Early Dog Days of August

The Dog Days of August have come early in east central Florida with temps in the 90 degree mark daily.

This makes for very early and late fishing as I know so well from experience.

Yesterday, my wife and I took Elmo and Odie for a spin around Bio Lab road and the Vistas on Playalinda Beach road.

I tossed a few paddletail baits and a Skitterwalk around until my wrists gave out and only had one bump on the Creme paddletail bait.  

The area we spent most of our time around was in the southernmost section of the Mosquito Lagoon around Pelican Island.  

There were several big tarpon in the area and a bunch of juveniles darting around the shallows.  I spotted two tarpon jumping that were easily in the 100 pound category but nothing was interested in what I was tossing.

After an hour of fishing that area, we decided to hit a couple of Vistas on the beach road.

Both Vistas I fished proved to be a bust.  It was around 4:00 pm when we decided that the 92 degree temps were just too much for us, especially Elmo and Odie.

Both dogs had their tongues hanging out and I was afraid Elmo was going to have a heart attack.  The poor guy is 17 years old, almost blind from cataracts, and deaf as a doornail but he still loves to go with me and Karen for a "road trip" fishing.

I took a few pics of the areas we fished but unfortunately no fishy pics today.

Maybe next time,

Till then, Tight Lines.