Getting Skinny

SHOW DESCRIPTION

In the world of shallow water angling, nothing gets better than casting to fish that are too big for the water they’re swimming in. And no matter where you live in the state there’s a flat near you with a bruiser fish that just can’t seem to wait to take a crack at an unsuspecting fiddler crab.

Join Blair Wickstrom as he fishes some of the state’s largest shallow water estuaries, central Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon. The trick here is making sure your boat resembles a canoe rather than a flats boat. And then we head down to South Florida in a larger skiff, but in water that’s not much deeper.

Before you enter the world of oyster bars, exposed grass flats or dangerously low tides tune in to this week’s Florida Sportsman TV.

SEGMENT 1

Target Species: Redfish
Sponsor: Carolina Lunker Sauce
Location: Seadrift, TX
Host/Editor: Mike Conner
Guide: Scott Sommerlatte
Lodging: The Lodge at Falcon Point Ranch www.falconpointranch.com

TACKLE BOX
Sponsor: All Star Rods
Rod: All Star 7’ medium-fast
Reel: Pflueger Medalist 12lb
Line: Stren Super Braid 10lb
Bait: Berkley Swim Minnow

BOAT SPECS
Sponsor: Mercury
Boat: 18’ Gordan Boatworks Waterman
Engine: Mercury 60hp two stroke

SEGMENT 2

Target Species: Trout, Redfish
Sponsor: MirrOlure
Location: Mosquito Lagoon, FL
Host/Editor: Blair Wickstrom
Guide: Capt. Brian Clancy www.mosquitolagoonfishcamp.com
Lodging: The Mosquito Lagoon Fish Camp www.mosquitolagoonfishcamp.com

TACKLE BOX
Sponsor: Pflueger
Rod: All Star 6.5’ fast
Reel: Pflueger Medalist 4lb
Line: Berkley Trilene 4lb
Bait: Old Bayside Shadlyn

BOAT SPECS
Sponsor: Mercury
Boat: 18’ Hell’s Bay
Engine: Mercury 15hp

SEGMENT 3

Sponsor: Old Bayside
Con Minute: Mercury

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