Hot and Healthy Trout BAFFIN BAY

Reported by CAPT. GERAD MERRITT

SUMMER TIME TEMPERAtures are in full swing down here on Ba n Bay and this means the water is also heating up. We are seeing plenty of speckled trout of all sizes!

e population is healthy, and sh are everywhere. With the water warming up, we have been shing a li le deeper and are having good success over deep rock structures, while using croaker on a free line. We change from shrimp in the spring to using the croaker as almost every customer we have wants to speci cally target trout and red sh. I am currently using thirty pound braid a ached straight to a number seven Kahle hook. To some, this may seem a li le big, but customers tend to miss less sh with the bigger hook.

e croakers will tend to try and hide in