The first spot I hit was one that has held juvenile tarpon in the past, but a little later in the season. I guess things don't change because there weren't any to be found today either.
Next stop was to a freshwater spillover, hoping to find a snook taking advantage of last night's rainfall. Saw one bust water right at the dam, so that was enough to keep me throwing in there til my arm got tired, but never got so much as a hit. It was beginning to look as I expected: this area was not a prime summer spot.
Paddled my way out to the bay, loads of mullet in the creek on the way out there, but not much else. So, as I was now running out of time, I headed to my sure-fire spot on this cruise. Pulled up to a tiny creek mouth and on the second cast a nice snook slammed my new Skitterwalk. Had him hooked good and fought him for about 5 minutes, but I was in very close proximity to loads of mangroves which had plenty of water under them. Sure enough, I got the fish to the front of the boat and he slowly pulled me into the mangroves. I opened my bail, and backed the yak out of the trees and waited. A couple minutes later he came out, and as I tightened the line again, back in he went. Waited about 10 minutes this time, and when I pulled the line again it came out of the trees minus leader and lure. And that was the extent of my fishing for today. Paddled back home with my tail between my legs and a new skitterwalk stuck in some poor snook.
My best trip there was the second week in December of 2003, first rain in 4 weeks and over 5" fell in one day. I caught 14 Snook in one night 12 of which were slot, and two of those were over slot, biggest being 34". I lost as many fish as I hooked that night, probably some were repeat hook ups.