First flat. No luck on topwater. Water temp around 63. TK goes with soft plastic jerkbait, I throw mirrolure. I put a nice enough trout in the box. Then TK adds a keeper and we also land a couple shorts. Bite stops with the tide. We decide to use our time to idle in shallower.
We get to spot #2. This is going to require some finnesse. Minn Kota doesn't want to play.
Spot #2 won't work without it. Fish a little, get discouraged, decide to do something else. Idle deeper into spot #3. Few short trout and a keeper. No water moving, no wind. This isn't going to be a banner day. 3 keepers in the box. Grass looks good, water is clear, its a little cold, and there is no tide. Plus the moon phase isnt' all that great.
Tom directs us to spot #4. Deeper water. Water is cloudy. First cast on a straight jig Tom reels a blue to the gunnel. Spanish andblues are visible through the murk when they swirl on our baits. This is like trash fishing. Not looking good.
Reposition our drift. throwing straight jigs. Tom hooks a MONSTER FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What is it? He thinks its a huge red. We have to chase it with the boat. Tom stands on bow. I idle after the fish. We catch it and it pulls more drag on another run. We chase it again. Tom is directing the orchestra from the bow. No boga grip. Little rubber net is all I got. Tom is hooked up on a with a bass-sized Curado. The fish rises, its on the surface. Its a huge red. 38 inches or more. It looks tired. It swirls, the line goes slack. Leader broke.
Well that livened things up. Lets go hit that drift again. We reposition. A few strikes from the blue/spanish cowd. The water is getting clearer. Its about 66 degrees by now.
I am throwing a 2500 Stradic. 10/2 PowerPro. Cotee jig head from Walmart. Team Daiwa Inshore ML rod from Walmart. 5" Gulp jerkshad in white. 25lb floro leader. .50 cent Spro swivel the size of a sugar ant.
Nice hit. Solid hookup. FIsh stays low. Hes fighting but hugging the bottom. "No I'm allright Tom." "I got him under control." "No, we don't need to fire up." Fish takes a run, then another one, then a third...
"Okay Tom lets run this guy down a bit." Fish runs straight. Fish runs left. FIsh runs right. Tom is on the wheel. I am trying to hold on.
The fish runs then wallows in the bottom. We idle up. The fish runs back below the boat under the transom and reverses course. We spin around. The rod is talking to me. There is no backbone in it. I use it to toss jerkbaits a country mile. This is out of spec. I can't horse the fish if I tried. The fish makes a couple more cutbacks under the transom when we idle up on him. We have been on him for about 15 minutes. He comes up. Huge red.
Tom gets him in the boat.
Awesome experience. We hit the same drift a few more times. Jackson puts a spanish in the box and we bag another keeper trout that I gut hooked. Headed into the ramp early and got the boat washed.
Just filleted the trout and they were full of roe.
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