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Went to my spot after having a break in all this chitty weather, as expected the pumps were on so the water was running hard and muddy as hell. The tarpon were in there and one had to be pushing 80lbs but they weren't taking anything even live bait. It was surprising cuz a storm was rolling in and usually fires them up... Finally I switched to some lures, a crankbait nabbed a few small peas and one donk. Someone wake me when this weather is over with.

nice work. we def have to get together one of these days when I'm down in miami

I need it to stop being so windy!

This weather is amazing for the bite actually!

You should be hitting every flood gate or in my case down in Homestead each and ever little culvert. The irrigation canal runoffs are on fire if you pick the right one!

-Swordfish

swordfish wrote:This weather is amazing for the bite actually!

You should be hitting every flood gate or in my case down in Homestead each and ever little culvert. The irrigation canal runoffs are on fire if you pick the right one!

-Swordfish

Yes but close to the bay or inland I'm talking about out west so the conditions aren't perfect but yes near the bay where they dump out it's perfect now ... This far inland it's hard to get the bite when the water is dirty lots of mud and farm runoff with the high flooding the last few days I get much better action in clean agua, but yea I only hit one gate and one irrigation runoff all I had time for but the area is fire.

baseball4life702 wrote:

swordfish wrote:This weather is amazing for the bite actually!

You should be hitting every flood gate or in my case down in Homestead each and ever little culvert. The irrigation canal runoffs are on fire if you pick the right one!

-Swordfish

Yes but close to the bay or inland I'm talking about out west so the conditions aren't perfect but yes near the bay where they dump out it's perfect now ... This far inland it's hard to get the bite when the water is dirty lots of mud and farm runoff with the high flooding the last few days I get much better action in clean agua, but yea I only hit one gate and one irrigation runoff all I had time for but the area is fire.

sounds like you need to start fishing where the water is salty

Moose wrote:

baseball4life702 wrote:

swordfish wrote:This weather is amazing for the bite actually!

You should be hitting every flood gate or in my case down in Homestead each and ever little culvert. The irrigation canal runoffs are on fire if you pick the right one!

-Swordfish

Yes but close to the bay or inland I'm talking about out west so the conditions aren't perfect but yes near the bay where they dump out it's perfect now ... This far inland it's hard to get the bite when the water is dirty lots of mud and farm runoff with the high flooding the last few days I get much better action in clean agua, but yea I only hit one gate and one irrigation runoff all I had time for but the area is fire.

sounds like you need to start fishing where the water is salty

Yep I live west so when I'm in a time crunch less than 3-4 hours I stay in a 30 min drive and away from traffic which means ... But let me tell you there is plenty of salty old poons and a snook or 2 out where I'm fishing.

baseball4life702 wrote:But let me tell you there is plenty of salty old poons and a snook or 2 out where I'm fishing.

Have you caught any of them yet?

Rare wrote:

baseball4life702 wrote:But let me tell you there is plenty of salty old poons and a snook or 2 out where I'm fishing.

Have you caught any of them yet?

Not in this spot the other day was the first time I was able to confirm they are there and big. However there is an area about 30 blocks north of the lock where I have caught a smaller one. The snook I haven't seen with my own eyes but I wouldnt bet against it and have felt what I would consider thumps.