friday, I fished the flats around Key Biscayne and northern Stiltsville. There were a few schools of finger mullet showing up. When these schools passed through structure like pilings or over rocks, the snook came out to feed on them. Using a small DOA TerrorEyz, I released two small snook. I pulled in a school of bonefish from the crown of a flat and hooked a honker, but lost the fish as it ran into a channel and hung me on a submerged lobster trap line.

Jan

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