Fished Sunday from around 1030 to 500pm, all on the west flats. Water temps were 74 to 75, with a varied wind from the west northwest. It started cloud, but was a beautiful sunny day by noon. We fished in 3' to 5' most of the day, working gulp and shrimp under corks, as well as throwing some paddletails. The corks worked well, bringing up plenty of short trout, catfish and two small sharks. This FishBites lure worked pretty well bounced along the bottom. It got inhaled several times, and finally wore out, I'll need to replenish my supply.
As high tide approached, we headed north to Paddy's Island and worked the oyster bar and some of the shoreline with no success. The wind also made navigating somewhat difficult, as the trolling motor struggled to move the boat against some of the gusts. I'm still struggling with any sort of capability to locate and catch redfish, despite some of these efforts around oyster bars and shorelines.
We threw back lots of shorts, and a 21" trout, but kept 3 for the box and dinner.
