Capt. Eric Thom M.
Thom is from Palm Harbor, Fl. He was wanting to catch some Snook on opening night. The storms were coming through in the evening. There was lighting and Rain until 7 p.m. it finally let up enough to run to the bait. It was still a light rain until 9 p.m. We did manage to get enough bait in that hour for the night. We took our time on getting to the inlet. There was no one on the water, I guess because of the storms. After the Rain, it was super calm and glassy. The fish were going nuts.
I knew right were the fish were from the night before. We set up on them and Thom put a bait in the water and instantly caught a nice Red. Thom hooked up again and again on Reds. He caught a few nice ones. Thom also caught some nice Snook that we released just before season was to open. Well it was getting later and midnight was close. I got two pigs ready and at 11:57 I put a pig on each of our rods and we both hooked up with in minutes, it was to good to be true. I couldn’t believe it we both were hooked up at midnight and both landed keeper Snook. That was our limit 2 fish, one each. That was a great opening night, one that I will remember. Thanks Thom it great fishing and getting to know you.