Late Summer Sight Fishing in Thick Grass
- By: Pat Ogletree
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- Found In: Fishing Tips, Artifical Lure Tips, Soft Plastic Lures

Recently, I picked an area that should have been a good place according to the current trends. The challenge was that I hadn’t been there in a while and thick grass made presenting my lures to fish more difficult.
The fish were there, though, and sight casting ended up being a big key to success. In this video, I’ll show you what to looking for and how to present your lures to help you improve your sight fishing success.
Late Summer Sight Fishing
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Trip Details
- Location: Titusville, Fl
- Time of Day: 6:00 AM – 11:00 AM
- Air Temperature: 70’s to high 80’s
- Wind: NE at 10 – 13 MPH
- Cloud Cover: Partly Cloudy
- Tide: Non-tidal zone
- Water Depth: 1 – 2 feet
- Water Clarity: Clear
- Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Equipment
Rod and Reel Setups
- Rod 1: Slot Machine
- Reel 1: Daiwa Fuego LT 3000
- Rod 2: Slot Machine
- Reel 2: Otis 2500
- Mainline: 6 Pound Daiwa J Braid
- Leader: 15-lb Ande Mono
Lures
Vessel
Key to Success
- This time of year, bait can be plentiful. When you get on the water don’t just look for bait, look to see what it’s doing. Are they being chased or are they milling around? Nervous bait indicates predators are nearby.
- Keep moving until you see signs of what you’re after. Feeding activity, big wakes/pushes, and tails are all indicators of predator fish.
- When you’re sight casting, cast beyond the fish to avoid spooking it with the lure splash.
- Also make sure your cast is ahead of the direction the fish is traveling. Work your lure back so the fish finds it on the intercept.
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Thanks Pat for the informative video. I always seem to get something from each of them.
Well pat I guess you and Tony fish reletively in close proximity to each other him in oak Hill area you in Titusville have never fished in either of these areas of central Florida before and really don’t plan to the water here in jax fl might be murky and mostly to much so to sight fish but I do pretty good here anyways but I also seen just now one of Tony’s posts regarding making sure to match up the right hook size with the lure being used and he was kind of in the same scenario as you in that thick grass was a problem so what he did was used a small bullet weight with a worm hook instead of the standard screw lock that comes on the hoss helix hooks and this setup seemed to slide through the grass better because the bullet weight covered the knot leaving less to catch on the grass not to get off the subject but lately like the last week and a half we here in northeast fl have been getting alot of rain lately and I haven’t gone fishing since before the rain started and was wondering if the mullet are still in or do you think the rain might of cut there fall run early and now they are heading out to sea? What do you think? I mean literally it has been raining pretty much just about every day for about 10 days now and the st johns river here and the icw is very high above normal at least that’s what the weather man says and is expected to be that way for at least another week although thankfully the rain is supposed to start letting up