Tuesday, 6/28/11 … redfish and snook in the morning and fly casting for mackerel in the afternoon

Beautiful morning — Beautiful Captiva morning!

Another good Captiva fishing charter day!

A spectacularly beautiful morning gave way to a quite different but still very beautiful, if admittedly quite dark and threatening, afternoon. There was an ever present and foreboding storm chasing us (please see photo below).

We caught redfish and snook in the morning, fishing the mangroves along North Captiva.

We also caught spanish mackerel near the grass flats in the bay off Redfish Pass.

On the afternoon trip we went fly fishing for spanish mackeral. Our fly fisherman was able to hook and land ladyfish and one very, very small jack on flys.

Alas, he couldn’t hook a mackerel. We decided to blame it on the wind and the distraction of the storm clouds and switched to spin casting rods.

The mackerel were biting. We landed a couple of them on a spinning rod. We also caught a couple of nice trout.

The storm eventually rolled in and we had to dodge the wind and the showers, but we had a lot of fun.

Oh I forgot. We also caught a large sting ray on the morning trip that we were going to use for goliath grouper or shark bait on the afternoon trip.

We got distracted by the fly fishing and the storms in the afternoon, so Charlie and Hank just took a good look at him (we had removed his barb) and we let him go.

I guess we had a lot going on today!