October 27, 2016
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Island Moon
Backwater Adventures
On the Rocks
By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures
By Jay Gardner I will be glad when this political season is over and in the books. This two-ring circus that is going on right now has everything topsy-turvy. Facebook is a complete disaster, and everyone is at each other’s throats about their perspective
The flags ripped and pointed south as the first good north wind pushed through. My boat pulled out of the water and set a course for Baffin Bay. As we came along the King Ranch Shoreline I could smell the brush and that oh-so-sweet smell of
Just one of two double hookups this week! One fish eating two baits one after another! Fish are in frantic feeding mode where bait is schooled up. action here in the Upper Lagoon is great, and will even get better as water temperatures and tide levels drop. The migrations of bait fish that brought us such fabulous fishing in the last two months will give way to the next run of shrimp. Fishing the ICW first thing in the morning will be some of the best lure fishing you could ask for. I will offer a half day lure fishing trip special on any days I have open during the week. It’s so much fun and the best way to really get some knowledge a b o u t techniques in our own back yard. $200 off if you can This couple bagged a nice catch me with pair of trout along Laguna a day off, just Shore with soft plastics this give me a call week. These nice little cold and ask what fronts are turning on the days I have bite! Farah available! Get out and enjoy the less than crowded waters and the brisk cool air. Get out there and GET WET!
Another nice Keeper Trout with a WATERLOO PINK LADY! cow poop. I was in heaven. Like a dog hanging out the window, I felt the new season take over my soul, and couldn’t wait to stop the boat on the north shoreline of the bay. The water was still warm against the cold north wind, and steam lifted off of each wave. As we started the
through, but I guess I’m ready for it this year already. While we were fishing and hanging out, our buddy Mark went out deep to make a cast, and we thought he got bit by a shark while he was out there based on his speed of return to the beach. He stripped off his shirt and started dancing around as if someone had poured scalding water on him. Come to find out, he was attacked by some little organisms that were stinging him all over. Tyler says they’re hydroids, and I probably should look it up at some point.
While he was dancing around pouring water on My view from the sidelines this week himself, I giggled and headed out candidate. The best meme I’ve seen about all to cast a rod myself. I didn’t make it past my this is “folks, I’m afraid that someone might calves and I experienced the same sensation. actually win this election.” True statement. I hurriedly cast and pretty much walked on What I am thankful over, however, is that the water back in myself. It felt like I was getting red tide has abated lately out at the beaches. stung by little sea nettles all over my legs and It was really bad in the bay last week, and feet. Evidently there was a raft of those things hopefully is dying down out there too. If it will floating around out there. We decided then just hold on for the next cold front, we might get and there to move a few miles north to where out relatively unscathed. Hopefully I didn’t just Roadkill and Tyler were. The water was fine up there, but we talked to a few people and they jinx the whole thing though. had experienced the same thing earlier in the Our buddy and former Islanders Jason and day. Be aware before you go plowing out into Amy Ozolins moved up to Michigan this past the water or if you’re surfing. By the time you season, and he is sending us pictures of it feel them, you’re already soaking in them. snowing up there today. While we enjoy a nice As with sea nettles or man o’war, you need 85 degree day, he’s trying to teach himself how to denature the mechanisms and proteins that to make snowmen. I told him that he needs to quit messing around with the snow-person are being shot into you via the nematocysts. construction and get to chopping wood and Rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, meat hooking up the snow plow to his truck while his tenderizer, vinegar, or something to rinse off fingers are still working. He’s going to be in for should be kept with you if you plan on getting in the water at the beach for the next few a rough first winter. weeks. That stuff is bad juju, and you should We actually made it out to the beach this past be prepared. If not for you, be prepared for the weekend to enjoy some Sunday-funday action kids playing in the surf next to you who don’t on the sand, and try to do a little fishing. There know what’s going on. were plenty of hardheads still left in the surf, Well folks, hopefully I can break away from and a couple of bull whiting, but otherwise it this computer and get out and do something was slow. Bumpy soaked a couple of mullet for a few hours and then reeled them in relatively noteworthy in the next week at some point. unharmed. Weird. I would have figured that the Y’all please send me your fun outdoors redfish would be thick in the surf, but evidently pics so I can live vicariously through you at they aren’t yet. We only caught a couple of tarponchaser@Gmail.com and maybe I’ll see small pompano, so I guess it’s not that time you On the Rocks at some point. yet. I never would have thought I would have Send letters and photos to editor@ found myself cheering for a cold front to come
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Julie Reed just put her hands on her best to date trout this morning. We were visiting an old Indian Grave Secret Spot. This big trout was released. first drift over the rocks it didn’t take long to tell that the fish were as pumped up as we were. We caught reds along the shallow beaches, and trout hit the shrimp and popping corks most every cast out on the rocks. We made our first drift then idled back around getting ready for the crazy action again. I love that point when you are no longer worried about the last days of summer, but only enjoying the fabulous days of fall. We are getting back to the fishing techniques of shrimp, popping corks and soft plastics. The
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