Mon. 16th PSJ
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 12:31 am
Called up BayGator at work to see if he wanted to fish the negative tide after work on Mon. about 5:30-6 till dark. It didn't take much to talk him into it. Put in at Presnells about 6 with the tide stage at 0. We headed to the back of the Bay to see if anybody was home on the, by then, nearly dry flats. We shut down just short of a bar that has visible grass showing and Baygator is on point and I'm on the platform. I ease us up on the flat toward a few pushes I see in the grass. We hold off the flat a little and in a few minutes we see backs out of the water about two cast out and heading off the flat toward deeper water. We turn West and work down a shallow grass line. There were reds working all over the edge. The low light had us casting at wakes and swirls mostly. John cast out to a nearby wake on the edge and a red Hit the spoon hard and starts taking line. After a short fight we get him in the boat. Nice 25" Red.
He had the spoon all the way past his crushers and it took us the next 10 min. to get it out without killing him. We eased around a little more after that but the flat seemed to cool off. We decided to go over to the West side and finish the day. By this time the tide was -.3 and was about as low as it was to get. Baygator finished off the day with topwater and had around 3-4 reds follow the topwater all the way to the boat, and one that followed it a good 30 feet pushing a wake just behind the bait, only to turn off right at the rod tip. Only boated one fish in the two hours we were on the water but no skunk in the boat. I appreciate you going BG. We'll hit one of those night trips we talked about.
He had the spoon all the way past his crushers and it took us the next 10 min. to get it out without killing him. We eased around a little more after that but the flat seemed to cool off. We decided to go over to the West side and finish the day. By this time the tide was -.3 and was about as low as it was to get. Baygator finished off the day with topwater and had around 3-4 reds follow the topwater all the way to the boat, and one that followed it a good 30 feet pushing a wake just behind the bait, only to turn off right at the rod tip. Only boated one fish in the two hours we were on the water but no skunk in the boat. I appreciate you going BG. We'll hit one of those night trips we talked about.
