Jan '14 Fishing with Doc

Went out last weekend on some low water on the South Shore to find some cold water fish.  We ran out of Cockroach Bay into a chilly morning air and headed north to pick up the last bit of the falling tide.  We worked our way around some pot holes and the sandbar looking for some fish to site cast to.  Well the water was a little cool and the fish weren't really cooperating until Dr. Schuster picked up a small flounder in a deeper cut along a pothole and we started seeing a little more life on the flat.  Next thing we know we feel the water sucking out into the bay like one of those movies about tidal waves.  Well there was large container ship out in the bay and apparently when their wake comes by that flat on a low tide in creates waves that you can surf on.  We floated over those waves and that pretty slowed everything down as the water was all turned up so after missing a couple of trout and getting to a group of ladyfish we pulled up and headed south to another flat.

Not long on that flat with the new incoming we started seeing some fish including some trout and bigger reds.  I scored sightcasting to a smaller red which was pretty cool but we didn't really find much more there other than maybe to much water.  I'll have to take note of that in my tide notes.

We grabbed a lunch and headed back north to the flat that we started the morning on and didn't really find any fish in the zones around the sandbar so we moved 30-50' inside of those sand holes and the trout just started appearing but unfortunately we weren't able to catch any of them as our gear wasn't really set up for that.  They were holding in 2 ft of water over broken bottom and our rigs were getting to much grass on them so we decided to make our way to Schuster's hole.  Well as the story of the day, it was pretty slow in there as well.

We managed to find a handful of fish with Doc getting on the board with the first keeper red of the day and a little while longer I followed up with another keeper with a lot of spots.

We had a couple of missed strikes that were just me forgetting that the bite was slow and every time we would get a bite we would think that it was going to just turn on but it wasn't meant to be.  We ended up the tide and the day with one final solid fish. 

Well though the fishing was a little slow behind these cold fronts the day we were out was light winds and it probably got into the mid 70s which you can't beat during Jan!