Fishing with Greg, finally

Greg and I got out this morning at CRB to chase some August inshore fish.  We started working top water but the sun quickly came up as we had gotten a little later start due to a wreck on the way in and the wait for the shrimp truck. 

We made our way to one of my high water summer mangrove holes and though the bite was kinda slow at times we were able to catch some fish.  We started off with some mangrove snapper.  I bet we caught 10 mangroves this morning with a couple being really nice.  They were all released for someone else though.  Greg was quick off with a couple of trash can slam members and ended up needing a catfish and ladyfish to complete but he got the ray and pinfish checked off pretty quickly.  After what seemed like quite a while we finally started getting into some real fish. 

One nice overslot red can change your day.  It put up a great fight and was just a little larger than 28 inches.  That was the only solid fish until this snook showed up. 

It slammed a shrimp under the mangroves and actually jumped inside the mangroves but managed to keep itself out of the roots just enough for me to feather the reel and pull it back underneath the limbs into open water.   I didn't measure since I wanted to get it back in the water but it will probably be a keeper in a few weeks when the season opens back up.

We fished that hole a little more then moved down to a cut since the water was up higher later in the morning and caught a couple more smaller reds and on one of the last shrimp my cork disappeared with this underneath it.  Redfish tacos are on the menu tonight!