Fish Catching Travel
I hate to start out complaining but I am really sick of this heat. We are in the middle of the summer heat, and my fishing results clearly reflect that. Maybe the heat has gone to my head, or at least I am letting it get to me. But whatever, my saltwater results have been less than stellar. Of course the most obvious reason is I do not fish live bait. It is just not my thing.
Friday was a POC day as I get ready for a tourney that I may or may not fish this weekend. My main goal was to see what kind of redfish string I could catch. You can weigh in one for big fish and 2 for a stinger weight. So I hit some of the usual places, and some not so usual, and the results were less than I would have hoped.
Of course the Redfish Magic spinnerbait was the choice for the day as it is my go to bait for reds most of the year. First it was a small trout, then a couple of rat reds, and finally this guy after over an hour.
A nice 25″ red. Cool to see him eat it.
The tide was low, and it stayed that way. With the wind blowing pretty good out of the south the water was off colored in lots of places, and it seemed that there was never a real good tide movement the whole time I fished.
I ended up putting 7 reds in the boat, but only one other measured, and he just made it. Topwater accounted for nothing and I did not have a bite on a Waker. I wish I could tell you some real useful information, but there was no rhyme or reason to what I caught, or where. With the wind blowing like it was neither of those baits is the best choice, and the results bore that out. Not to promising for the tourney, but I still have a couple of days to pre-fish.
Around 2 I decided to do some trout fishing, my lovely wife wanted a few for supper, so I drifted the bay, and fished some deeper channels. Over a couple of hours I think I caught about 8, but they were small. 2 were the size that cooler shrinkage might have been an issue. As I have said before, it either makes it or it doesn’t, there is no “close”. So with a heat index of over 110 I called it a day.
Popping cork accounted for most, but I did catch a couple on plastics. For some reason I have lost them and just have not been able to get back on track. So the next couple of times I get out I will work on that some. Might just need to be a little change in my mindset.
So for the day it was only 2 keeper reds, and one of those was a 20″, the other a 25″. That will not cut it next weekend. With my results lately I am not feeling this tournament thing. Hopefully a little better day or two will help me get in the groove. So Monday morning I will be out there chasing them again. I figure I will fish 3 days this week in preparation, and there is nothing like getting serious about things to change your luck. So it is time to man up.
So keep stopping in, it should be a good week. Thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
