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Friday November 12th, 2007 They can hear you breathing.
As I passed by one of my favorite spots I noticed there was a boat working the area. It didn't bother me, he could have the spot today. I shut down about 1/4 mile North of him and began working an area that I had never fished in my life. I've probably fished near this little bay 100+ times in the past without ever actually going into it.
I set myself up where I could drift down the shoreline of this little bay and I saw tons of larger redfish. Not one would take my offering of a Gulp Shrimp. This is not to say I didn't catch any fish. The smaller ones were much less shy and actually wanted the bait to be worked really fast and erratic. I ended up landing 6 reds from 14"-24" but failed to hook up with one of the big boys, despite their abundance. I've got a charter on Wednesday in Tarpon Springs so check back after that and I'll let you know if they'll eat cut or live pinfish. I'm betting that they will.
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I'm
on a real kick lately to just fish every square inch of water I can.
I have just decided that I'm going to check out all the areas that I
have always passed up on in the past. This morning I had a few ideas
of where I wanted to go in the Tarpon Springs area and I waited for
the last half of the incoming tide to go. When I say that I'm
fishing areas I've never fished before, we're not talking about
completely new zip codes. We're talking about places within a stones
throw of all my usual haunts.
It
didn't take five minutes to push a school of about 12 fish. The cool
thing is they were bigger fish than the ones I've been catching the
past 2 weeks. These were all upper to over slot fish. The bad news
is I swear they could hear me breathing. They were so spooky
that the shadow from the flight path of the lure was spooking them.
I had no trolling motor on, I wasn't knocking things around in the
boat, and in fact I wasn't actually breathing. I know that sounds
weird but when I find good fish I have to remind my self to breathe.
So, I guess they couldn't hear me breathing after all. Maybe they
could feel my pulse transferring through the boat to the water. 
By
the way, the bay I found these fish in was very shallow. The entire
bay averaged 1.5 feet deep on a +2.6 high tide. I never could figure
out what the big boys wanted to eat but the little guys wanted a
Gulp Shrimp on a weightless, weedless, hook, worked pretty fast with
erratic twitching. Though there were a lot of fish, most were not
bunched up tight. They were mostly milling around with the mullet.
If you find a school of milling mullet (not cruising mullet), fish
them. The reds are in every school of mullet I've seen lately.