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Down to the coast for the first trip of the year. Also, the first trip in the new boat and it performed great. it was probably the worst weekend i have had at econfina, but we still did well, had fantastic weather and got to spend some great time with my dad and our friends on the coast. friday was pretty good for the reds, saturday was just really really tough, and sunday was pretty good for trout. we had perfect weather for the entire weekend with temps in the mid 50's in the mornings and upper 70's in the afternoon. the tides however were the worst that i have ever fished. we usually only head down when there are good tides, but we just couldn't stand it any longer.

friday we got down the usual noonish time. we went straight out for the reds and ended up with 14 reds for the day. we then fished for some trout on the way in and ended up with 7 trout. as it was for the entire weekend, we probably caught 60-70 trout each day, but almost all of them were 14 and 3/4 inches long. the first picture is of the first red of the year, first red in the new boat and first red on a new rod by a friend of mine steve broadwell who makes the best rods ever. our two keepers were great tourney reds being 26.5 inches and 26.75 inches.

sorry for the no shirt, but wanted to show off the first red with the rod.


then we had the rest of these



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saturday there was no tide movement at all. got to meet DAWGHOUSE at the ramp. great meeting you and super nice boat. we worked the hardest i have ever worked for 7 trout and 8 redfish. we did have some fun however with two cobia and some bluefish while trout fishing.





Sunday the water did not move til around 1:30, so we never worked for any reds. we did manage 7 more trout with two sows that were 22 inches and 21 inches.

overall a great weekend with my pops enjoying some great weather.

Ain't nothing wrong with that catch

Great job....

Man you guys will be eating fish for a while, nice Cobe too!

Your sorry weekend is still better than my best one! Nice haul.

Nice day

Hate to see what you call a good weekend! Nice catch

Reel Slow wrote:Hate to see what you call a good weekend! Nice catch

I've seen it....it left a big fish smell at the condo

That's a really good job in those slack tides. Quite a catch!

i guess i should clarify my worst weekend comment. it does sound kind of arrogant and i didn't mean it that way at all. i guess it should be more like the hardest weekend i have ever had to fish for what few fish we caught. usually you just don't have to work as hard as we did for them this weekend. and usually you don't have to wade thru 50 trout to catch 6 or 7 keepers each day. it was still an awesome weekend as it always is at econfina whether you catch fish or not, i was just a lot more tired on sunday than usual.heheheheh be down again this weekend for the wife's b day. hope to meet some of you on the water.

mudducker, is that jail break still stinking down there? heheheheh

mook, that is kind of what i was talking about. the tides were terrible and you could really tell by the way the fish bit. but, we knew that going down, we just were dying to get on the coast. gonna be some great tides this weekend.

It was good to meet you Volguy. Looks like yall did better than I did. Awesome new boat by the way . I'm glad I let you get in front leaving the ramp and not putter along behind me at 40mph out the river. You need to get someone to video you getting on plane . When you left the no wake zone it looked like a controlled exposion when you got on it. I'm glad you had a good weekend

Dawghouse, it does have one heck of a hole shot. that is good however at the econ, cause i like to get up and over those rocks very fast. ......rocks hope to see you this weekend.

How was the grass on the flats? I heard there was no grass down there...

What kind of boat are you running?

I'd say it was a very good weekend.

atticus,

the key as always is to finding good grass. it is out there, you just have to hunt for it. the grass is only a few inches tall on the majority of the flats cause it is still a little early, however, there are places that have good grass.