Speckled Trout Fishing with the Lady's 2024 

Thanks Ryan!! It's nice when all I have to do is show up and catch dinner!! How does someone lose a $30,000 dollar boat....LOL....I suspect someone was having nightmares!! Kinda nice to change up the routine and go do something different......Have a good time in Philly!!

Thanks Rob!! I always jump at the chance to get on someone else's boat especially when the crew is all women.....LOL.....One of my better Trout days on the Gulf!!

Thanks Nick!! When I moved here from N. C. I lived in Brandon and I fished a lot around the Island.....When I moved up here I had not been back in years until this trip!!

Thanks J!! I use t live in the interior east of Tampa and fish Anclote all the time....When I moved out here to the coast all my attention went towards learning the Refuge and about 300 square miles of the offshore fishing......More Specks than I've seen in a long time!!

@@WesLovelace Are you okay?

Thomas Murphy.....Thanks!! The Anclote Keys always seems to hold Speckled Trout even though the Islands are several miles offshore of Tarpon Springs!!

Thanks John!! The trip is even better when there are a couple of women onboard and one of them owns the boat.....LOL!!

Thanks Nathan!! I'd be reel upset if I lost my boat.....I don't know how you make the mistake of not properly securing something that expensive.....The shrimper had it docked next to his boat in the river when we got back!!

Thanks Clifford!! The Trout aren't thick but there are a few legal Specks on the East side of the Island.....We were in there on the incoming and they liked softies and hard baits......Didn't see any scallops in there.....We fished about 1/2 the Island from north to south....I saw your video on the east side near the Cotee the other day!!

Thanks!! You don't pass up a day on the water when the owner and crew are all women.....LOL.....We definitely got into some nice schools of Speckled Trout!! This was my 3rd lost and found boat and this wasn't a cheap boat to floating around!! The ignition key and the bottom machine were not on the boat.....The shrimper had docked the vessel in a slip on the Cotee River next to his!!

@@WesLovelace wow, amazing you have found 3 boats already!

@@21Swayzee You could actually add a Refugee boat from Cuba 2 years ago in the Florida Keys(Marathon) and a sunken sail boat when diving off the Gulf Coast down in Tarpon Springs!!😎

Thanks Wayn!! Speckled Trout are a tasty species.....We had them for dinner the next afternoon fried up!!

When I moved here from Va. & NC Anclote Island was my favorite area to go to from Brandon.....When I moved up here I have never gone back since then until now.....Everything inshore and offshore for the last 30 years has been up here or the East Coast from Titusville to Marathon in the Keys!!!!

I do miss the offshore action, don’t miss the fuel bill!

@@TimeOnTheWaterFishing Anymore the CC doesn't see the salt very often.....Overharvesting and species destruction have taken a huge toll on the fishing resource both inshore and offshore!!😎🎣🤿

LSJ.....Thanks!! It's been over 20 years since I was there and we caught more Specks than I've caught in the Refuge in quite a while and the ramp next to Hooters was an easy launch!!

Thanks Martin!!😎This abandoned boat is the 3rd. time in 20 years I've come across a boat with no one on it and this was about 8:30 in the morning.....The skiff was moored next to the shrimper at the Hooters in NPR on the Cotee River when we returned. Big bird was a Coast Guard flight that might have been looking for the capsized vessel off the coast here!!

@WesLovelace years back we used to find empty boats off marathon pretty often. Found a Hewes redfisher that came off the bow of a big sport fisher. Don't know how it came off without anyone noticing.

@@RandolphRelicRecovery When you've got lots of money what's losing a Hewes.....LOL!!😎

DMP.....Thanks!! Someone's got to be sick with $30,000 of boat floating south from where ever.....It was berthed up behind Hooters on the Cotee when we got back!! I think from now on I need to have more women on board.....They certainly aren't looking at me.....LOL!! Today I was in the swamp.....I thought I'd have to swim back there and with 4 cams out there I got deer.... 2 Bucks and 4 Does.....Nothing else....All the critters have gone to the high ground!!

@@WesLovelace I figured you get that bear I hear he’s been spotted out there a few times

@@dronemafiaproduction. To say the least I was disappointed with the results.....I never saw a hog track and a section of swamp to the old Bayport Road is totally underwater.....There's nothing dry anywhere the short legged critters normally walk through!!😎🦌

Thanks Ron!! Best Speck trip in a while.....Actually It's my 3rd tome finding an abandoned boat.....Once in the Keys a few years ago and now twice up here.....This was about a $30,000 boat so someone's wondering where it is.....The shrimper had the vessel docked next to them in New Port Richey on the Cotee River when we returned!!

Thanks Yuri!! Completely different area for a change.....We had a great Trout dinner.....The house is totaled as far as I'm concerned.....FEMA Adjuster is here Wednesday and I'm discussing a new stilt with a contractor....I'm tired of having to deal with this crap!!

Thanks Dug!! Well not free but this one turned out to be the most expensive one I've found here on the Gulf and Atlantic......This vessel was drifting from the north from up where I live in Bayport.....No telling how long it had been missing!!

Thanks Rande!! At last count there have been 5 over the years.....Including a sunken 40 ft' sailboat which was blind luck.....The boat we came across off the Cotee River was worth at least $30,000....My question.....How do you not properly secure your mooring lines because there was no ignition key and the combo GPS was off the boat.

DMF.....Thanks!! From my joint of view the house is totaled.....It's reel bad.....Adjuster is here Wednesday PM and a contractor to give me a quote on a new stilt with the same foot print

@@WesLovelace well if you need anything I’m here