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August Inshore Forecast
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You’ve heard me say it many, many times about fishing the hot months. Unless you were going offshore or fishing bait pods along the beach or trying to catch a shark or tarpon, you need to be out early or in the evening when the sun starts to set, these are times that fish are most active in the hot months. So if you plan on catching fish in shore, you need to be out at those times. If the tide is outgoing, and it is a good redfish tide, then I will head to the backcountry and try to catch backing red fish. However, if it is early morning and it is low light condition and we have an incoming tide, I will target trout and other species. I do catch redfish while targeting trout & other species.
In a quick summary since you don’t have a lot of time before the sun gets up and hot fast, I try to target a species that is conducive for that tide at that time so I could be most productive. It is very difficult to go against Mother Nature successfully! If I am targeting Redfish in the backcountry, or wherever, choice Baits will include shrimp, mullet, crab, pogies, ladyfish and mudminnows. I like to soak these bait in fishy areas of outgoing rips around oysters, adjacent to shallow water flats. Exactly the same as you would do in the winter months, however, do not get frustrated as you will find many times in the warmer months redfish have a vast and wide variety of food sources and your bait gets less attention. Often the hot months do not support large schools of redfish and you’ll come across singles and doubles, so lures / bait placement is important. If early morning, angling is not your cup of tea and you like to get out a little later there are always Jack’s, ladyfish, sharks and other species to bend the rod and give an angler a great fun time. Typical diving lip, plugs, spoons, jigs and your standard traditional bait fishing methods all work on these fish, as they take artificial and live very well. Most of the time following the birds in the river and the intercoastal waterway will often show you where they are when the birds are diving on the bait that the fish below them are pushing to the surface. Everybody is feeding and it is a great time to toss your presentation in the action. Often times it’s an instant hook up!! Last August I was fishing with Jeff Woods and we were fishing later in the afternoon and we decided to play with some of the “fun fish” Jeff wound up hooking up a over 50 inch Jack!!! it took him 40 minutes to reel this fish in, and was very exciting for all!!! These are the type of experiences you can have in the hot months. What an exciting angling experience!
Another species that many people like to target because of their size and acrobatic angling abilities is the tarpon. They are truly a hot water fish and you can find them lurking around the Bait pods and various places in the river often times a 20 lb spinning rod with 30/ 40 inch
Fluorocarbon leader tied into a 6 inch bite tippet and a type of loop knot to your hook will be sufficient. I like to stay far as I can from the Bait pod, so you do not have any Hull slap or Boat noise so you don’t alarm the fish. When they do not know you’re there and you make your presentation it often results in a hook up. A live mullet or pogy is a great Bait to throw. Some anglers will anchor and start a chum slick and drift baits in the slick dead and alive. You will have a fair amount of sharks this way however it can be action packed and draws a lot of fish attention with multiple species. Until next month, tight lines.To respond to this post, login or register here.
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