Schooling Red Fish

[Hollywood]

My buddy and I went out fishing recently and had one of the most amazing trips ever, this was something we rarely get to see but we actually found a school of 50-60 redfish scooling, tailing and feeding in an area on small crabs. We managed to catch 4 before the school got spooky and the tide switched and they were gone. One of the pictures is from a second trip we took on a friday afternoon and caught 10 redfish and I hooked my first Tarpon.

[lmmoore]

Nice, what area were you fishing?

[charlie tuna]

Great pictures and report, sounds like an action packed day !!

[tallykenj]

Nice

[Redbelly]

What fun! Give us the exact location please.

[fishinfool]

Stay off my hole.

[Hollywood]

I will say that the top water action was great until about 8am then switched to Aqua Dream gold spoon or a slayer pink jig head with a root beer gulp with a chartrucse tail and make sure you have a fluorocarbon leader.

[Pirate]

Were you in Florida??

[kikstand454]

Great fish! Wow Wtg!

[onefishtwofish]

Schooling reds is as fun as fishing gets to me. I have only done it a few times and it was awesome! Way to go.

[Williamsdad]

Agree, totally amazing. We "lucked" into a similar situation on Saturday while fishing the tournament. In addition to the 3-4 overslot we released or broke off, Luc scored a just under 27 (big redfish = $290.00) and I had a second @ 26 just in case his grew in the cooler, which it did not. What fun, and ca-ching!

[redcodefsu]

That redfish is prettier than Wiley.

[Hollywood]

Well don't hold it against me because of the company I keep.

[bman]

If you post your exact GPS coordinates here we'll all be happy... Looks like a great day . I have experienced the same thing several times and it is amazing. The favorite memory was in St. Joe Bay; water was so clear you could see them schooling on the bottom it looked like the grass had turned red

[MudDucker]

If you post your exact GPS coordinates here we'll all be happy... Looks like a great day . I have experienced the same thing several times and it is amazing. The favorite memory was in St. Joe Bay; water was so clear you could see them schooling on the bottom it looked like the grass had turned red

I have seen them several times at St. Joe Bay. Looked like a red fish parade. One morning I looked down and a school of stingrays came through by the hundreds followed by a large school of reds, then more stingrays and more reds, each in their own pods. I found myself sitting there with my rod and reel in hand not casting, just watching.