Cedar Key area fishing report- June 24, 2017

The Ranger Ghost with Captain Hoginator at the helm. Thanks to a number of tracks on our GPS we can travel relativley easily and safely to our favorite fishing areas North and South of Cedar Key.

Our first stop was to a flounder area we like. We quickly caught two flounder, a short Red and Black Drum then moved on to areas North into the backwater on the rising tide.

The flounder we caught were over hard shell bottom. A lesson learned about finding that king of bottom is pole the boat or throw a gold spook with a slow enough retrieve to "feel" the type of bottom.
The next few spots only produced short Redfish and Trout. But after running further North we found some keeper Redfish. And finally Captain Hoginator connected with a nice Redfish (the last few trips he has been wasting time, incessantly  throwing his top water lures, while I catch our limit of Redfish).

Lessons Learned:

• Carry multiple rigs (our typical rigs):
  • A circle hook under a small weighted popping cork
  • Top water
  • Gold spoon
  • A bottom rig

We are typically using spinning gear with #20 pound Power Pro-Slick braid with a #20 pound fluorocarbon leader.

Captain Hogintator also caught the smallest fish of the day, a juvenile Trout.