Capt Wes’ Fishing Archives: Jan 06 - July 07

Went down to see the FLW on the second day. Wow, some really nice boats!

Here is Blair Wiggens talking with some of the anglers on how big his fish are which put him into Saturday’s championship round.

This is Seth Currie the son of one of my very best friends, Glenn Currie. Seth was on Scott Guthery’s boat. Scott needed another angler on boat to allow him the possibility to return with two redfish. Scott’s team mate Rick Murphy was not able to make the trip. Capt Rick has the Chevy Fishing Report which airs on Thursday.

Eric and Sonny, two local boys who were in 12th after the first day.

Now this is a row of boats.

This is how the weigh in the fish.

Here is Seth and Scott waiting for their turn to weigh.

Scott and Seth had one fish to weigh and scored a total of 12 lbs for two days of fishing.

Well, what can I say. We were on the back side of a full moon and the fish bite was 50/50!

On April 12th my new friends Frank, Mike and Deb started out with a beautiful sun rise.

After the sun rise the fish bite never awakened. We were blanked, skunked or goose egged. We did get a nice show from the Blue Angles.

April 13th was a different day. I was with my new anglers Russ and his granddaughter Chelsea. I forgot my camera but the fish bite was much better.

Russ won the dollar bet with 10 nice spanish to Chelsea’s 5. We caught a great Blue Angel show to finish out the morning.

April 14th was another off bite for the fish. Below are Dwight and Christopher hoping for better fortunes from two days ago.

Below is Christopher with one of 4 strikes we had that morning.

As Christopher said “atleast we did not get skunked!”

I met up with Carter and Debra after dropping off Dwight and Christopher. We met with the same drought as earlier this morning. No Fish!

Today April the 15th opening day of snapper season. I could not find a parking spot for my trailer. Every boat in Pensacola must have been launched before the sun came up.

I told my good friends Stan and Les we needed to head up the river to get away from all this boat traffic. They agreed and off we went.

The wind blew hard from the SW and the bay was pretty rough! Les got into the action pretty quick and very often. The speck bite was very good for a couple of hours. Sorry, not any pictures. I was fishing some very secret spots.

Below is our supper for tonight.

We ended the day with

12 specks

A much better bite!

God Bless
Capt Wes

This is my new friend Ed. I met Ed at the Outcast spring sale. Ed wanted to learn how to fish Escambia Bay and how to use artificials.

The weather was beautiful with a light wind from the ESE. The tide was super low but starting to produce an incoming tide.

We used 7m mirrolures, which I caught a nice 24″ redfish on, chugbugs, catch 2000’s and soft body jigs.

The action came on the jig shown below.

Here is Ed catching his first fish on an artificial lure. What a stud! Ed was thinking a mount.

I got into the action with this nice 19″ speck.

Ed caught a nice 15″ speck. Another first for him.

Below a few for the dinner table.

Our finale stringer count:

12 specks

1 redfish

3 croakers

All in all we taught Ed how to track these fish as they come out of their winter homes heading for their summer homes. How to use the correct lures and where to use those lures. Our next trip is to learn how to fish Pensacola Bay with S25’s.

God Bless
Capt Wes

Another windy day on the water. Greg, Matt and Charlie just wanted any kind of pull on the line. Wind was from the WNW at 20 mph. We started fishing along Scenic Hwy using 7m mirrolures, chugbugs and catch 2000 jrs.

After about 15 casts Matt lands this nice 17″ speck.

Greg follows suit and before you know it we have 4 or 5 specks to the boat.

The wind shifted and the bite as quick as it started was over.

We fished the bay bridge real hard with no success. We then moved into Bayou Texar. Matt was trolling a rattle trap when this puppy drum decided he did not like this bait swimming freely through the water.

Stringer:

5 specks

1 redfish

God Bless
Capt Wes