Good Time Charters

We have been having some spectacular sunsets recently, although we find ourselves saying that all the time here. And the dolphins have been loving these cold fronts that we have been having. We usually watch the sunset over the Gulf but were enjoying the dolphins so much that we lost track of time and watched the sunset over the bay instead. It was worth it though, the dolphins were doing all kinds of acrobatics for us and having so much fun. We still observed a gorgous sunset.

It has been unusually chilly here on the Gulf Coast but prior to our current weather we had a strong surge that pushed in all kinds of sea life onto our shore. The shorebirds sure were happy! They got to snack on sea urchins, conchs, and sea cucmbers. It is supposed to get back into the 70’s by the weekend! Here is a pic of one of our recent passengers with a large whelk that got pushed into shore. We released it back into deeper water.

Capt. Mike of Good Time Charters reports a productive week in Estero Bay with Trout, Sheepshead, and Redfish being the most prodominant.  If the trout bite continues into the new year as well as it has been this past week He expects to see lots of nice fish being brought in.  Most of the trout caught were low to mid slot with several topping 20″.  The trout caught this week weren’t on the flats but in deep troughs running out from the mangroves in good current.  Live shrimp either free lined or lightly weighted worked great.  The sheepshead are everywhere and starting to show some decent size several convicts over 7 lbs were hooked using live shrimp on small hooks.  The sheepshead are found oyster bars and mangroves as well as dock pilings, anywhere there is shellfish.  Redfish were found in these same locations often mixed in with the sheepshead and hitting the live shrimp as well.