Reds on top of reds!

At some point this morning I was afraid that we were going to waste an absolutely perfect day for fishing.   It was overcast and raining off and on, we had a slow outgoing tide and the water temperature stayed around 53 degrees.

I am starting to believe that the redfish have eaten all the trout or, at the very least, made it difficult to beat them to your lure.  We had already left the redfish twice when we briefly found the trout in 3 feet of water on the La. shoreline.  A really good fish came unbuttoned on a Fat Boy and the next two casts immediately produced solid trout.

We were fishing a stretch of shoreline that has held good numbers of big trout over the years, but it was over as quickly as it started.  On the very next cast a redfish crashed a Swim Bait and I pulled one off on the Corky.  For the next three hours we caught redfish almost every cast.

It was so crazy that we switched to 5-inch Assassins and decided to see how far we could drift before the bite at least slowed a little.  We covered the better part of a mile and were still getting hammered.  We moved two more times with the same results.  The only other two fishermen we saw on the water said they experienced the same thing further down the lake.

The fact that our best trout catching days over the past month, and both were very good ones, took place in 5 feet of water may possibly mean that the trout are just giving the shallow water to the hordes of redfish.  I would think that it would make it difficult for a big sow trout to ambush her one mullet for the day with redfish continuously stampeding anything that moves.

The same thing happened last January to some degree, but we quite possibly have even more redfish this year.  I believe its just a matter of time before someone figures it out and makes us all look good, but until that happens you better put your Corkies back in the box and loosen your drag!