Today with clients Ed Ackerman and 18 year old son Andrew from Orlando, the Redfish were very cooperative. We did not start our trip until 10:00 am because it was COLD this morning here in the Sunshine State, around 41 degrees here in Titusville, Florida. So starting early would have been like fishing in an icebox, especially here in good ole warm?!, Florida and the Redfish were probably hunkered down in the grass etc., waiting till 10:am also.

Well whatever you would like to believe about Redfish habits, today we guessed right. In the first 200 yards of the first flat we fished, we boated 6 Redfish and had another 3 Reds on but the hook pulled.

Around noon I decided to move to another favorite sandy flat area and the results were the same. We landed another 7 Redfish in a short distance and were visually seeing small groups of 5 to 8 Redfish feeding in and around the bright sand patches during the mid-day high sun.

It was a beautiful day, no clouds and clear, sunny, blue sky. With this type of condition it was no problem to see the Redfish 30 to 40 feet ahead of the boat and visually cast to them.

What a thrill to visually watch the Redfish swim up to your lure and inhale it! It is almost anti-climatic to set the hook and watch a ten pound Redfish strip off 30 yards or so of your 8# test line.

We also had one of the bonus fish today, a nice 3 pound flounder also aggressively feeding during the mid day warm-up on the flats. All the fish were aggressive and acted like they were glad we were there to help bring in this new millenium.

We ended up hooking 16 or 17 Redfish on the half day trip and the nice flounder and were back at the boat ramp around 2:30pm. For me as a guide who usually is on the water before the sun is up, it seemed like Banker's hours, but it was the right thing to do in this situation.

Look out 2000! Here we come Redfish, Redfish, Redfish! Come on down and get some.

LETS GO FISHING,