We hit the water at around 7:30 and paddled downstream, the water is super low and from speaking with a ranger on our way out we found out that the canal is blocked due to some construction project. I wonder what this will mean for the winter months when there are naturally low water levels, now compounded with this construction situation?
There was no one on the water today so we decided to really take our time and pick apart the river bit by bit to see if we could find any new honey holes. We caught a huge variety, nothing huge though, biggest bass of the day was around 2lbs, biggest snook was around 15’’, we caught mangrove snappers oddly enough, Mayan’s, bluegills and all sorts of other sunfish, and a couple of gar as well. Me and Ken run a personal tournament every time we fish, today was no exception and I would have lost had Ken not “Palm Beach released” a few snook and a couple of bass…he tried to tell me leadering a largemouth should count as a landed fish...
Both me and Ken had been up late the night before so we took an impromptu nap on the kayaks in a lazy part of the river…when I woke up I had drifted a bit and suddenly realized what an easy morsel I must look like to any hungry gators around…we saw a lot today, one big fella around 9’…they were sluggish at least. On the paddle back in Ken bumped a log and a turtle fell into his kayak and started freaking out…pretty funny to watch, Ken didn’t think it was that funny.
We headed down past the turnpike and I-95 and turned back, got back to the truck around 3:30pm (the fishing was not very productive on the paddle back) loaded up and rambled on out of there, good day.
