Pensacola Fishing - Light Tackle Action -Redfish and Trout!
Capt. John Rivers
April 22, 2012
Pensacola - Saltwater Fishing Report
Pensacola Fishing Reports - Mega-Bite Inshore Charters.
It was a great week last week, with lots of redfish and trout caught on the flats with suspending twitch baits and top-water plugs. If you love fishing like I do, spend a day with Mega-Bite Inshore Charters—I will show you what a diverse fishery we have here on the gulf coast.
Todd is all smiles after landing this 30" Redfish, it slammed a MirrOlure Catch 2000
April is coming to a close, which is okay, because although we had some fine days this spring, May is one of my favorite months for trout and redfish on the flats. I'm mostly an artificial lure guy when it comes to fishing for trout and reds on the flats a few ways I like to catch them are top-water and suspending. Catching trout and reds on top-water plugs is a lot of fun, I like to use MirrOlure's Top Dog Jr. or Papa Dog.
Sight Fishing is fun and Todd did a great job landing this 25" keeper redfish.
These two top-water lures have put some quality trout in the boat time and time again. Once the top-water bite slows down, I'll bring out the Paul Browns or a few other MirrOlure suspending twitch baits to entice some strikes. I really like hard baits when fishing for trout especially when I'm fishing areas that have mullet jumping, because the trout and reds in this area are usually eating mullet and pinfish so I like to imitate the hatch. If I see reds cruising in the shallows, I will toss out a Gulp bait to drive them wild. But sometimes the fish are just finicky and want the real thing. As a backup plan, I will bring out the cast net and fill up the livewell with some pinfish or small finger mullet and give the fish what they want.
Mike holds up a keeper 16" speck for the ice chest!
Some guides will only use artificials and that's fine; I use them most of the time too, but a good guide will do what it takes to ensure a productive trip for his clients, and sometimes artificials will do the trick, but sometimes only live bait will do. When this is the case, I make it a point to teach the client the proper techniques to rig and use live bait if the bite is a little slow with the lures they are using that day.
Alan was all smiles after landing this big 19.5" Trout on a MirrOdine
Vincent shows off a nice 14.5" Trout, it slammed a MirrOdine on the flats!
Thanks for stopping in and reading my reports.
I hope your fishing season goes well.
Till the next adventure, here's wishing you tight lines.
Capt. John.
Mega-Bite Inshore Charters
www.megabiteinshore.com
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