Fished this morning with Dudley and his son Linden. We had a great start out of EG with a good run south we pulled up on the slick calm flat. I jumped up on the poling platform and I had them start with some topwater baits to see if we could get on the board quickly. Well we had a fast blow up right off the sandbar and after working closer the mangroves we had already missed a couple of fish. Linden had a big blow up as well but for some reason the fish just missed the lure. They seemed to be short striking and we ended up missing a lot of fish until Dudley got on the board with a small trout.
We fished some pushes with no luck and so we pulled back to Schuster's hole. After a couple of missed fished I pulled out a keeper sheapshead. We pulled out a trout as well, but no redfish. I think the couple of fish that took the shrimp away from were reds but thats fishing for sure. By that time the tide was slowing down so we worked some mangroves and decided to run a little south. We saw some activity out towards the marker off the Cockroach launch channel so we pulled out to see what was going on. There was a tremendous about of bait out there. We tried dropping a lure underneath but nothing so we fired but up and ran into the backcountry.
We got to the hole on the last part of the incoming and caught quite a few short trout. They weren't very large but they were great fun to catch. We then had some lunch and a tour around the backcountry and it was back to the flat that we started the morning off to drift for some trout.
The current was strong after the tide had switched back to an outgoing and it wasn't long before we knew we were on to the right pattern. After crossing the sandbar I was rewarded with a nice 20+ inch trout and we caught a couple more shorter trout with some solid fish missed. Linden scored on a really nice flounder.
We saw a couple more rather larger trout as well. I insisted that we check out Schuster's hole again before we drifted the flat and after no fish but a stingray we went back for one last drift over the trout area. It wasn't long into the drift and on one of the final shrimp that this fish struck.
He measured 25 inches on the tape and had plenty of girth as well. When it hit I knew it was something large so I was thinking it was a nice red but as it got closer both Linden and I saw that huge mouth and knew it was a rather large trout. After some wrangling around the boat I was able to flip it onto the deck. It only took me 3+ years to catch a trout larger than the fish that Kate caught a few years ago with me but today I succeeded. After that we picked up and moved out back to the ramp to get home. Everyone got some great fish to take home as well!
Overall even though we didn't get onto any reds you can't complain about bringing home some dinner and catching a couple of really solid trout.
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