Post by karneei on Aug 28, 2017 0:42:57 GMT -5
I found myself with some free time and a few bucks so I decided to go get 3 dozen medium shrimp and head out to Simmons park. I thought I had a good window to avoid the rain after looking at the weather radar. I was wrong. It started pouring almost as soon as I got a line in the water around 6 p.m. There was several bait fish schools being chased around by what I guess were small snook. All I could manage was one very angry needlefish. After getting swarmed by mosquitos even in the pouring rain and being stalked by the day-waking raccoons, I decided to leave and head for the Skyway in search of a break in the clouds. I was able to find a dry place fishing the jetties in front of the NSP. Was there from. 7 to 815 p.m. and had 1 tiny Mutton, 2 smallie Mangroves, 1 keeper Mangrove and threw back another one that was just at the ten inch mark as well as a 13 inch trout. I missed a lot of hook sets too. There was multiple schools of bait being thrashed by something so much that it looked like the whole schools were jumping out of the water. Not too bad as I didn't expect much with the weather.
