New Years Day at the Warrior
Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:54 am
We headed out the "channel" around 0800 in my buddies 14' jon boat. There was barely enough water to float it with the offshore wind howling around 20 knots. It's been a long time since I've fished from such a craft and I was skeptical about making it back. Anyway we had to go all the way to the tripod before there was enough water to make a cast. Water was MUD from all of the wind.
We started there and let the wind push us out with the remain outgoing tide. Third cast I hooked a red around 25" and followed that with a 18 inch trout. Not bad considering the conditions. We weren't in a foot of water yet. The first drift yielded 1 more red and two trout. We came back around and redid the drift about 4 times with the same results mixing in a few shorts per drift. Ended up with 4 Reds, kept two and 7 fat trout to 20". All caught on Red fish Magic with red jig head.
On a side note: The last two trips the same guy has cut me off. White Xpress with red lettering in the rear. YOU sir need to take a fishing ethics class or just stop fishing.
Good luck to all in this New Year.
We started there and let the wind push us out with the remain outgoing tide. Third cast I hooked a red around 25" and followed that with a 18 inch trout. Not bad considering the conditions. We weren't in a foot of water yet. The first drift yielded 1 more red and two trout. We came back around and redid the drift about 4 times with the same results mixing in a few shorts per drift. Ended up with 4 Reds, kept two and 7 fat trout to 20". All caught on Red fish Magic with red jig head.
On a side note: The last two trips the same guy has cut me off. White Xpress with red lettering in the rear. YOU sir need to take a fishing ethics class or just stop fishing.
Good luck to all in this New Year.
