That's ok, just means I had to switch up the game plan. I started wading around in knee deep water casting to the potholes and mullet schools with a 6" watermelon red fleck bass worm. It wasn't long before I picked up a trout, odd I thought in this shallow of water, but then I caught another, and another, and another. Not just any ordinary trout, the average size was around 22" with several at 25"! Then I finally hook something with some shoulders and starts burning drag I'm thinking, finally a red, when a HUGE yellow mouth errupts out of the water shaking violently. I get the fish to me and put the boga on it, since I didn't have a measuring board I wanted to be sure of it's length so I held it up to my rod as a reference to measure when I got home. I also keep a net in my front hatch in case I ever need it, so I layed the trout in the net and held the net up with my boga and weighed it in at 8lbs! I was psyched, definitely my biggest trout of all time.
Still excited about my trout I continued wading the flat. The tide turned and started coming in and finally I started seeing signs of redfish. I picked up one red that was about 27" on the 6" worm and thought I was going to lay into them after that... not. From then one out I spent most of my time looking at reds laying in potholes and trying my hardest to get them to eat. So I switched baits and put on a Gulp new penny jerkshad and started working the potholes. 10 minutes later I see a slob of a red laying in a pothole up ahead of me. I cast well beyond the pothole and start working it back a couple feet infront of the red. He turns and starts following it slowly, about 10 feet from me I drop the jerkshad over a pothole, twitch it once and let it sit... he eyed it for a second and slurped it rightup, fish on!!
My stradic 2500 started screaming and I knew it was a big fish. After a couple minutes of playing the fish carefully I finally got the boga on her. What a pig!! I weighed her in the net at 15 lbs!! I layed her up against my rod so I could check the length later.
After that I picked up a few more big fat trout and decided to call it around 11:30. I got home and measured my rod where I had marked the fish off and the trout went 28" and the red 35"! Awesome! My biggest red and trout to date, all in the same day!
Sorry no pics, my dad went offshore today with some friends and left before I had gotten up, taking my camera with him!
