Fishing Report 5/29/11 - Pellicer Sheepshead (Part Two)

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Pellicer Fishing Report
Sun.  May 29, 2011
Moon - 3 days to new moon
M.F.=  8:55 am
Temp.:  72 L-82 H. (felt hotter to me)
wind: E @ 0-7AM-10-9AM  mph, (light winds early) steady at 10 mph after 9am
pressure: 30.08

Humidity: 73 avg.(60-91)  

Rain: 0

Sunny

I made the mistake of thinking I would go back after some more of that sheepshead action at pellicer this morning. The boat traffic was unbelievable!!! The Palm Coast Navy was out in full force. It was one boat after another, after another, after another.......I've never seen the boat traffic so bad. I decided to leave around 2:30 before they all started back in...best decision I made all day.

Well, I did manage to catch about 8 of those little bait stealer's but it was a struggle and they were smaller than the fish I caught on Friday. I have a little trick I'm gona put on em' next trip....we'll see how that works!

The tide was still comin' up when I got there so I had a little trouble catchin' some crabs but I wrangled up enough to get started. After the tide started out I had to go catch some more and I had one bucket of fine bait. Too bad the fishin' was so slow.

That's fiddler crabs all around the boat!

There has been a bunch of dolphins feeding on mullet here and one of them bastards snuck up behind me and damn near jumped in the boat with me. A little spooky when something moves that much water so close to your plastic boat! I saw another one actually chase a 12" mullet into the air and grab it right out of the air about 30yds in front of my yak as I was paddling back to the hill.

That was pretty much the story....a little slow but I put enough fish in the boat to make a couple messes.

Larry S. 

Fishing Report, Pellicer Flats, 5/13/11

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Pellicer Flats, Fishing Report
Friday,  May 13, 2011

Moon - 3 days past first Quarter M.F.=   7:00   AM
Temp.: 69 deg. (comfortable)
wind: SSW @ 8-12  mph, gust to  - mph  (wind speed greater than reported)
pressure: 29.92

humidity: avg. 60% (43-88)%   

rain: 0

sunny

Tide: (extra high) I believe it changed about 8:00am to start out.

Well, I finally found some fish.

I was going to go to Pellicer flats Thursday afternoon but I got fouled to the point that it was not worth the effort for an hour of fishing. I decided to call it off and go this morning before work. The only negative was the tide was going to full a little late in the morning...about 8:00 AM. That meant I would be primarily fishing the last of the out going which has not proven to be very productive in the past there, as I remember. It won't be right again until about the 25th for early AM fishing so I decided to give it a try rather than wait 2 weeks.

I think I could have caught a limit of trout had the tide been right. As it was I did not put a fish on the boat but I had (1) trout to the boat that was over 20" that tore off right at the boat before I could get my hand on him. He had actually missed it on the first strike and I stopped the plug then sloshed it again and he nailed it! I had another keeper on in the cut on the way in. I hooked him up on the edge of a flooded oyster flat, drop off.  There was a lot of active bait in the area. I was expecting a fish there but could not convert the opportunity.

I had 2 or 3 other good trout strikes including one that did a complete somersault over the plug and missed it.

I fished a 5m18 mirror lure which is a floater and Saltwater Assassin curly tail jig in chartreuse. I expected more action on the jig but only had one bump. All the action was on the floater. This is my favorite top water plug and I have caught a pile of fish on this thing.


Once the tide stopped the little bite that was going on was over and I probably only had 45 minutes of fishing where I stood a chance at a strike. By 9:00 I had to head for the hill so I could get to  business meeting by 10:00.

The wind was blowing more than I expected and that was a pain in the neck. It was difficult to hold a position and I had to do a lot of paddling.

I pretty much had the whole flat to myself and only saw one other kayak come in from Pellicer creek.

There were 2 others fishing the flats by the launch north of Marineland but I have not done to much around there.

There seemed to be plenty of bait. Mostly, finger mullet but I did flush a school of 6" menhaden  on the way out. I did not see any tailing fish on the flat so I don't know what there may be for redfish there but I'm about to lay with it and find out! I did spot (2) big sheepshead pop their tails up along the rocks at Marineland.

I think I'm gona go back on the incoming tide with it in about 1-2 hours, about an hour before dark and see what I can do so I don't have to wait 2 weeks for it to get right again.

Larry S.