Purple,
When you come down, do you use a guide or do you go it in your own? The only reason I ask is if we didn't have a guide, we would have been SOL when it got windy. He knew where to go and what to do. It was a south wind, so there was nowhere to hide. We bounced jigs while drifting, and caught almost as many fish as we did when conditions were perfect. Between the wind and the incoming tide, we were drifting at 2.3 knots. After about 45 minutes of that, the only other boat on the entire flats was another guide.
As to turning the corner, we have been fishing with this guide over 10 years, and we have had two bad seasons due to weather and water conditions. One year we caught one schoolie and a largemouth bass and he only charged us half of the charter price. We fished hard for 7 hours. Point is, I don't think there is any corner to turn with repect to the fishery, it's just that the conditions have to be ideal. We got lucky most years I guess.
If anyone is interested, shoot me a pm and I will give you the contact info for the guide.
Steve
