Redfish in the Back Yard

10.18 and 19

Water temp 72

Hunter wanted to get into the action, so he came down from C town this past weekend.

I took him to the bend in the river where Nancy and I cleaned up earlier in the week, but as usual they the fish had evacuated the area.

He had fished some areas further south in the river so we headed down past down town to search out his locations.  We arrived to find boats all over his hole.  We barged in but the bent pole pattern didn't work too well, as we didn't get a bite and we didn't see anyone with their rods bent.  So we continued south and found a small creek that had a lot of bait.

The tide had turned and was incoming and we just floated up the creek with current.  We bagged a little red and a bunch of trout of which there may have been one keeper.

We came back up the river hoping the incoming tide would change our luck, which it did big time.

We fished across the river and as I picked up a few small pups I started seeing the bigger boys up in inches of water.

We changed out game plan and started seeing the big schools of reds in the shallow water waiting for enough water to get into the grass and stuff themselves with fiddler crabs.

I baited a carolina rig with a finger mullet and tossed it up in the skinny water.  It wasn't in the water but a few seconds when the mullet was tried to get wings over and over.  A big gulp occurred every time the red missed the flying mullet.  Finally the red connected and then I connected.  After a spirited battle this nice overslot red came to get his picture taken.

We chased the big school of reds until the tide got high and they dispersed, but it was an hour of non stop action.

Sunday arrived windy with an outgoing tide.  Hunter wanted to fish a couple of hours before heading home.

It was much tougher to set up because of the wind and tide, but we managed to get Hunter set up on a small oyster point and he pounded the reds until we got blown off the hole.

All of his fish were on the sure ketch sure kurl jig.  I can't wait until my package comes today.  I only have one left that isn't superglued together.