Today was a little bit of a different story. After a frustrating morning battling the low tide and high winds, we were looking for things to turn around. We know that people catch fish deep so we gave that a shot early, but that's not really how we roll and we are out of our element out there. After screwing around with that and not doing much, we moved back in towards shore where we know what we are doing. We got on some fish but nothing to brag on and it seemed like all I was doing was breaking off lures and tieing knots, it was terrible. We were looking for it to turn around. My Dad was rewarded with a couple keeper trout on topwater and then we decided to make a move.
Once we got out into the area we wanted to focus on, it was on! I hooked a nice red on a good ole Jerry's shrimp and he wasn't alone. Before we knew it, we were surrounded by BIG reds. They were in a frenzy unlike anything I'd ever seen. My Dad hooked up right away and we had a good double going. My fish ended up being 26.5 and his was 32.5. After a quick photo op of our double, the big boy went back home and mine stayed on board with us. Once we had our fish landed, the school was no longer visible but the fish were clearly still in the area. For about an hour we caught keeper after keeper, with a few puppy reds and a few oversized reds mixed in. Ended up with something like 15 legal fish and 3 oversized and 3 puppies. Our biggest fish was that initial 32.5 inch red. We also released a 28 and a 27.1 inch red. We brough home two fish that were 26+ and two that were 23.5 inch twins. It was by far our best day of redfishin ever. Caught fish using lots of different techniques. What a day! I'm attaching lots of pictures as we were snapping away trying to keep track of the different fish we were catching.
Tight lines, I'll be back on the water Monday.
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