Aucilla 7/28/07

caseycook · Post by **caseycook** » July 28th, 2007, 5:23 pm

Low tide at 6:30, on the water by 6 a.m....too dark to run, so we had to idle out the river. Got to the first fishing spot around 6:20, wind was blowing pretty hard out of the W, lots of floating grass present. Began fishing with topwater, but the floating grass made it frustrating. If you could get a cast in without grabbing grass, you'd most likely get a hit, but only every 20th cast or so would be grass-free. Both my dad and I missed some big strikes at spot 1 on topwater, but the floating grass made us switch baits; me to an 1/8 oz jighead and a 5 inch JS and Pops went for the TS Special. He later went with the jighead, gulp and strike indicator despite my taunts. We continued fishing with these baits in 2-3' of water and caught several nice trout.

Spot 1 became crowded with boats so we decided to explore and just let the boat drift East for a while. The wind was helping as it kept us drifting in the same 2-3' water depth. I switched to a Bite-a-bait twitchbait and hooked some fat upper slot trout. After drifting for a mile or so, we came to an area I'd heard about (but could never find) and it was niiiiiice. First cast through the area and an upper /over slot red takes out a bunch of drag on the twitchbait rod. Get him to the boat when he makes one last run and breaks off the back hooks of the bite-a-bait. Re-tie quickly and hook into another good red...the same thing happens. Finally learn that I needed to loosen the drag and land a nice 25.5" red. Pops also catches a couple good ones.

Our best five trout for the day were 23.5", 2 19", 2 18" and our two best reds were 25.5" and 25". It was a good day on the water with my dad.

Pops with the big trout of the day

Skip's red

Nice red

blindhog#3 · Post by **blindhog#3** » July 28th, 2007, 5:52 pm

very nice

good to see ol' chucktown out.

whendrix · Post by **whendrix** » July 28th, 2007, 5:55 pm

nice catch

Post by **snatch-n-reel** » July 29th, 2007, 2:08 am

nice fish for the skipster that sure is a nice shirt he is wearing.
what do you have to do to get one of those. I must not be cleaning the boat good enough.

Post by **Reel Cowboy** » July 30th, 2007, 7:44 am

Sounds like another great trip Casey

Post by **birddog** » July 30th, 2007, 12:51 pm

Solid day CC.

Post by **Barhopr** » July 30th, 2007, 1:11 pm

Way to put pops on the fish

That red you're holding ain't bad either

Post by **Reel Slow** » July 30th, 2007, 6:57 pm

WTG Casey...hate there were no 40"ers for ya

Post by **Eerman** » July 30th, 2007, 6:58 pm

Nice feesh

Post by **tin can** » July 30th, 2007, 7:58 pm

Good trip.

CATCH 22 · Post by **CATCH 22** » July 30th, 2007, 8:10 pm

Yet another fine day, You be puttin a hurtin on em

Post by **BAD BEHAVIOR** » July 31st, 2007, 11:09 pm

Still waiting on lessons there CC!!