We have had a great stretch of wonderful weather here at the beach. Until today it's been warm, sunny, calm and crystal clear water. We had a little front come through this AM and while the temps may drop a little. The Gulf looks to stay quite fishable and the skies sunny for at least a couple more days.
I know it's been 3 weeks or so since I wrote but we have only been able to fish about 10 days of that time.
Between Hurricanes that hit elsewhere but kicked the Gulf up and just regular old cold fronts and breezy days I have sure had to cancel a lot of fishing trips this fall.
Captain Greg Burnett has a ton of fish tales and he likes to tell 'em!
Business partners Phillip Poundstone and Jacob Watkins are always hungry for a new business venture.
The past two weeks we've had some wonderful weather here at the beach.
Warm, sunny and calm with no crowds, it's times like this that makes you remember why you live here!
Alas, all good things come to end and it started blowing pretty dang hard out of the NE yesterday morning and the forecast is for that wind to continue for most of the week. No big surf on the beach (yet) but I sure wouldn't want to be two miles offshore in a 23 knot wind.
The last two weeks had us trying to reason with not just hurricane season, but the Feds fishin' season.
Harvey missed Florida completely but still had enough residual surf to keep us from fishing the first two days of our limited 10 day Triggerfish season and two of the last four days of Red Snapper by shutting down the first half of Labor Day weekend.
Got back from almost three weeks at Indian Pass just in time to be stuck on the hill by Tropical Storm Harvey.
Oh well, lots of chores after being gone that will now get done.
My anglers and I had a big time at the pass but the Tarpons were kinda thin there this year. We saw fish every day and put a few in the air for anglers to dance with but never had the "show" with hundreds of fish feeding all around the boat or days of jumping lots of fish.
Today was my last day in Grayton/Seagrove for three weeks.
We are off to Indian Pass tomorrow for the annual Tarpon & Tripletail chase. Word from the guys over there is the fish showed real good several weeks ago and then thinned out with the weather we have had the past week. Tarpon like it hot, dry and calm and should show back up in force by the end of this week if the weather cooperates as predicted.
After a few real pretty days I am back on the hill today, Saturday, July 29th with a little blow from a summer cold (?) front.
The Gulf is just rough enough for it not to be fun and the forecast is for nice again tomorrow so it's a short break. The folks I had to cancel on Saturday morning got rained out a few weeks ago though so for them it's been a bad run of weather.
On the east side of South Walton just east of Inlet Beach, turn off Highway 98 and through the gate of Camp Helen State Park and be amazed how fast you go from freeway frenzy to total tranquility.
