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Fished with Sidecutter sunday in west bay, best day fish wize this year. I meet james at his house around 4:30 and we headed to the boat ramp, stopped and got some shrimp and a few finger mullet. Splashed the boat around 6:45 after the wait at the ramp, not a line just people that dont know ramp protocal.
Being late summer the best place to find slot reds is shallow water mud and grass, so we pointed to boat to the closest flat we could find. The plan was to wade and wade we did. We hopped out and moved up to the grass trowing shrimp. on the way there i caught a dink trout or 2. But once the cork was with in 2 feet of the grass line it did not take more then 5 mins for Mr red to find it. After a good fight a 22" red was on the stringer and a shrimp was back in the same place. 5 mins later the cork takes off again, this one had alittle more gusto to him but not much. Another good tug and 23" red on the stringer. I call James over but the fish had moved off from the mash cut i was fishing at and the small trout moved in. I went back to the boat for some more bait and a smoke and back in the water i went ready to fill my limit. I got with in 50 feet of the grass and could see fish tailing. I casted in and the wind carried the cork right to the middle on the school. It went under and came back up so fast i knew i messed up, reeled in to find a empty hook. The next cast was placed just right of the school and it did not sit there very long before i was hooked up. 22 1/2" red on the stringer and i switch over to soft plastic in hopes of a flounder sitting in the area. I slowly worked the shore line back towards the boat, with out a single bump.
James meet me there and he had 2 reds on the stringer 20 1/2" and 21". We B.S'ed and talked about fish we missed and decided with the tide moving like it was we need to hit the causeway for some trout.
At the bridge the water was moving and so were the bikes. We must have seen or heard about a thousand bike on the road going in both directions.
We put out some mullet on fish finder rigs in hopes of a fluonder and got some shrimp in the water to feed the trout. James struck first with the bigest trout of the day a nice solid 22" fatty. And then i got one that was 19". Then James hooks up again but it came off half way to the boat in a head shake. We look to the back of the boat to see james flounder rig doubled over and pow, there goes 100 or more yards of 35lb power pro. While james is rigging up another rod i box another trout 18". We moved down aways because the bite slowed there and i box another trout 17". We moved again to find some more and after a little wait i got one trout 16 1/2". Then the bite died. We moved around some more but nothing. So we headed back to were we found the red fish in hopes of 1 more or some flounder.
We got there and the bait stealers were thick as bugs. We eased up to the grass at the very tail end of an incoming tide. There were flounder busting bait so we put the few finger mullet we had left to work. I pulled 1 13 1/2" flounder in that would have made my slam if he was just a tad longer oh well. We messed around a little longer and James caught a really good size sheepshead that i decided to keep. Out of finger mullet and good sized shrimp we called it a day and head to the ramp.
At the ramp we were greated by Kay. We B.S'ed for a little and then head to the house. It was a good day on the water and after a year and ahalf i finally out fished James. I guess thats the last time he invites me. j/k. pics to follow shortly.
Josh
Being late summer the best place to find slot reds is shallow water mud and grass, so we pointed to boat to the closest flat we could find. The plan was to wade and wade we did. We hopped out and moved up to the grass trowing shrimp. on the way there i caught a dink trout or 2. But once the cork was with in 2 feet of the grass line it did not take more then 5 mins for Mr red to find it. After a good fight a 22" red was on the stringer and a shrimp was back in the same place. 5 mins later the cork takes off again, this one had alittle more gusto to him but not much. Another good tug and 23" red on the stringer. I call James over but the fish had moved off from the mash cut i was fishing at and the small trout moved in. I went back to the boat for some more bait and a smoke and back in the water i went ready to fill my limit. I got with in 50 feet of the grass and could see fish tailing. I casted in and the wind carried the cork right to the middle on the school. It went under and came back up so fast i knew i messed up, reeled in to find a empty hook. The next cast was placed just right of the school and it did not sit there very long before i was hooked up. 22 1/2" red on the stringer and i switch over to soft plastic in hopes of a flounder sitting in the area. I slowly worked the shore line back towards the boat, with out a single bump.
James meet me there and he had 2 reds on the stringer 20 1/2" and 21". We B.S'ed and talked about fish we missed and decided with the tide moving like it was we need to hit the causeway for some trout.
At the bridge the water was moving and so were the bikes. We must have seen or heard about a thousand bike on the road going in both directions.
We put out some mullet on fish finder rigs in hopes of a fluonder and got some shrimp in the water to feed the trout. James struck first with the bigest trout of the day a nice solid 22" fatty. And then i got one that was 19". Then James hooks up again but it came off half way to the boat in a head shake. We look to the back of the boat to see james flounder rig doubled over and pow, there goes 100 or more yards of 35lb power pro. While james is rigging up another rod i box another trout 18". We moved down aways because the bite slowed there and i box another trout 17". We moved again to find some more and after a little wait i got one trout 16 1/2". Then the bite died. We moved around some more but nothing. So we headed back to were we found the red fish in hopes of 1 more or some flounder.
We got there and the bait stealers were thick as bugs. We eased up to the grass at the very tail end of an incoming tide. There were flounder busting bait so we put the few finger mullet we had left to work. I pulled 1 13 1/2" flounder in that would have made my slam if he was just a tad longer oh well. We messed around a little longer and James caught a really good size sheepshead that i decided to keep. Out of finger mullet and good sized shrimp we called it a day and head to the ramp.
At the ramp we were greated by Kay. We B.S'ed for a little and then head to the house. It was a good day on the water and after a year and ahalf i finally out fished James. I guess thats the last time he invites me. j/k. pics to follow shortly.
Josh
