

I stopped on the way to "the spot" because I saw lots of fish in the water. Couldn't tell what they were because of the chop, but decided to give it a shot. Fished for a few minutes with no luck, then I heard Seth say "Holy crap man, check out this redfish!". About the time I said "Huh?", I heard his drag start screaming. As the fish got closer to the boat, we realized how big it actually was, then I said it, "I hope he's legal!", not realizing that I had just jinxed my buddy to the most extreme degree. Got the fish in the boat, seth held the head on the tape while I took the reading. "Sorry buddy, 27 1/2"." No matter how close he held the red's nose to the top of the tape, the tail still reached past the 27" mark.

We picked up a couple of keeper trout in that area, then ran north. We picked up 7 more, making it one short of a 2-man limit. 9 trout in 9 hours. Slow. They ranged from 15"-18", nothing worth weighing but certainly worth frying up

We were catching them on subsurface walk-the-dog baits and Gulp shrimp and jerk shad. We threw several other lures, but they didn't seem to want anything else we had to offer. Mostly in 5-6' of water.