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We embarked on another journey to the fertile waters of the Apalachee Bay last weekend.
Based on the hot weather, the water temperature & the smaller size of the reds we’ve caught this year, we had low expectations.

We haven’t gotten much love from the bigger reds this year so we opted for an East River voyage on Saturday morning. We sought to catch the falling tide off one of our preferred oyster bars.

It was a little slow to begin with, (1 red @ 19”, 1 trout, 2 black sea bass) but as the water started moving pretty good, Rob discovered their hide-out. It took him several minutes to land a “tournament quality” 27” red.
That was all it took to get all 4 of us down to that end of the bar. Rob, Bartman, Kent & Bullet were all catching nice reds at that point.
About 35 minutes later, we had landed 15 nice reds & released 12 of them. We had to keep the 19” red since he had already been put on ice. We ended up with 4 reds, 19”, 23”, 26.5” & 27”, a trout & a couple of black sea bass.

We ended up with 9.5 lbs of filets from the morning. It felt great to catch & clean quality fish again.

This is my 1st attempt @ loading pics on a post so be kind.

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OK. someone pleae help me. I'm not completely computer illiterate but my images are not visible. Under the FAQ's for this site, it references a link that is no longer valid for uploading. Thanks.

Congrats on a good day brother! If you are using photobucket you can simply copy and paste the image code from photobucket's website and paste it into your post here. You should see image code as the last thing of four under the pictures on photobucket. Good luck.

Thanks, Luc. I will try that. I guess I posted the wrong link. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to see your pics of the poons. That must have been awsome. Were you guys wading when you caught them or jus when you landed them?

Once you paste the links in your post, if you hit "Preview" before you post, it will break your link. Once you preview your post, you will have to re-paste the links. I'm not sure this is what happened with yours, but it's happened to me before.

OK, here I go again, without the preview. Thanks for the advice.

Outstanding day, congratulations. It is nice to see folks from Dothan(where I grew up) getting down to enjoy the area. Keep it up!!

Solid!

Outstanding. Thanks for the report.

Nice lookin fishes

great job!

Nice haul of Reds. I have not had much luck catching Reds lately but I think you have helped me solve my problems. I am going to try your "four yellow bait buckets" technique. Thanks for sharing!

RA, Contrary to what the image shows, the 4 yellow bait bucket technique is only effective when loaded w/ pinsfish & attached to a fisherman who is in the water.

Good fish! We caught the poons in the boat and then once we had them boatside we made a short idle to an area where we could get in the water for some quality pictures!