The Sail Boat Channel

The fishing, for us anyway has been poor. Still we are optimists and so we loaded the kayaks and headed to the Sailboat Channel. There have been times in the past when we have done extremely well there, catching nice red fish and black drum.

Arriving at one of our favorite spots we had just anchored, baited up, and cast out when Renita had a bite. She missed the fish but when she cast out again she set the hook and landed a nice sand trout. My turn was next and I caught a fourteen-inch speckled trout, undersized, but still a fish!

For the next three hours, we had bites as fast as we cast out catching mostly sand trout. Deciding to keep some of the nicer ones we started to place them in the live bag. By the end of the day we ran out of bait and had twelve nice sand trout and the prospects of a fresh fish dinner!

Two days later the weather was calm enough for us to return to a previous spot. It didn’t last long however as the wind and waves picked up, but not before we both missed nice bites, in fact the hardest  bites we have had all year.

Driven in by the wind, another kayak landed at the same time and the fisherman proudly showed us his limit of nice reds! Now of course we couldn’t wait for the wind to die down and that was three days ago. At least we know where there are nice fish and fish we can reach with our kayaks!