N Florida Mike

Got out around 430. Had a friend along I hadn’t fished with for 5 years or so. ( he had took up golf, but suddenly called and wanted to fish.) Weather was warm and windy. We caught 18 in the first hour and a half . I caught most of mine on a Houdini zoom fluke, and he caught some on the watermelon red fluke. All around eel grass.( as usual) We got down to the south end and it was pretty dead . Cuaght a few and decided to head back towards home and kept catching fish all the way back. I had switched to the watermelon slice fluke and Bob ended up catching most of his fish on some kind of top water swim bait, can’t remember the name. We ended up with 30 . No real big fish, but still a great afternoon.

I still have some worms from the late 70s and 80s and I don’t do anything to them. They work fine.

Looks like a deposit to me !

Well done !

Caught several yesterday on the 10 inch grape shad culprit worm.

5 1/2. Nice fish.

Exactly right !

Use shiners .?

On the flukes, I’d use watermelon red or ( I think it’s called) Golden bream. On cloudy days, use watermelon seed. Another good color is watermelon slice. June bug is good early or late in the day. These colors are good in the water clarity you mentioned and are good for any soft plastics. Mantanzas can always be hit or miss. Early in the day is fine, but I think tides and wind are more important and the barometer and time of year. I never fish on a southwest wind. My favorite time of year is fall. I would put out 3 rods, at different distances with different baits. Try to find holes and sloughs.

Welcome to the forums ! I haven't fished in W. G. Village due to the limited access, but the pond behind caddyshack used to be full of fish. If you haven't tried flukes in those ponds, give em a try ! Fish as weightless as possible. I grew up fishing matanzas inlet. It's no secret, but I'd fish from the North side beach with finger mullet ( live and cut ) mud minnows , shrimp, and sand fleas for pompano.

Lol. The other day they were talking on the radio about Senko this and that. It sounded to me like they were promoting " Senko day " or something. I seriously thought they were talking about the bait at first and thought it was amazing how popular the bait had become to have a day named after it ?

I catch more with the true senkos .I rate them EXCELLENT. I have done well with yum dingers and stickos too. I rate them GOOD.

Very nice post and great advice. My mom passed a couple years ago. I was blessed to be able to have her in my home the last 5 years of her life. I still struggled with patience with her even though she got even sweeter the older she got. I wish I could have a hug from her and eat some of her salmon cakes again.( And fried fish !) Her and dad were the best 2 human beings I ever knew. Some day, thank God, I'll see them again in much better circumstances.