FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

My buddy Rusty and a good day on the water.

Rusty has been a loyal reader and off and on collaborator and after all these years of communicating back and forth we finally ended up in the boat together.  Along with sharing information we often met on the water fishing the same area.  So I was glad when he invited me to fish with him .  Knowing I am out of the salt business he was kind enough to take me today and best I can say – We had a big time.

Weather

54/81.  Some clouds in the morning will give way to mainly sunny skies for the afternoon. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.

Tides

High 3:41 am 0.5.   Low 10:29 am  0.1.

Activity Times

Major 8:00 to 10:00 am.

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We have several things in common and had a good day chatting and catching fish.  Rusty is my kind of fisherman; he is a multi-species guy.  From trout to bass to tarpon to salmon to name a few he has caught them all.  As he is widely traveled pursing fish his entire life we had much in common.  Plus he is an accomplished fly fisherman and fly tier who has shared his knowledge with me as I begin my fly-fishing journey.  Interestingly enough he has friends in our area of Colorado and visits often so we will not lose touch.

I sure will miss these guys, they stretch your string.  Redfish cannot resist a Knockin Tail.

As far as the fishing went it was consistent most of the day.  The trout bit here and there with a couple of good stretches.  While no real big ones came over the side there was no real lull in the bite.  It tended to be a couple 3 or 4 here or there.  Of course, it was Knockin Tails that did the damage.  Since this was maybe my last time on the salt I opened my last Salt Marsh corky style bait and caught several on that.

We caught around 25 trout, while most were small, I have 3 – 17″ in the smoker as I write this.

The redfish were slow but I managed to catch the one above to send me off to Colorado with the memory of just how hard they pull.  Looking back on it should have thrown a topwater some but hard to change when they are biting.  Several fell for Michael’s new bait but if I release that he would have to kill me.  Suffice to say when it is fully ready for production it will catch fish.  He is also working on other stuff coming to a store near you sometime next year.

It was a fun day and when 2 hardcore fishermen get together there is always plenty to talk about.  There is nothing wrong with being a one trick pony, but the fishing world is so vast and so amazing that those that explore it just become better fishermen.  Try to expand your fishing world if you can, the results are worth the effort.  And thanks Rusty, what a great day to be 2 old guys slinging lures.

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Today the appraiser comes and if all is good it looks like we could potentially close with perfect timing.  It has been a little bit of a struggle, but it is coming together and maybe just maybe things will go well and we will hit the road with no left-over Texas business.  The Boss has a couple of work parties with her coworkers and will be wrapping up her 40-year career in medicine in exactly 10 days and off to our mountain town we go.

We will be gone a couple of days while they kill some termites and then I hope to fish the salt maybe one more time and the lake one more time.  Then the serious packing begins.  So keep stopping in as I finish up my Texas fishing adventure.  There is so much more to come, it will just be different.  But as I said above different in the fishing game is the spice of life.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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