I Fished the Most Famous Spot on the Florida Gulf Coast.

Folks today we're fishing one of the most famous spots on the Gulf Coast to see if we could catch dinner. There's a fish. Got him that time. Got him that time. Nice fish here. Good morning folks and welcome to another video. What is up with this temperature drop man? It's a little bit chilly out here. It's been warm. Last couple of days we've had a big time temperature drop. I hope that doesn't affect the bite. Now you've seen me doing a lot of surf fishing. Catching pompano. The pompano bite has been fantastic, but today I'm just going to take one rod, some lures, and we're going to try to artificial lure fish the beach to see if we can catch anything out there. Worth taking home maybe for dinner or something like that. I'm going to start right over here real quick and then let's just see what we can get into today. I'm going to take you guys along with me. I'm going to start right here just because I've caught good fish right here in the past this time of year. We'll see if they're here yet. And folks, the place that I'm fishing out here today is Fort Pickens, which is arguably one of the most famous spots along the Florida Gulf Coast. It's a great place to spend the day hiking the forts, fishing the pier, enjoying the beautiful scenery. There's just so much to do out here and I highly recommend you checking it out if you're ever in the area. Let me show you what I'm using real quick. I've got an ES casting metal. I've caught everything on the beach with this guy right here. And I've got my Quantum Benchmark reel with a Quantum Myth rod. Good little combo, just a good little casting combo. First cast. There's definitely some birds and bait around, so maybe there's some fish. It's really deep right here. There may not be any fish here yet, but it gets really good in late April, so we'll see. I didn't catch one on the first cast, so that's a good sign. All right, let's move it on down, folks. Now, I don't know if I'll catch anything right here today just because it is a little early, but this area is one of the prettiest areas on the Gulf Coast. I highly recommend just coming and checking this place out if you're visiting Pensacola Beach. It's really deep right in this area, so anytime I'm casting like this, I do like to let it sink. All right, let's keep moving until we find something, folks. Dang, there's all kind of stuff floating up out here. That's crazy. I would love to see that about 40 miles out. Hey, there's some birds diving right up here, y'all. They're eating these little minnows that are on top. Maybe there's some fish mixed in with them. We'll see. There's a fish. Oh, dag gum. We just got hit. Okay, okay. That's interesting. Unless I ran into something, it felt like a bite. Good gracious. This current is unbelievable today. Well, so far we've gotten one bite, and we're putting an asterisk by it because we don't even know if it was a real bite or not. There's a fish. We got him. It was a real bite. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Nice fish coming in here. Yes, sir. Hit on up here, baby. Nice Spanish. First fish of the day. Nice Spanish right here on the ES casting metal. Hey, that's a keeper. We got breakfast already. All right, let's try that again. That was two bites and like three casts. Letting it sink all the way to the bottom right here. It's deep. All I did there is let it sink all the way to the bottom, and then we're just reeling it in. Straight retrieving. That's how I got that bite. Real close to shore too. There's a fish. Oh, missed him. Let's see if they're still there. Dang. That was a good bite there. All right, they're still here. There's a fish. Got him. Got him. Nice. Nice. Number two coming in here, folks. Good one. Good one. Yes, sir. Spanish number two right here, folks. All right, y'all. Let's keep it going right here. Oh, there's a bite. Come on. Hey. Hey, maybe they're getting fired up. That was a good bite. You know, the more that it warms up here, the better that it gets. As we move into late April and May, the fishing's going to get really, really good. It's still cold. It was in the upper 40s yesterday, so like, you know, it's only going to get better. There's a fish. Got him. There's a fish. Yes, sir. Oh, he came off. Dadgummit. There's a fish. Got him that time. Got him that time. Nice fish here, I believe. I think that's a five. Oh, yeah. Good one. Real good fish here. Check him out, y'all. Nice Spanish right here. Getting on a few good ones. Let's keep at it while they're biting. You know, my plan today was to ride the beach and look for birds diving and stuff, but I'm not going to do that if I'm on a decent bite here, you know. Never leave fish to find fish. Usually doesn't work out. There's a fish. Got him. Oh, he came off, didn't he? No, he didn't. He was just running in. Nice. Come here. Get up here. Get up here. It's so rough out here. I couldn't even tell. Another nice Spanish. These are all keeper fish, y'all. Good to see these guys showing up. I got these toadfish titanium flyers. Toadfish was nice enough to send me. They're pretty sweet. I'll probably lose them in a week, but it'll be fun while it lasted. So, let's keep her going. Let's keep the party going here. I actually saw them blowing up on top then, which was interesting. That's the first time that I've actually seen them blowing up on top this morning. Oh, yeah. There they are right there. I think they're blowing up again right there. Yeah, they are. Come on. Eat it. Dang. They're blowing up again right here. That was cool. They're blowing up on those little minnows that I'm seeing out here. Eat it. Come on. Dang. How did I not get bit right there? Come on. That's the best I've seen them yet, y'all. Come on. Man, they're keyed in on these small baits. A lot of times when they key in on these small baits, it's hard to get them to bite anything else, but we're catching them, so it doesn't matter. I want to change to something a little smaller, a little smaller lure, so I switched lures here to the Tsunami Glass Minnow, okay? One of my favorite lures. Let's see if they eat this any better. There we go. There we go. First cast with the Glass Minnow, y'all. First cast with the Glass Minnow. Unbelievable. These are all just quality fish, too. That is awesome. What a great little Spanish bite we walked into this morning. There we go. Got him on the Glass Minnow, baby. Yes, sir. I just caught another Spanish, a nice one, as soon as I switched over to another jig. Hey, guys. Oh, there's a fish. There's a fish. They're jumping over here, I think. There we go. There's another one. There's another one. What a fire bite we've walked into here. Oh, yeah. I will say this. The Tsunami Glass Minnow is significantly better right now than the ES Metal, and it's doing work. There we go. Oh, I missed him. Hey, gummit. Hey, gummit. There we go. Got him on the Glass Minnow, baby. Got him on the Glass Minnow. Feels like a good one. Yes, sir. Check out that one right there, y'all. These are all quality fish. I knew switching to that Glass Minnow was going to work. Let's go again. That did not take long. They're hitting this Glass Minnow better than they're hitting the other lure, but this Glass Minnow is harder to throw and harder to get it to where I need it to be because it's lighter. All right, folks, that was some pretty good action for an early April. We're going to take these guys home right now, cook them up for lunch. We're back at the house here. We are in our outdoor kitchen back here, and I got a couple of the Spanish just chilling right here, and I'll tell you what we're going to do, all right. We have not done baked whole Spanish in quite some time. It's a super easy thing to do, and it's absolutely delicious, and that is what we're going to do today. If you are a first time viewer, folks, this is the outdoor kitchen right here. We do our fish cleaning right there. We've got all kind of cooking stuff that we can cook. We do have our Blackstone right over there, which we cook on a lot. Got the Pit Boss. Got our fryer out there. I'll tell you what we're going to do for these, folks. We're just going to cut the heads off, and you can actually leave the heads on. It does not matter. I've done both, but today we're going to cut the heads off. We're going to gut these guys, and if you are traveling down to the area right now, folks, you know, there's a lot of opportunity on the beach. Lots of big jack skulls. You know, we didn't really get one. We didn't get one today, but they're there. Obviously, lots of mackerel. Is just cut a few slits in him, and this is just for the seasonings and stuff like that. So, let me show you what we're going to do to this fish right here, folks. We're going to hit it with some olive oil. We got the oven inside preheating. Some Tony's. Got to have some Tony's or something like a Tony's. A little salt and pepper. Hit these things with some butter. Hit these things with some butter and some lemon slices right here. This is going to be beautiful, and guys, y'all shoot me a thumbs up. I am doing this cooking video without my wife Melanie today, and so I'm having to do this all on my own. I think I did an all right job. Here, let's throw some more butter in there and just let it melt. Look, I'm going to go pop this in the oven right now, and I'll see you guys in about 20 minutes. Y'all check this out. I'm eating a whole Spanish mackerel by myself for lunch. Check this out. We got the whole fish, and that looks absolutely delicious. Cheers. Here's what's funny about that. That fish right there was caught two hours ago. Sometimes I'm sure we take it for granted that we get to go out there and that we live so close to some of the most beautiful water in the world and get to go and catch fish like this. Be back at our house in no time and have fresh fish like that within a couple hours of fishing. We are truly blessed, and I'm truly blessed that I have such an amazing following on this channel, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it that you guys watch everything I put up because I spend a lot more time trying to fish and trying to create content than you guys probably know because you don't go out. Not every day is a success. If you know me, I try to be as consistent as possible. Whatever happens that day, it's going up for you guys to see. Check out what's going on in our area, folks. If you enjoyed that video, shoot me a big thumbs up. Everything I'm involved with linked in my description below. Folks, once again, I'm a licensed real estate agent right here. 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