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Had a pre-wedding fishing trip with two of my best friends from home this past weekend. Matthew and Bucky drove down and we met over in Port St Joe to fish for a few days. Though we had late season tarpon on our minds, we came prepared for a variety of species.

Day 1: We fished over in Crooked Island Sound and ended up getting on some tailing reds during the morning since the beach front was pretty rough. With the outgoing tide, the reds were tailing hard in the thick eel grass. We managed two reds and some trout as well.

Matthew w/ redfish, pre-sun burn redfish breakfast

me w/ tailing red

In the afternoon, we put the boat on the trailer and headed over to St. Joe Bay. Its the middle of scallop season and there were boats everywhere. Still, the lush grass beds and clear water over there are pretty awesome. We finished the day with some fresh oysters on the half shell at the Indian Pass Raw Bar, then headed back to the Dixie Belle for some shut eye.

St. Joe Bay grass flatsBack Country on the roost

Day 2: We had much better weather and headed out to CIS in search for tarpon. Though its the tail end of the tarpon season, we were able to see a bunch and have some decent shots at singles and doubles migrating through. Matthew had one fish nose the fly to the boat and turn at the last moment, but that was the closest we got. In between tarpon, however, we got into some rather large spanish mackerel on the fly.

In search of silver...Bucky and Matthew, pretending to be friends

nice Spanish mack on fly

Day 3: Bucky and Matthew had to head back today, so we sat on the hook for a few hours hoping to have a few more shots at tarpon. We saw a few, but for the most part it was slower than the previous day. We took out about 11:00 and everyone headed their respective ways. Great weekend in some beautiful waters.