Can't Resist

December 26 and 27,2014

Water temp 56 degrees

Hunter has the fishing jones real bad so we headed out again to attack the reds on Friday evening and to make sure that they would be there for Willie when he arrives tomorrow.

Hunter whacked them again as many reds were seen in the outgoing low tide.

Willie and Patty arrived with big mommoo in tow and after some gift sharing and drinks, we got up and tackled the reds on Saturday morning.

It was our best redfish day since moving to Beaufort, with 8 redfish coming boat side.

They were really hammering the Gulp Jerkshad on the incoming tide.

Hunter also scored with the jig head and mud minnow curly tail.

I did hear something I thought I would never hear this morning.  As we kept catching slot redfish, Willie kept saying "throw them back".  I have never seen him turn down a fish fry, but he must have had the Christmas spirit as he saved 7 redfish lives today.

It is great to get out with family and enjoy the outdoors.  Always a good memory!

Merry Christmas and a Big Redfish To All

12.25.15

Water Temp 53 deg

Outgoing tide near the bottom of a -.9

After enjoying a joyous Christmas, turkey, mashed taters and gravy, we headed out for a quick two hour trip to enjoy the beautiful weather and to try and stick a redfish on the very low tide that was forecast.

Something was different today.  As we arrived at our redfish hole, we could see bait flipping.  That hasn't been seen in a month.  Soon we could see the reds stirring in the current and it wasn't long before Nancy and Hunter swung a double aboard.

Nancy's fish hit a mud minnow under a tourist rig and Hunter's fish ate a glow gulp shrimp in the swift water.

After that quick start Hunter got hot on them as he brought two more fish boat side with his trusty gulp rig.

Both of these were overslot beauties that put up a great fight.

We made it back to the ramp on time to load the boat crooked on the trailer due to the low tide.

Sometimes you wonder why did we move?  This outing is why.

Battling The Elements

12.23.15

Water temp 52 degrees

Sitting around the house watching the huge tide come in, trying to see the other side of the river, and misting rain, we started talking about how we have had some really good fishing days when it's this crappy out.  Fog and rain has done us well when fishing for freshwater fish, but would it work for the saltwater variety?

A little window of opportunity arrived as the tide was hauling out in the afternoon.  So, we eased out of the ramp to give it a try.

We started jumping the reds about a half hour after our arrival.  While they weren't real coopertative, one did want to put on a show as he socked my jig and battled me in the swift water.

Getting him boat side, Hunter swung him aboard.  The over slot 28" redfish was a beauty with three spots on his side.

I flipped him over to get the picture, my expression reveals that he stabbed me pretty good with his dorsal fin.

We followed the schools of reds as they worked their way against the tide, but no others would offer at our baits.

We made a quick stop at our trout hole and Hunter put a hurting on them with mud minnows, but no trout came home with us as they all were peanuts again.

You don't know, til ya go.

Fishing for Peanuts

12.19-12.20

water temp 53 degrees

Ben came down from Augusta and hooked up with Hunter and I for some Christmastime fishing.
While it was a little raw we felt the fish should bite and hit some good holes from the Broad River to Parris Island and the Beaufort River in our back yard.

We are proud to announce that we are really good at catching peanut trout.

We caught many like these:

We did have some good moments of bald eagles eating fish out of the creek we were in, lots of ducks, the marine corp shooting round after round and the sound of the Marines hard at work getting ready to defend our country.

Ben kept us amused with dentistry stories and I lost a lot of hooks and lead to the underwater trees.

Hunter just kept catching peanuts and wondering if the fish get any bigger.

We're gonna try later in the week and hopefully graduate to something bigger,  if not I'm breaking out my ultra light equipment.

Nice and Cool Thanksgiving, Just Like The Fishing

11.28-29

Water Temp 51-53

Hunter and I braved the cold Thursday and Friday with memories of last year's Black Friday slugfest.

Those memories are just that... memories, we couldn't put it together on these trips.

Friday in the 29 degree weather, we headed to the back yard and chased a school of redfish up and down the river bank with only one taker.  They were there as we could have thrown a net on them and limited out.  They must have ate a lot of turkey 'cause they sure weren't hungry.

Hunter did bag this fellow:

We then ran over to the trout hole and they were there with a nice keeper trout coming aboard immediately and then several other small ones came over the gunwales, but that slowed rather quickly.

We put the boat on the trailer and headed over to Battery Creek where we had a hot tip on a redfish bite.  But it didn't pan out as the tide had risen and the reds evidently don't like deeper water.

Saturday we trailered over to the Chechessee to try and duplicate last years redfish bonanza.  We were greeted with a little warmer morning and much more wildlife activity as the birds were flying and the dolphin were everywhere.  We covered a lot of water, but to no avail as we didn't even raise a bite in the pretty water.

As Hunter and I discussed later: Hey the boat ran good!