Capt Wes’ Fishing Archives: Jan 06 - July 07

Rick is a charter boat captain from Alaska. Rick here is fighting his first fish of the day.

Rick lands a huge grouper!

Keny comes right back with a nice spanish.

Another pass down the navy yard produces this 3 lb flounder on a S25.

Now this is a happy fishing crew.

Melody gets into the action with her first fish of the day. A speck on a softbody jerk bait.

Rick bags the third leg of the Inshore Slam with this speck.

Kent lands a speck on topwater.

Rick posing with a poor man’s tarpon.

Kent finishes the day with a pompano on a 7m mirrolure!

Bob started the day off with a nice speck on topwater.

Here is Bob with a nice flounder.

Rob is trolling a speck rig waiting for a spanish.

Rob is rewarded with a nice fat spanish.

Capt Wes catches this gag grouper around a dock which gave the boat an inshore slam!

Rob with his first flounder.

Here is a nice stringer of fish for supper.

I had two new anglers/newly weds. Boy I have had alot of newly weds over the last few days. Jarrod and Jan were on their honeymoon and wanted to catch some fish.

It was overcast with a 15/20 mph S wind. Boy this was going to be tough to scratch out a mess of fish.

Here is Jarrod working a jerk bait over a grassbed.

Here is Jan fishing as well.

After hooking several fish only to loose them at the boat Jarrod boats a nice speck to make a big sandwich with!

The wind was tough the bite was slow and we caught several almost keeper size specks. Then Jan lands her a sandwich size speck to put in the cooler.

The Inshore Slam looked far away so Jarrod turned to a Garbage Can Slam with this lizardfish.

Then Jarrod came back with a Ladyfish leaving a catfish, searobin or oyster toad fish to complete the Garbage Can Slam.

But in the end the wind did us in.

Total stringer:

12 specks

3 ladyfish

1 bluefish

1 blue runner

1 lizardfish

God Bless
Capt Wes

I had two new anglers Terry and Roxann. We fished Perdido Bay. After the rain stopped we set out for some redfish. We fished live shrimp, jerk baits, 7m mirrolures and spinner baits.

It was real tough! We ended up with one keeper speck, 6 small specks and plenty of catfish.

God Bless
Capt Wes

Started the morning with two new anglers Gary and Ernie. They were down for a wedding to be held in the afternoon. I sure hope we do not break down.

The morning was beautiful but the fish were not cooperating very much. We started out with free lined shrimp on a 3/0 circle hook with 17lb fluorocarbon leader.

Here is Ernie with the first speck of the day.

We caught several small specks and then moved on to the grassflats.

We broke out the jerkbaits and worked the edges of the grassbeds when Gary connected on this speck.

Not long after Gary found a poor man’s tarpon!

We finished out a slow day with 12 small specks.

The day was not over for me. I picked up the boat and raced over to Perdido Bay to met up with Brad and his father-n-law Frank.

The fishing remained slow. We used a popping cork and 3/0 circle hook with a live shrimp.

Here is Brad fighting a real nice fish.

After a few seconds fighting the fish Brad boats a nice speck.

Frank had earlier caught a small redfish but would not be denied this real nice keeper redfish!

We finished the slow afternoon with 1 speck, 2 redfish and several catfish.

Until tommorrow good luck and good fishing!

God Bless
Capt Wes

Kirk wanted to take his father Richard and Bill his father-n-law to do some light tackle fishing before the BIG DAY.

We started out with a free lined shrimp on a 3/0 circle hook with a 17lb floracarbon leader.

At first everybody was use to setting the hook but once they got the hang of tightening the line and allowing the hook to do the setting the fish started coming quickly into the boat.

Richard started the show with this scrappy speck.

Then Bill and Kirk doubled up.

Bill had the big speck of the day with this nice 3.5lb fish!

Once the pinfish became more numerous we switched to softbody jerk baits. This redfish caught by Kirk was just shy of 18″es and was fooled by a chartruce jerk bait tossed in 12″es of water.

It was a great day on the water as we caught more than 20 specks. Below we have 10 nice specks for the frying pan!

God Bless
Capt Wes

Here is Tristesse, Mora and Claudia after a couple of hours fishing while we talked with the Associated Press!

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Capt Wes

A beautiful morning with John and Tom casting 7m mirrolures for some topwater action.

Dan was forced to the back of the boat but would prove that the fishing was just as good in the back as in the front.

Although Dan caught some specks the only proof of a speck today was this nice speck caught by John.

We tried trolling for spanish, redfish and grouper with no luck. We did spot this old ship tied up at the dock. I wonder what they are going to do with this old rusty bucket?

Our stringer was

10 specks

1 bluefish

and some really good stories!

God Bless
Capt Wes

Leon and his new bride Aliene wanted to share some quite time fishing for some real noise topwater specks.

As you will see in some of the pictures it was a little chilly as the sun came up.

We used a live shrimp free lined on a 3/0 circle hook with a 17lb floracarbon leader.

Here are the two newley weds waiting for that first “FIGHT” of their new marriage!

No winner here only loser was the two specks.

Aliene with her speck she caught all by herself!

A nice wedding fish fry for tonight

Until tommorrow,

God Bless
Capt Wes