The past few days have been very foggy around the Pensacola area. It's been so bad, that we had to cut our trip short on Saturday. Every morning the past three days has opened with a dense fog advisory from the National Weather Service, and they have been right on the money each time.

On Saturday I took the wife out for a fun day of fishing, and we went searching along the beach for cobia. We saw two, but they went down and I didn't get a chance to throw on them. We only fished for a little while and then the fog began to roll in, so we headed back to the pass where we hoped it would let up. We brought live shrimp to fish for sheepshead, and had kept them in the live well until we were done cobia hunting. When we arrived in the pass, we joined up with the other sheepshead anglers, and maneuvered into position over the sheepshead hole. We both dropped our live shrimps into about 60 foot of water, and let them touch bottom, reeled a few times, then DOUBLE HOOK UP!

We continued to reel a few more in, but then decided to make our way slowly back to the boat ramp, since the fog was making us uneasy. FWC was out stopping boats making sure everyone was minding the rules and regulations, and they stopped me to check my box of fish and we chatted for a few minutes about how bad the fog was getting.  Not too long after we left the pass, we saw another boater that was having trouble navigating in the thick soupy fog, so we stopped and asked if they had GPS on board. They did not, so we let them follow us back to their boat ramp, which was barely visible even close up. Fog can be very dangerous and if your boat doesn't have radar, you at least need GPS. I run a Lowrance Combo unit on my rig and I also have a hand held GPS in case of power failure. 

We made it back safely, and we were actually ready to call it a day anyway, because we were pooped!  We kept our fingers crossed that all the boaters made it back safely, and headed home. Our tally for the day was zero cobia and four sheepshead, which were delicious by the way!

Tight Lines.

Capt. John

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