imhammer
September 15th, 2010, 03:22 PM
Made a recon run with Sal to East and Trinity this am. He was on some trout and reds and needed to check on them for the tournament this weekend and next.
We started drifting a reef that he has been catching good trout on. There were lots of slicks when we got there, but a big shrimp boat pulled in right as we were starting the drift and we only got one bite, so we went to look for the reds.
On the way to spot 2 we saw some birds working and caught a bunch of sandies and a couple of dinks in them.
We jumped out about 7:30 in about 3' of water over mud/sand/shell and there was bait everywhere. I started getting blow ups immediately and caught the first trout about 5 minutes into the wade. I planted my feet and stood in the same spot for about 1 1/2 hrs getting blow ups every cast and caught about 14-15 trout from 14" - 26 1/2" (6.25lbs) and some undersize reds mixed in, but no keepers. I had a bunch of HUGE Blow ups today that were coming completely out of the water and missing. I had to have had about 75 blow ups.
Sal was working a reef trying to find keeper reds and he only found a few undersize reds, 1 flounder and 1 sheepie on tails. He saw me hooking up constantly and yelling at him and finally made his way over to me and caught a few on tails, but couldn't connect on top.
There was a boat about 1/2 mi down that must have seen me catching fish also because they were about 20 yards from me by the time Sal got there and they caught a few also.
All fish were caught during (or close to) the major, but we headed back in about 11:00 so I could get to wprk and Sal could get ready for the GRS captains meeting. It was a great morning on the water. Caught and release 2 @ 23-24 and the 26 1/2 as well as a bunch of small keepers and undersize fish and kept a few for my in laws.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii160/imhammer/d5f58409-4222-4fb3-bbd8-3fc5e2dd7db0.jpg
We started drifting a reef that he has been catching good trout on. There were lots of slicks when we got there, but a big shrimp boat pulled in right as we were starting the drift and we only got one bite, so we went to look for the reds.
On the way to spot 2 we saw some birds working and caught a bunch of sandies and a couple of dinks in them.
We jumped out about 7:30 in about 3' of water over mud/sand/shell and there was bait everywhere. I started getting blow ups immediately and caught the first trout about 5 minutes into the wade. I planted my feet and stood in the same spot for about 1 1/2 hrs getting blow ups every cast and caught about 14-15 trout from 14" - 26 1/2" (6.25lbs) and some undersize reds mixed in, but no keepers. I had a bunch of HUGE Blow ups today that were coming completely out of the water and missing. I had to have had about 75 blow ups.
Sal was working a reef trying to find keeper reds and he only found a few undersize reds, 1 flounder and 1 sheepie on tails. He saw me hooking up constantly and yelling at him and finally made his way over to me and caught a few on tails, but couldn't connect on top.
There was a boat about 1/2 mi down that must have seen me catching fish also because they were about 20 yards from me by the time Sal got there and they caught a few also.
All fish were caught during (or close to) the major, but we headed back in about 11:00 so I could get to wprk and Sal could get ready for the GRS captains meeting. It was a great morning on the water. Caught and release 2 @ 23-24 and the 26 1/2 as well as a bunch of small keepers and undersize fish and kept a few for my in laws.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii160/imhammer/d5f58409-4222-4fb3-bbd8-3fc5e2dd7db0.jpg