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  1. Had them drumming at the bridge the other night. You can feel it vibrate through the concrete. Really cool. The giants are moving in!
  2. I get alot of my big fish this time of year. They are very oriented on structure. Fishing that structure a very specific way will yield great results. It ain't easy and alot of studying and trial and error. Being here 6yrs now I feel very confident on this local spot. It does amaze me and acknowledges the time and effort I put in. I watch boats down below do their thing and have no success, while I drop that net!
  3. What are the ratings on the swimbait rod if don't mind?
  4. If you like the history of that area and old Florida. Google or tube Captain Totch Brown. Great stories and info from him. Family has been in that area since the late 1800s I believe. Talks all about the life of the glades and the early history before any of the common towns and cities were even a thing.
  5. Alot of talk about what to throw, which was the ops question. Sometimes the difference is the retrieve/presentation. I would bang on 20inchers all night on peanut bunker so thick you could walk on em. Change to an eratic/violent retrieve. Hard jerks. Fast cranks, pauses. Make it stand out. Scatter the bait and leave your lure sitting like a cupcake with no cover! Taken many good fish on schoolie mayhem nights this way.
  6. The Mayans are a lot fun. Scrappy buggers.
  7. I know. That's what I told him. I believe he sent them back. Not sure what the issue was or if he got them back yet. Will update.
  8. I fish with a fella that smoked 2 seperate AR's on 20# fish with a VR in a month. My VS150 has never had an issue in 10yrs.
  9. Fishermen will spend $50 on anything. Show a couple big fish on it and people are gonna buy it. This lure maker, im sure saw a window and went for it. Not all wood plugs are fish catchers. Some suck!! If your spending $20 on a plug people will think it's crazy. More fish have been taken on sub $10 baits then all the wood plugs. Bucktails and cheap rubber plastic swimmers have accounted for way more fish by a landslide. The wood plug market is probably one of the smallest niche bait styles out there, like giant swimbaits. It's what you wanna throw and what gets your juices flowing. I was addicted to the plug game like most. Took me awhile to realize I did not really need em all the time to catch good fish. I like to fish em and they are fun, I wanna catch fish and I don't need big $$$ lures to do it.
  10. The cool weather is coming! Things up my way are already starting to shift gears. Gonna be a fun few months.
  11. 15# is fine. They break at a higher rating.
  12. You will not need any rod longer than 8ft and a 3000 -4000 size reel. 20# braid, I would carry 30 and 50# leader. Your lures will be on the smaller side 5in or less. Any DOA, smaller x raps, small 1/2oz bucktails. Topwater for low light. Freelining live shrimp. The snook will be moving back of the beach. Bridges, jetties, seawalls and backwater canals and rivers. October to March can be ferocious for snook and Jr size tarpon. I would not spend much time on the beach. You can catch but your odds will be better elsewhere. I am here year round and fish artificial almost exclusively and at night. The fish will be at your feet on the beach, no reason to cast far. No structure, and bare sand bottom on this area of the gulf. You want structure and moving water. It is essential to be successful. Also there is very little tide change as far as height. Use an app and look for the tide phase with the strongest push of water and focus on that time frame.
  13. Gotta come to at least Cape Coral for good shots at them. Naples even better.
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