Jim Barborak raised his daughters well: they not only gave him grandkids, they thoughtfully live in a warm spot to visit during the holidays when it was starting to get frigid here in Colorado. He files this update for the snowbound:
During his most recent visit to north Florida, Jim says, he "had time to get out fishing just once, in the tidal creeks of the Suwanee National Wildlife Refuge in the Big Bend region of the Florida portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Fishing with my son-in-law out of a kayak on a strong incoming tide in a tidal creek, after a cold front pushed the fish off the flats and into the warmer creeks, we had a banner day.
"I caught 11 redfish in about three hours, and one was over the slot limit of about 27.5 inches. The biggest one I caught on a jig with a saltwater Gulp Minnow, a rig not much different from what I use for walleye in Colorado. But most others were caught on live shrimp underneath a popping cork, a common rig for sea trout and redfish in Florida."
Fortunately for the rest of us, we finally have cold enough conditions here in Colorado for the rest of us to think about digging a hole in the ice, so we too, can contentedly fish our Gulp products.
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