Beach fishing 6-6-15

[Gerald]

I got down to Little Fl. before daylight and started throwing topwater.

The winds were very light out of the north and the water was very clear for our beaches. I could see 12" to 15" down. There was almost no wave action and a few small schools of bait. The tide was high and no current in the water.

As the sky got lighter, I still had not gotten a blowup so I switched to soft plastic. By this time, I had lots of company along the beach. There were 7 yackers and 4 boats all with in a 1/2 mile and maybe 20 people wading.

In the next hour I tried several different plastics but the only thing they seemed to want was live shrimp that a guide boat was using not far away. I finally caught a 10" speck using an opening night swimming mullet. Then 20 minutes later I put a 13" speck in the basket. But nothing after that for 30 minutes.

So....... I caught some mullets and small shad. The mullet were a little large [~6+"] and the trout were not interested in them, but I did have something bite one and left me just the head. The shad produce the first catch.....a hardhead. Then another and another.

So far I had only see a couple other people catch anything while wading.

Somewhere around 9 AM, I started seeing much larger schools of bait. Within a short time, I was literality surround by schools of shad [pogies] as fare as I could see. There was millions of them.

One more throw of the castnet and I had 25 lbs of bait..... 2" to 5" in size. I put some in the basket and let most go.

Using the 2-3 inch size I caught 2 more nice size specks but fishing was slow. I talked to 2 other groups that had been fishing other locations and they reported that the specks just were not along the beach like it had been for the last 3 days.

I drove to a different beach to see it that would make a difference, but I only managed 2 more specks in 1.5 hours.

By late morning the tide had dropped about 8" but not much current. The winds had picked up to 5-7 mph and shifted to a more SE direction.

I seldom fish on a Saturday, and was supprissed to see the number of families out enjoying the beach and swimming.

Final count was 5 specks [13" to 17"] and a fun day at the beach wading.

[reelguy1]

thanks for the great report Gerald, i don't feel so bad now about not going

[coolhand]

My buddy and I were in yaks out there. I caught 3 specks, missed a couple and he caught one nice red and a puppy drum, all on soft plastics. Those schools of pogies were ridiculous! I've never seen anything like that.

[Salty nurse]

My brother in law and I were also there in yaks on Friday Eve and Sat am. Ended with 11 trout and two reds. The water clarity and bait were unbelievable. All caught on purple body chart tail vortex.

[neus]

I was out there with a friend. 14 trout and 1 red on pogies. Didn't catch the first trout until 11 when we finally brought out the cast net and started using pogies. They didn't want anything to do with dead shrimp we were trying before that