I received a couple of tips on how to attack the redfish at a seminar earlier this year. So after chasing the sweet water fish in Florida this month, Nancy and I hit the river to try some redfish chasing this morning.
Using some of the tips I received we were rewarded with 6 nice reds.
Nancy got on board first with a nice 22" redfish that our on quite a battle after inhaling her mud minnow. Nancy isn't much at using artificial bait, but is pretty good at soaking live bait. I just switched to rigging her minnows with a 1/0 mutu light wire circle hook by Owner. Both of her fish were hooked perfectly in the jaw.
I finally got it going while fishing in front of a creek cut. The water was getting muddied up due to the boat traffic caused by everyone who has spring fever.
I was trying a new rigging of a 4" gulp shrimp. I cut the tail off and texas rigged it backwards. It didn't get hung up on the oysters the whole trip.
I was blind casting to the mud line when I caught two in three casts. They were both in the slot at 19". The reds here in Beaufort are very colorful and full of spots as you can see by these tail photos.
Finally about half way through the rising tide, I had a swing and a miss on my bait.
The next cast yielded a rod bending strike as this two foot red mashed the gulp about a foot off the oyster strewn bank. What a battle and what a hit!
Red fishing is a lot like deer hunting.
Patience, patience, patience.
