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The hard front mid-week kept the boat in port for a couple of days, but the end of the week gave up a decent catch of fish.

One lone trip this past week produced an exemplary catch of sheepshead, redfish, speckled trout and black drum.

Chalk up another week to abnormally cold conditions. Consistent low temperatures in the 40s at night and barely breaking the 60s in the day just does not help to increase the water temperatures.

The fabulous winter just goes on and on. Thankfully, the few trips I do get out on the "Dee Jay II" have been really productive.

Fishing action in the area was pretty decent for most of the past week. For once, we had a string of mild and calm days that were very fishable. Once again, the weather gurus are predicting rainy and windy weather going into the weekend, followed by another cold spell starting on Super Bowl Sunday.

Water temperatures are slowly rebounding and the fishing action is picking up as well.

There's good news and bad news to report. A couple of trips this week produced mixed results.

There's nothing like back-to-back successful fishing trips to shake off the "cabin crud" and the depressing snook kills we experienced from the cold.

The freezing temperatures of the past week are really taking a toll on the local snook population.

I took Christian, Rock and Robert Wood out on a cold and blustery Tuesday morning. I did not expect much action but, surprisingly, we did quite well, with the first really good sheepshead bite of the season.