As with most mornings this time of the year the morning started with a slight breeze out of the northeast, by 8:00 AM it was howling and the water was dirty. The strange part of it was there were Spanish Mackeral all over the mouth of the creeks in the North end of Tomoka Basin. The bad thing was they were zeroed in on something and wouldn't eat any of our offerings. Neither fly or spinning lures would get a hit.
leaving the basin we headed up river to look for tarpon and snook. We were able to get out of the wind in places but the snook were no where to be found. Tarpon however were there and we mannaged to jump one aboyt 30 pounds. We were late getting up river and the wind was starting to put the tarpon down.
The big jacks are everwhere right now and the salinity is very high all the way to the State Road 40 bridge, good for salt water fish, bad for large mouth bass. Our trip ended about 2:30 having caught a number of jacks, some large mangrove snapper, gar fish and the one tarpon.

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