FALL TARPOM OCT 2007

What a change in less than a week! The weather has
changed quite a bit over the past week and winter is
just around the corner. Fall is a great time of the
year to fish and this past week was awesome. You name
a fish and we hooked or caught it last week. Of
course we caught Snook and Red fish, but we also
caught Grouper, Tarpon, and King fish. The fish are
around and they are feeding very well!

The Tarpon, Grouper, and King fish usually have a
fall run. Last week we either managed to catch or
hook all of these great fish. We even hooked all
three in one day a time or two. All of these fish have
been off the beaches and in the bay lately. Well, the
Tarpon and Grouper have been back in the bay, but I
haven't seen any King Fish there yet. Most of the
King fish have been off the beach. I have a neat story
I would like to share with you from last week. We
managed to hook and land a 30 plus inch Grouper on 10
lb test line. We hooked it before pulling the anchor
and chased one of them down before the fish took all
the line off the fishing rod. We had no clue that it
was a Grouper. We caught a bunch of smaller Grouper as
well. When one of these fish came up it looked like a
Cobia - I sure didn't think that it would be a big
Grouper.

Snook fishing was better last week than it has been
lately mainly because the fish have grown over the
past few weeks. We started catching a lot of really
nice fish with a number of fish that met the new slot
limit, which means that they were over 28 inches.
That, my friends, is a great Snook. This is always the
time of the year when we usually start catching some
great fish. Low tide or High tide. We'll take either
one! We just need it moving because it is the biggest
factor in catching great Snook. The Snook of the week
was a 30 inch fish. The next two months we should see
a lot more of these fish before they go to their
winter homes.

The Red fishing has remained good over the past few
weeks. Actually, Red fishing has been going crazy. I
am not really sure where all these fish are coming
from, but it's impressive. Many of these fish are
20-27 inches. Most of them are closer to the top of
the slot, which is at 27 inches. We have managed to
get on some Red fish bites last week that brought some
big numbers of fish to the boat. Each day was
different because we managed to catch some great fish,
but we never knew where the bite would be the best.
It's a good thing that we have so many different areas
to find these great fish. Although most of the fish
were 20-27 inches, we did have a few fish through out
the week that were those bruisers that are a 30 plus
inch fish.

A little more Shark action!!!!!!!! The words say it
all.

Captain T.J. Stewart
Cast Away Charters, Inc.
5616 41st Ave. East
Bradenton, Fl. 34208
941- 737-5985
www.castawaychartersinc.com