Early '14 Fishing

Fished the other weekend with Greg on the South Shore to try to find some low water reds and trout.  Well we started the morning off very slow with little to no action.  We just couldn't find any bites early though we did find a couple fish moving in and around the potholes on the falling tide.  We were throwing artificials and maybe it was just a little cool so we pulled some of our shrimp out of the bait well and Greg quickly missed a red over the sand and then was rewarded with a very nice 23 inch trout. 

Above is the reason we fish during the winter.  You just don't have many shots at fish this size during other times of the year esp. when you are more or less sight fishing.  Well we started seeing some fish but the tide was going to slack so we motored down South to try to catch up with the rising tide.  Well we went further south than I've ever been and we just didn't find the zones that were holding any fish.  So after searching for a little while and grabbing lunch we got back to the spot that we were fishing earlier in the morning and started working pot holes until the tide got right to go to Schuster's Hole.  Well it wasn't very long until we got into some fish.

We started catching them on back to back casts and they seemed to be swimming under the boat to get into the hole.  Like usual the fish seemed to be content laying off the mangroves as the hole extends 20 yards or so off the mangroves.  If you got a good presentation in there you'd usually get a strike and the next couple of videos show that.  We also had a nice double as Greg was getting a bite and said as much then I hooked up and as my fish was moving over his bait he got bit.  Pretty cool. 

From there we ran out of shrimp and the day was winding down so we headed back to the launch to get loaded up and get back to the house.  The days bounty is below.