Sunday, February 16, 2014

Mid-Feb. Fishing with John

Took off with John on this morning on a much needed fishing after spending some time on the road at meetings lately.  We launched at EG Simmons and headed South towards CRB to find some redfish.  There was a light chop on the way south so it was a quick run and I was on the poling platform pretty quickly looking for fish.  It took a little while to find some fish but John got us on the board with a great 25+ inch red that I happened to see out in the hole.


By then we both thought we were in the right zone.  We pushed along that same depth and saw some flashes and more fish and John was slammed by another nice red.


We set up on that hole and it wasn't long before John found another fish that we were able to get a great release video of.





Well a local dolphin had the same idea we did and came through not to long after that fish and after scattering all the reds (they were flying around underneath the boat) we decided to move around and head North to grab lunch and fish Schuster's Hole.

We get back to another flat and start looking for fish but it looked like the tide had already moved in quite a bit so we decided that it was time to head to the mangroves for a little higher water fishing.  We took quite a while to get on the board there and finally I broke the ice with a nice solid red from the front of the hole.  It was a slow bite like the last time I was there and we managed one more fish and a couple of misses as well.



We spent the remainder of the tide at that hole and then got up and out and back to the launch to clean some fish and get home.  We pulled in a total of 5 fish but with the cooler waters and the recent cold front we considered this a success and will be having some fresh fish for dinner.