Fishing with Greg and Mr. Dean at CRB

After celebrating the big Dawg win last night over LSU, we continued it right out into the mangroves and flats at CRB this morning.  Tides were a little slow as we are coming off the neap tides so there was just enough moving water this morning to go out and try the morning incoming.  The water was pretty tea-colored after all the recent rains so along with the slower tides, the water clarity didn't give me much confidence but all of that would be forgotten after a little time on the water.  We got a really early start to a beautiful crisp (<75 deg) morning and were to the first stop before the sun was up. 

It didn't take very long to Mr. Dean to get on a fish, well a nice ray.  So, needless to say we were quickly back at it to find a game fish.  Well, it didn't take long to find the first of many snook on the morning.  Mr. Dean started it off for us and was 1/3 of the way on to his slam with the hardest fish first.  We spent the next hour catching and releasing a few small reds and bunch of smaller snook and a couple of mangrove snappers.  We pulled up the powerpole and headed to the cut down the way to look for some fish sitting in the slow morning current.  We got a bite right off and ended up with a couple more fish for the boat including this smaller red and snook.  

The tide wasn't moving very well but there were still fish around they were active so we ended up with a couple of reds and a couple more snook.

From there we headed outside to fish some out front mangroves for snook and reds and we weren't disappointed at that stop either.  Greg knocked out 2/3 of his slam as well with a quick release of his snook and a smaller red.

We still had some monster shrimp left so with the north wind we putted out to the flat to find a trout or two.  Well we accomplished that after we found a little bit cleaner water and Mr. Dean got the boat slam and his personal slam pretty quickly.  Greg followed pretty quickly with his slam as well and if it wasn't more me breaking him off he would have had a nice keeper red for the boat as well.  I had my trout on one of the very last shrimp and it was a pretty good fish but it came off right at the boat  but I was ok with that.  We had caught 20 or so fish with quite a few species and a couple of inshore slams.  Plus the weather and water was great and along with the fellowship and stories it was a perfect way to celebrate a big Dawg win yesterday.  I can't wait to get back out there and continue this great end of summer/early fall fishing.