We ran into our first hole on the incoming tide and got set up. It took a few minutes before we got a bite because I couldn't make the perfect cast up in the mangroves but finally we started getting some good casts in there and we were rewarded with 3 smaller snook around 20 inches or so.
The current slowed and so did the bite so we decided to go drift some flats on the last part of the tide and target some trout and bluefish that Doc had gotten into a trip before. We get to the grass flats and I think it was the first cast we started the drift off with this.
A nice solid 20 inch trout for the cooler. We were targeting the potholes but this fish came from the open grass away from the pothole. We ended up catching 4 or 5 more on that drift and as we got farther into the drift the bite slowed so we circled back around for another pass. It wasn't long before we had a couple more nice trout. Dr. Schuster was free lining whitebait while I chose the traditional popping cork rig and both seemed to be producing. The fish also seemed to be over the grass and broken water instead of being in the potholes which was a little unusual but it didn't take very long for us to figure it out.
We even had a couple of doubles and caught quite a few fish over 18+ inches with the longest being right around 20 inches. The last fish of the day for myself was a nice solid trout that was released for next time.
Dr. Schuster dropped me back off at the launch and he headed back out for lunch and to set up on the broken water. He told me after the trip that on the last bait he caught a smaller trout and was bringing it in when a much larger fish ate the trout and took off across the flat. He had to clamp down on the spool to keep the line on the reel and he said the fish (shark) cut through his leader. Overall, we both caught quite a few fish and had some good fish to take home for dinner.
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