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After the tide fiasco yesterday, Millertime and I went down to HM to fish the last of the incoming tide. We got to the landing and it was pretty dry, but we managed to get out of the main creek. I landed a keeper trout on the third cast, so that erased the weekend skunk. We crawled out to the flats and looked for reds in 8-12 inches of water with no luck. Went to one of the deeper creeks with the same result.

Finally around 3:00 the water started coming in and the trout picked up in a hurry. I did end up with a 21 inch male, which is a personal best. I caught 10 or so around one of the outer bars. Millertime made his way over and landed a fat upperslot red.

Not the best fishing day ever, but it was a nice end to a slow fishing weekend.


Here are a couple of the trout.




Millertime with the lone red

At least you got out there and found a few. Nice job.

Flint River Pirate wrote:At least you got out there and found a few. Nice job.

Ditto.

Good day WD

Nice Trout!

sounds like you were looking in the right spots but the fish did not want to cooperate. Last time we were there at a real low tide action was tough also. At least you got a nice trout.

Very Nice.
I would really like to know how to determine gender of trout.

Trout are members of the drum family and male trout, like black drum, make a croaking sound in order to call females to spawn. Female trout do not have that capability and grow much larger than the males.

I thought you were a science guy Lit???

Nice Red too!!

Nice going Walt.

Nice fish guys!

Thanks

So male trout grunt like Tim the Toolman Taylor! Looked like a great day of catching! Good job.

Trout are members of the drum family and male trout, like black drum, make a croaking sound in order to call females to spawn. Female trout do not have that capability and grow much larger than the males.

With that new info JT can add Trout Sexer to his resume!

WaltDawg wrote:Trout are members of the drum family and male trout, like black drum, make a croaking sound in order to call females to spawn. Female trout do not have that capability and grow much larger than the males.
I thought you were a science guy Lit???

Thanks. Yeah, I like to know stuff but I forget most of it. I knew they were drum but I was hoping you knew a field mark that was more dependable than drumming.