Schooling Red Fish
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Schooling Red Fish
My buddy and I went out fishing recently and had one of the most amazing trips ever, this was something we rarely get to see but we actually found a school of 50-60 redfish scooling, tailing and feeding in an area on small crabs. We managed to catch 4 before the school got spooky and the tide switched and they were gone. One of the pictures is from a second trip we took on a friday afternoon and caught 10 redfish and I hooked my first Tarpon.
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Nice, what area were you fishing?
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Great pictures and report, sounds like an action packed day !!
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What fun! Give us the exact location please.
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I will say that the top water action was great until about 8am then switched to Aqua Dream gold spoon or a slayer pink jig head with a root beer gulp with a chartrucse tail and make sure you have a fluorocarbon leader.
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Great fish! Wow Wtg!
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Schooling reds is as fun as fishing gets to me. I have only done it a few times and it was awesome! Way to go.
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Agree, totally amazing. We "lucked" into a similar situation on Saturday while fishing the tournament. In addition to the 3-4 overslot we released or broke off, Luc scored a just under 27 (big redfish = $290.00) and I had a second @ 26 just in case his grew in the cooler, which it did not. What fun, and ca-ching!
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That redfish is prettier than Wiley.
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If you post your exact GPS coordinates here we'll all be happy... Looks like a great day . I have experienced the same thing several times and it is amazing. The favorite memory was in St. Joe Bay; water was so clear you could see them schooling on the bottom it looked like the grass had turned red
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I have seen them several times at St. Joe Bay. Looked like a red fish parade. One morning I looked down and a school of stingrays came through by the hundreds followed by a large school of reds, then more stingrays and more reds, each in their own pods. I found myself sitting there with my rod and reel in hand not casting, just watching.bman wrote:If you post your exact GPS coordinates here we'll all be happy... Looks like a great day . I have experienced the same thing several times and it is amazing. The favorite memory was in St. Joe Bay; water was so clear you could see them schooling on the bottom it looked like the grass had turned red
Its a wonderful day in the neighborhood!