My partner Capt. Michael Manis and I fished the Flatsmasters Grand Slam Plug Tournament in March and finished 14th respectively. The big hit of the day was the 25 lb Snook I caught using the Sebile Flatt Shadd. Mike and I caught fish all day, however in this tournament we needed to get all three species with included Snook, Redfish, and Trout.
We started the day by wading a shallow flat and were targeting our redfish and trout in the same area. After just forty minutes of fishing I caught a very nice redfish which was upper slot and I look over at Mike and he is netting a nice trout.
A short bit after that we decided to finish the day by fishing for our slot snook. We had an area during pre-fishing was loaded up with big snook, so that’s were we went.
Less than 20 minutes in to fishing I hook a snook that I could not even turn it’s head. I tried to turn the trolling motor away from the shoreline and still the fish never stopped pulling drag until it broke off.
Obviously very disapointed I sat down and retied the same 66 mm Sebile Flatt Shadd and made two more cast and ”Wham” another BIG Snook.
Once landed nearly 25 lbs and my personal best on artificial.
We fished the rest of the day and caught several other snook but not the fish we really needed.
One thing we can take from that day is snook in mid March will really chew on some Sebile Flatt Shad’s.
