Backbay Slams , can do!

Backbay: The flats were generous this week with reds in very good numbers on the bars and under the bushes. It was easy living with cutbait, shrimp and pins all good offerings. My Crews came up with some nice braces of upper slot spotails that ate frozen shrimp on brightly colored jigs under at cork in both Estero and P.I. We hooked up a few snook as well with the shrimp and served up a couple of pinfish dinners that were eaten with gusto. Gulp New Penny shrimp worked as well if you were "speed dating" (casting and moving along quickly) making presentations to the mangrove edges and meanders. A useful search pattern, especially when reconning on fat tides. We also had success with "tunnels rats", what we call pitching pins and shiners into the deep meanders and gaps along the mangrove edges. There was good action on both tidal phases. Trout action was superb all along our region with Gulps, DOA's, shrimp tipped jigs and smallish pins all taking a share. Yakkers found some gator trout off Bunche Beach and on the Charlotte Harbor shallow leeway flats. The"Silent Service" (stealthy yak fisherman) pitched topwater plugs and gurgler flies sightfishing the grassy flats on the low water phases. Gulps Shrimp and DOA's flipped into sand patches drew some explosive strikes from specks, reds and even a few liners. Wad fisherman did about the same just covered last real estate. Capt. Ron Kowalyk: 239-267-9312 [email protected]