Sundays Fishing Excursion

Sunday's fishing excursion started with our intention of fishing N. Shiloh Marsh road and exiting near the deep water canal near the "gumball" as my wife calls it.

Unfortunately, Shiloh Marsh Rd. is still closed until Feb. 15th. so after driving up to the barrier we decided to backtrack and see if we could fish the deep water canal at the southern most part of the road.

The weather was beautiful but chilly. The air temperature remained in the high 50s for most of the afternoon.

We fished several locations in the area but neither Karen or I could buy a bite. I didn't feel too bad because everyone I talked to was in the same boat.

Today the fish just weren't biting well.

I was using a variety of artificial lures from top water Chug Bugs, Bagley gold hammered spoons, Johnson Sprite spoons and DOA CAL jerkbaits. My wife was tossing her favorite dead shrimp and bobber combo also without any luck.

After an hour or so fishing various locations around South Shiloh Marsh Rd. we decided to move on to Peacocks Pocket to fish the marsh side of the road.

Water levels on the Indian River are extremely low and casting from shore to deep water, fish holding areas is challenging to say the least.

As we were driving to the Pocket Road, we saw a large bobcat cross the road directly in front of my truck. This one looked to be about three feet long and had to be the largest one I have ever seen in the wild.

We fished several areas on both sides of the Pocket road and didn't get a bite until just at dusk.

Karen had a nice bite on her shrimp that she thought was a sea trout and I caught a sea trout about 17" long on the gold hammered spoon.

The temperature was cold and getting colder and the wind died down to nothing as we finally decided to leave the preserve.

Although we didn't get skunked, it could have been a better day fishing. Lord knows we both tried hard enough.

Anyway, the temperature is expected to be in the high 30s tomorrow morning and much warmer for the rest of next week which should pump up the bite.

Here is a short video of our Sundays fishing excursion:



Till next time,

Tight Lines.