Fished with Vance this Memorial Day weekend and did pretty well on some early summer patterns. As usual we ran down from EG south towards Cockroach. The bay was a little rough heading down but we quickly made it to the first flat. We were fishing an incoming high tide so we thought we would drift for some early morning trout. The water was slightly off-colored from the outgoing tide and wind blown water so we had problems finding the sand holes early on under the low light conditions but we found some underslot trout after we found some clearer water as we got back a little shallower on our drift.
As we got shallow we started noticing more activity and found some mullet jumping as well so we were both thinking that this might be the place to find a redfish. It wasn't long after that when I pitched in a pothole to watch the cork disappear and start screaming across the flat. I was rewarded with a nice right underslot redfish that got it's picture taken and put in the cooler.
We ended up fishing that area for a while and let the current take us by the mangroves looking for snook but there none to be found so we headed out and further down south to set up another drift and get set up to get into the backcountry.
We motored around the the front of Cockroach and set up a drift towards the mangroves and by the end of the drift we had caught a couple more smaller trout and completed the trash can slam (cats, ladys and pins). With not much trout action and with the current quickly peaking we figured it was time to head to some summer holes inside so we got on the trolling motor set up casting up against the mangroves. We didn't have a single bite at the first stop until we were about to move where I got a small red about 20 ft from the boat. We had gotten a little to close to the mangroves so we decided then to head to the cut to hopefully pick up some more reds and maybe a snook.
We get set up and the current was flowing quickly under the mangroves which is perfect for this hole so we proceeded to get some shrimp out there. It was quickly determined that Vance's set up was a tad to long so I handed him my rod to fix his leader length and the cork disappeared!
It was the perfect size red for dinner and it had multiple spots and was really bronze. It wasn't long before Vance found another red and this one we got on some video.
I got on the board in that hole as well and by the time the tide died in a hour or so we had pulled out over a half dozen nice reds up to 22 inches. Some were right at the slot but they were spunky and fun to pull in. We had a couple solid strikes that we missed as well with one memorable strike on a pinfish. From there the tide was quickly dying so we eased out back to the channel and then a quick run back to EG to clean some fish and get home!
Vance sent me the picture from his grill and we had some redfish tacos for dinner so all in all a great day!
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