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Rainy Day Fishing

Rainy Day Fishing

Capt. Dan Shannon

I waited an hour or so for the rain to let up, but it never did. I towed the pontoon out to Cedar Key anyway. Saturday, August 2nd, I had a trip scheduled for five folks, and they didn`t care if it was raining a little bit. The just had to go fishing.

I didn`t care either. There was no lightning, so the trip was on. It let up by the time I got to Cedar Key, so I slid the boat into the water, and soon after that, my guests showed up.

We motored out and anchored up just off the edge of the southwest channel almost to Seahorse Key and tossed out some fresh shrimp. It wasn`t too long before someone yelled, "I got one!"

Then another and another and on and on. We caught several plump silver trout and lost a few. I moved over onto more shallow and grassy bottom and put three or four more trout into the fish box.

When the tide had moved in a little more, I moved us between Seahorse and Deadmans Key. Our biggest speckled trout came over the side when Ken and Sue Waller`s granddauther Jennifer, from Port St. Lucie, landed a whopper seatrout at 20 inches.

Her graddad, Ken, hooked something so big he couldn`t even turn it. No let up at all. It took off and spun all the line off his reel. I couldn`t even get the anchor up fast enough to follow the fish.

We then moved a little further over to Deadmans Key were I thought we might catch a redfish or two. We weren`t anchored up 3 minutes when Richard had one on. His first redfish ever. The beautiful thing was just under keeper size so we released it quickly. Then Jennifer caught one and it too was only 17 inches so back in the water it went.

Just then Ken started tugging on a larger fish, and we finally netted a brought to the measuring stick a 19-inch redfish. Definitely one for the fishbox.

We`d been out four to five hours and it was time to go. At the dock, I cleaned and bagged with ice nine trout and one redfish. Two fat ziplock bags with fresh fillets.

The fish were biting pretty good under all that light rain. Folks, there`s great fishing around the Cedar Key area, and if you`d like to have a fishing adventure with me aboard my 24-foot pontoon boat, please give me a call at 352-486-1656 and we`ll schedule a trip. I provide everything. License, too. Take home fresh seafood. Go to my website...www.inshorefloridafishing.com and check out some good pics.

Capt. Dan

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