AFW

By Jason
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Saturday, August 6, 2005

Today was a last minute effort to salvage a bad day and try to turn it into a fishing, aka "good", day.

I picked up 2 dozen shrimp which turned out to be tiny.  I left land about 1:30pm and went thru some stinging rain at WOT about 36mph just at the mouth of the river before the Sanibel Causeway Span A.  I stopped at my first spot which was the sand bar on the other side of the causeway (southeast of the causeway).  The tide was high so I was just able to clear the sand bar.

I basically drifted around this sand bar for a while and had a few bites then finally a catch: a catfish at 2:49pm.  Hey, I wouldn't be skunked today!  Hot dog!

I drifted this area a bit more and after a while had another catch, this Hammerhead Shark:

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2:57pm

I headed down to Fort Myers Beach for a while.  Later in the day the sky became threatening so I hightailed it back toward Sanibel.  I stopped in between Sanibel and FMB, and dropped the line once again.  Like I mentioned earlier, those shrimp were tiny and so I hooked up with this 4 inch pinfish:

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5:25pm

Then I found a pristine inflatable beach ball.  It had "Cape Charter School..." print on it.  I had to make 2 passes to pick it up; the Gulf was getting sloppy:

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5:30pm

An hour later I hooked up another Hammerhead Shark:

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6:33pm

He seemed to be trying to get to the bait (notice the bait well on the left).  This shark was a bleeder for some reason.

Then, I hooked up the smallest catfish I ever caught (or have even seen):

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6:51pm

Here is a sky shot looking northwest over Sanibel Island:

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7:00pm

At one point I almost had a lady fish as it rose to the surface and did some jumping action, but she slipped off the hook and went on her way before I could pull her in.

I was back on land by 8:30pm.

• Water temperature (Fahrenheit): 90

• Wind: minimal

• Precipitation: minimal

• Distance Traveled (mi): 35

• Hours out: approx. 7

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