Redfish Fun
Its been a while since ive posted on here, mainly due to the fact that Kaylin and I have been working hard to get the new house ready to move in. We are finally completely moved in, with the boat in place and everything complete to make it a living palace.
Now that that is done, I am now accepting guided trips again for this year. I think it is going to be a banner year for everything that swims in our local waters. The cold winter is going to help the trout populations come alive. The redfish and flounder are already showing GREAT numbers in the west bay marshes as well.
Just last night, Capt Clint Sholmire and myself went out for two hours of just fun fishing checking some of the spots i was able to sight cast to some redfish last week. We got to the first spot and immediately saw some redfish up close to the grass, however these fish did not want what we were throwing (KFM and tops). Clint caught a nice 18” flattie on a KFM pump/chart and that was it in this spot.
We moved down to a protected shoreline where i had been doing good last week and proceded to drift along it with anticipation of some good reds. Clint couldnt stand it that there was mullet flippin around everywhere so he put on his topwater and started casting… Not half way through his first cast a red just SMASHED his badonk a donk… It acted like a 28” fish, but it was a think 18” lol… Beautiful fish though with over 9 spots…
We continued down this shoreline getting a few hits here and there and seeing ALOT of flounder running for there lives lol.. This was a good sigh, even though we didnt pull anymore flounder. We did however eventually find the reds we were looking for, we hit one spot on this shoreline that had a bunch of oysters scattered in the mud and the reds were right where they were supposed to be. We had two keepers ( these were for my dinner tonight lol. I have a KILLER redfish on the halfshell recipe) in about 20 yards and about 5 fish that came unbuttoned.. They were all caught on 1/8 oz jigheads with pump/chart Texas tackle factory killer flats minnows. We found the fish wanted them bounced when in mud, but as soon as you hit shell a slow retrieve to keep them from the oysters was best.
IT was a great 2 hours with a good friend and fishing buddy. Chance are, sunday we will be doing this again but this time all day.. We have some new spots we want to try and a few new colors to try as well.
Capt. Thomas
