Finally after spending most of Friday traveling back from Philadelphia and only getting a few hours sleep Friday night was I able to go fishing, John Vickers and myself were fishing the NFGFC (http://www.nfgfc.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) redfish tournament. There were a total of 29 boats in the field, which was a club record for any tournament.
Fishing was from our observations great and from the pre and post weigh-in chatter everyone had seen many redfish from Econfina river all the way to the Carrabelle river (roughly 54 miles of great redfishing).
We headed out of Carrabelle looking for the targeted species, first stop was outside of a sand bar that was pretty much void of life, and so we moved. Second stop was the beginning of our first drift along the bank, which resulted in basically our day of fishing. We immediately saw redfish after redfish and that pattern stayed true all day; we estimate that we saw over 100 redfish.
The water was super shallow and gin clear, the fish that we saw feeding were catch able, the laid up or cruising fish if with in sight were almost impossible to catch. We ended up catching 20 or so reds, John hooked an over slot fish that had his way with John and left him with his knees knocking. I caught one that was a 1/2-inch to long, here’s the only picture of the day.
We managed to catch several fish that were 25.5 inches long, we kept looking for that 27″ fish, but only found a 24 1/2″. That 24 1/2″ fishing weighed a whopping 6.38 lbs, that was good enough for us to place 3rd in a field of 29 teams.
We caught the fish on Capt. Mike spoons and Charlie soft plastics.
Thanks to my NFGFC partner John Vickers for guiding us to the 3rd place finish.
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