Fishing With Capt Rick (2018)
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By: Capt Rick Reynolds
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09/19/2018 & 09/21/2018
I had Rick and his wife Barb for 2 trips this week, wednesday and friday. Capt. Jeremy had taken them 5 years ago in November and really slayed the Trout. This week was a little different. In 2013 the air temp was 30 and this week it was upper 80's . Water temp was 83 , but clear. BOTH Rich and Barb are excellent anglers and had a good time

09/21/2018
Low tide was at 12:15 and again we started at 7am. We had much more water and much more action today. Barb started off by catching a very nice black drum. We moved around a good bit and finally got on a good speckled seatrout, largest around 18 inches and the rest were pretty close to that. Caught a few whiting as well and then we hit a school of redfish and kept 2 and released a few. A much better day, thanks to a couple more hours of water. Again these were very good anglers and have fished in many places and had the patience to keep trying and it payed off.

09/19/2018
Low tide was around 10 :20 and we departed at 7am, so we only had 3 hours before dead low tide. The ladyfish and sharks were very active, but we did keep a 17 inch speckled seatrout, a redfish, and 8 whiting. The action slowed at low tide and we were back to the dock at 12. Not the day they had in November.

09/01/2018
I had Jeff, and his son in law William and Williams father Greg for a 6 hour trip this morning departing at 7am. However we used all our live bait in 4 hours so we shortened the trip.

I had Jeff 2 other times back in 2013 so it was good to see him again. The Water temp is holding at almost 85 degrees. So there are still quite a few bait stealers around. Jeff just wanted a good pull and they all got one with the 30 ladyfish we caught and released.

The ladyfish and speckled seatrout travel in the same area. We would catch either ladyfish , then a speck or vice versa. But once the ladyfish found us they overpowered the seatrout. we caught and released 3 speckled trout and kept 1 over 14 inches. We did pickup 3 whiting on a trout drop as well. We released 2 short flounder and 2 short redfish and kept 1 nice one. It was a good day on the water with non stop action, just not the target species.

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