RedFishin 2008.07.25 - 26 Mook Rides Again!
Posted: July 29th, 2008, 9:05 pm
So I haven't posted many reports lately. In the last 5-6 weeks I've only been fishing a few times, and was glad to finally get a chance to get out some this weekend. Headed out with Mojo for a little late afternoon / early evening run Friday, then on a whim decided to do the JBT redfish tournament Saturday.
Friday we got out late afternoon, ran over to some areas we've chased big reds in the past. Had to stop short due to shallow water, but it was the rise, so we lifted up the motor, and pushed and trolled our way slowly across some flats, gettin stuck here and there and waiting on the rise. Within 10 minutes of cuttin off the big yammy-ha, we were in to some red action. I put a 24 in the box. 10-15 minutes later I put a 25 in the box. 10 minutes after that, Mojo broke off on a monster. 10 minutes after that, he lost another one. 10-15 minutes after that, I landed an over-slot, and so on, you get the idea. For 3-4 hours straight, we didn't go more than 10 minutes without a redfish on. After bagging 2 nice sized keeper, I proceeded to catch several more, including 3 consecutive over-slot reds at 31, 30 and 29 inches respectively, all on a small topwater lure (Spook Jr). I still laugh at this big fish big bait stuff when it comes to reds. I say, big bait, big noise, big spook-a-da-fish. I'm up to about 25 over slot reds caught this year and only a couple of them have been caught on anything over 3.5 inches. All but 3-4 have been on the super spook jr. Anyhow, got some pics and videos from that below.
Saturday - Me and Mojo met up around 5:30 and he says there's a JBT redfish tournament, so we enter and make the mistake of going out the lighthouse. Scallopers everywhere, couldn't run the boat hardly ever the dive flags were so thick. Fishing was way off the day before, and tide pattern was outgoing all day. The only decent keeper we got was a 24.5" that I got on a redfish magic spinner and weighed in at something like 4.38 pounds. I heard it was good enough to beat a team with two fish, so that's nice, but no money for us. At least we didn't break the law or weigh illegal fish to win money, and went home with some shred of dignity left.
Oh by the way this is the first time I got to really use my new Falcon LowRider spinning rod, so that's why I got a couple pics of that thing. If you, like me, always thought > $100 for a rod was ridiculous even though you use $200-300 reels, you are as mistaken as I was. I will be buying more of thse fo-sheezy! In the last video you can really see it go. Had the fish come around the bow, and even though the rod is very light and flexible, I was able to dig and horse a 29" redfish out from under the boat when he started going nuts on me.
The new rod - Falcon Low Rider XG 'Shakey Head Jig' spinning - with stradic 4000 and 10lb Sufix braid
Thanks to JT51 for getting them to hook me up with that
One of the slot fish
Think these two stills are both the 30" fish
Might wanna turn speakers down for the videos - the wind was ripping pretty good.
First video is of the 30 or 31 inch red that I caught, but had to do some serious editing. Camera was a little wet or something and got funny lines all over the film.
This is a better video of the smallest of the over slot fish I got Friday
Friday we got out late afternoon, ran over to some areas we've chased big reds in the past. Had to stop short due to shallow water, but it was the rise, so we lifted up the motor, and pushed and trolled our way slowly across some flats, gettin stuck here and there and waiting on the rise. Within 10 minutes of cuttin off the big yammy-ha, we were in to some red action. I put a 24 in the box. 10-15 minutes later I put a 25 in the box. 10 minutes after that, Mojo broke off on a monster. 10 minutes after that, he lost another one. 10-15 minutes after that, I landed an over-slot, and so on, you get the idea. For 3-4 hours straight, we didn't go more than 10 minutes without a redfish on. After bagging 2 nice sized keeper, I proceeded to catch several more, including 3 consecutive over-slot reds at 31, 30 and 29 inches respectively, all on a small topwater lure (Spook Jr). I still laugh at this big fish big bait stuff when it comes to reds. I say, big bait, big noise, big spook-a-da-fish. I'm up to about 25 over slot reds caught this year and only a couple of them have been caught on anything over 3.5 inches. All but 3-4 have been on the super spook jr. Anyhow, got some pics and videos from that below.
Saturday - Me and Mojo met up around 5:30 and he says there's a JBT redfish tournament, so we enter and make the mistake of going out the lighthouse. Scallopers everywhere, couldn't run the boat hardly ever the dive flags were so thick. Fishing was way off the day before, and tide pattern was outgoing all day. The only decent keeper we got was a 24.5" that I got on a redfish magic spinner and weighed in at something like 4.38 pounds. I heard it was good enough to beat a team with two fish, so that's nice, but no money for us. At least we didn't break the law or weigh illegal fish to win money, and went home with some shred of dignity left.
Oh by the way this is the first time I got to really use my new Falcon LowRider spinning rod, so that's why I got a couple pics of that thing. If you, like me, always thought > $100 for a rod was ridiculous even though you use $200-300 reels, you are as mistaken as I was. I will be buying more of thse fo-sheezy! In the last video you can really see it go. Had the fish come around the bow, and even though the rod is very light and flexible, I was able to dig and horse a 29" redfish out from under the boat when he started going nuts on me.
The new rod - Falcon Low Rider XG 'Shakey Head Jig' spinning - with stradic 4000 and 10lb Sufix braid
Thanks to JT51 for getting them to hook me up with that
One of the slot fish
Think these two stills are both the 30" fish
Might wanna turn speakers down for the videos - the wind was ripping pretty good.
First video is of the 30 or 31 inch red that I caught, but had to do some serious editing. Camera was a little wet or something and got funny lines all over the film.
This is a better video of the smallest of the over slot fish I got Friday
