11-11-09 Veteran's Day
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 2:21 pm
My buddy Seth and I both had Veteran's Day off, so we decided to go fishing even though the forecast called for 20+ mph winds. We woke up to find that the winds had died down quite a bit, and the rain was mostly gone. The forecast now called for 6-8 mph winds. Woohoo!!!
We were fishing up a creek by 8:00. We worked our way pretty far up the creek, picking up only one under-slot trout along the way. After a while, we decided that the weather was cooperating, so we headed out onto the flats. Seth picked up a barely legal redfish pretty quick and then started catching trout. After a couple hours, seth had his five trout and one redfish to my one trout.
I've been trying to break myself of my Gulp addiction, so I was throwing everything I had in my tacklebox, but I broke down and used a Gulp jerk shad to catch my one trout (hey, at least it wasn't the shrimp).
We moved back up into a different creek looking for some bigger fish. I was out of jerk shads because the blackfish kept stealing the tails, so I put on the old trusty Gulp 4" shrimp (New Penny). I was rewarded shortly with an 18 inch trout. Seth followed with one more 18 incher and I hooked an under-slot redfish before returning to the ramp.
We ended up with 8 trout and one redfish. We got drizzled on a couple of times, but that's one of my favorite kinds of weather to fish in. I'm glad we decided to go despite the forecast!
We were fishing up a creek by 8:00. We worked our way pretty far up the creek, picking up only one under-slot trout along the way. After a while, we decided that the weather was cooperating, so we headed out onto the flats. Seth picked up a barely legal redfish pretty quick and then started catching trout. After a couple hours, seth had his five trout and one redfish to my one trout.
I've been trying to break myself of my Gulp addiction, so I was throwing everything I had in my tacklebox, but I broke down and used a Gulp jerk shad to catch my one trout (hey, at least it wasn't the shrimp).
We moved back up into a different creek looking for some bigger fish. I was out of jerk shads because the blackfish kept stealing the tails, so I put on the old trusty Gulp 4" shrimp (New Penny). I was rewarded shortly with an 18 inch trout. Seth followed with one more 18 incher and I hooked an under-slot redfish before returning to the ramp.
We ended up with 8 trout and one redfish. We got drizzled on a couple of times, but that's one of my favorite kinds of weather to fish in. I'm glad we decided to go despite the forecast!
And good luck with that Gulp addiction! Great weather indeed to fish in...Thanks again man...Look forward to next time~ And yes I limited out in two species 