Take a kid fishing

Friday's charter started at sunrise chumming white baits on a lush 4-5' grass flat. Loading up with scaled sardines 3-4" for both fishing and chumming and jumbo baits 5-6" for cut bait is essential. Chum chum and chum some more I did for 90 minutes! It was a real battle to say the least. I picked up Rob and his 6 year old son Luke at O'Neill's and made a short run on slick calm waters. The action was slow at best catching only a few mackerel and sharks. We then ran to the beach looking for trout with no success.{%image_id=15235%} We changed gears and ran into the Gulf searching for bait schools holding mackerel. We scored several speedsters on silver Clark spoons. I took Rob and Luke to the Skyway with little success. Back on the flats we found Mackerel, trout and sharks willing to play. {%image_id=15236%}Watching kids like Luke is a thrill to say the least. The questions and observations from a 6 year old were amazing! Captain Steven Markovich www.onthemarkcharters.com