10/18 Afternoon fishing on the Wando

I fished the incoming tide on the Wando yesterday (10/18) with wind from the N/E. Didn’t expect much but had a good day (good for me at least): a slot red and five trout. Low tide was at 1:45pm, put in at 2:15pm and it took what seemed like an hour to catch shrimp. Mullet were all over but I couldn’t find shrimp. Maybe I was in the wrong spot? I figured shrimp would be all over the place.

I caught the red on a voodoo shrimp under a popping cork in the same place I was throwing live shrimp under a cork…definitely wasn’t expecting that. I caught three trout with live shrimp under a cork, one with a mud minnow on a carolina rig, and one using a top water plug. I got a huge top water bite on the plug but didn’t land the fish. I rarely fish top water but I’m definitely doing that more!

It was a great afternoon out on the water even with the north wind!


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I rarely fish top water but I'm definitely doing that more!

nice read. thank you.

re:topwater

you’re ruined. wait’ll you see how much time you spend throwing that zaraspook cause 1 TW bite is so much better than 10 mud minnow bites.

later, you’ll get a 25" spottail on TW. at which point you’ll spend even more time throwing it.

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you're ruined. wait'll you see how much time you spend throwing that zaraspook cause 1 TW bite is so much better than 10 mud minnow bites.

Haha I can definitely see it happening! Every time I try something new with this fishing hobby (addiction) I seem to be taking off more time from work to do it.


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Originally posted by onsalt
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you're ruined. wait'll you see how much time you spend throwing that zaraspook cause 1 TW bite is so much better than 10 mud minnow bites.

Haha I can definitely see it happening! Every time I try something new with this fishing hobby (addiction) I seem to be taking off more time from work to do it.


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Hey man, you gotta hone your craft and there’s no better way to do that than time on the water. LOL!!

For what it’s worth, I rarely, if ever, hit the water without at least one rod rigged with a topwater bait and sometimes I have two rigged with two different topwater baits.

God bless the “ignore” function.