Finally! They are biting again

It's been days since I've caught a fish. The weather has been rainy, windy and cool and the fish have just not been biting. But today it was warmer, still windy and also foggy, and I caught this nice 2 lb 3 oz, 18 inch flounder. I'm pretty sure this is the biggest one this year. I *did* keep this one to cook for Savannah per her request.

2 lb 3 oz flounder from our canal

You can see the flag flying in the wind behind me.

Still on a pretty good streak

14 ounces, 14 inches. Humm. On the 14th of February.

There's a first time for everything

I am a little bit proud to say that for the first time ever I cleaned a fish all by myself. For the record, I release almost every fish I catch. The only reason I kept and cleaned this one is because he was hooked too deep to release. Savannah had fish for supper!

Barge

All I caught today was a glimpse of this barge headed south.

Barge on the ICW headed south.

Nice

Today's catch is 1 lb, 6 ounces. 15.5 inches. Here's a very short video of releasing it.

Whiting

Surprise, surprise! This is the first whiting I've caught in our canal. Honestly, I didn't know what it was at first so I threw it back. Now I wish I had kept it. Here it is...

Whiting from a Florida canal

So....no flounder today. But not fish-less either :).

The Joy of Fishing

After many many months of life's worst places, I am finally enjoying fishing again. I'm challenging myself to catch one flounder a day (again) and I'm doing pretty good!
This morning I caught this nice 2 lb, 17 inch flounder on a Tsunami Blue Back 3" Swim Shad. I'll add a picture of it as soon as I can. Honestly, I didn't have much faith in the Blue Back since I usually only use the Black Back. BUT now I do! I caught this on my third cast.

Nice :)

Squirrel! (Up the movie)

I caught this flounder about 1 hour BEFORE low tide. Not my favorite time to fish, but the fish in our canal have been biting really good lately so I've been fishing at all sorts of times.