July 4th Fishing Weekend

We hit the water by 6:00am started at the mouth of Channel A and drifted the flats between Channel A and Double Branch. The top water fishing was good even though the wind was strong we had multiple Top water hits We did land a few Lady fish and a Small Jack Creval but no Red fish or Trout. We then moved to the Artificial Reef between Gandy and Howard Franklin bridges. We chummed the water and in no time we were landing Spanish Mackerel almost non-stop. One Large Spanish Mack was around 26". The fishing seemed to be good the only bad thing we noted was the Salenity was way down in the upper channel due to the large amounts of rain the last week. Which killed a good many shrimp before we got out of the channel. Tight Lines