I hate fishing weekends, but If I didn't have church and 3 deadlines to meet I would fish again tomorrow. The conditions were perfect again today and both the reds and specks were doing their thing.
We had a little stiffer west wind than we needed Thursday and Friday and a strong out going tide kept the water sucked down to the mud until mid afternoon, but it came back in just as strong and the water warmed up from 45 to 53 degrees both days.
Dr. Dan enjoyed a brief break from his duties as Mr. Mom !
I fished with Dr. Dan Martin Thursday afternoon and we just caught the heck out of the reds as well as a couple of very nice trout before taking an early quit to get him home to resume his Mr. Mom duties. They have a new baby and he has learned that being a Mom ain't all that easy. The reds were still shallow and the trout were still deep. We caught them on Swim Baits, Assassin Die Dappers, and a Red Killer fished under a Kwik Cork. Both trout came out of six feet of water.
Friday I fished with Rhett Johnson and Dustin Galmor and it was better than good. We had to wait until noon for it to really get going, but when the wind died down and the water warmed up to 56 degrees I knew it was just a matter of time. It wasn't like we weren't already catching fish as they both limited on reds in less than an hour and turned loose several more limits.
Tired of catching reds, we moved out into 5 to 6 feet of water and the trout were there. Surprisingly enough, the bite got better when the wind kicked back up and the water clarity quickly deteriorated. By the time we quit (the fish still had not) we were getting pounded by some pretty serious waves.
Dustin had it going on fishing a Corky in the whitecaps!
Dustin stayed with a Corky Devil while Rhett and I stuck with swimming Die Dappers on a 16th ounce head. Every trout we caught just crushed our lures and they were tough to corral in the whitecaps. A drift anchor was out of the question so each short drift was quick, but productive. We would drift until a redfish crashed the party in 3 to 4 feet of water before going back and starting over.
I don't know how they caught up with our baits, but we topped off the box with two very good flounder before calling it a day. One hit a Corky and the other ate a tail. I would have loved to have fished all day today, but time was not on our side. Derek had to catch a plane and just one more cast was not going to be an option.
Hoping to get their redfish limits quickly, both he and his brother-in-law, Matt, tied on Kwik Corks with tails on a 2-foot leader. Matt was using a roach colored Red Killer and his first fish was a 27-inch trout that he photographed with his phone and released. Derek limited on reds and released an over sized red on the first drift fishing a stinky pink Sea Shad, but Matt was not impressed and stuck with his Red Killer.
Not expecting to find the trout that early we moved out into deeper water and the bite was on. We caught only one more 26-inch trout, but they caught easy limits of 2 to 5-pound trout in less than two hours. I threw a little bit of everything and caught a lot of trout as well, but they held their own with the corks.
I missed the best trout I have had on this winter on a Fat Boy, but it was nice just to see a big trout as I have struggled to find those kind of fish lately. We fished two flats on the north end and never saw much traffic. Perhaps they have something going on that's even better than I have found, but I am not looking any further until it plays out!
After you sign off, I would appreciate a quick prayer for my good fishing buddy, Brad Deslatte, his wife, Julie, and their extended family. Julie's dad died unexpectedly this week and the funeral is tomorrow. It is never easy to say good-bye. Thanks a lot!
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