spent some lunchtime fishing a walk-to spot monday and tuesday. it was all midday and hot, live creek shrimp and small finger mullet 1.5-3’ under a float.
trout have been fair numbers and mainly big since april, and flounder have been quality this year, but i haven’t seen a redfish at this spot since maybe march… really strange. bluefish are cutting right through all the bait when they find it, there are a few ladyfish and bonnetheads around, but those have all been on other trips- zero bycatch the last 2 days.
monday was 2 released flounder, 2 kept flounder (1 with weird looking wound on its gill plate, to be taken to the resident parasitologist), 1 kept trout.
tuesday was 4 kept flounder, 2 released flounder, 2 released trout.
all fish below are 16.5-19", some will be crispy fried and topped with crab cakes very shortly.
Good report, BW. Do you remember the tidal stage while you were fishing?
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Dang, you really know how to hurt a guy. Nice fish!
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Nice group of fish! But?.fishing at lunch on Monday and Tues and there’s a can of bush light next to the fish??!! what kind of job do you have???
Thanks for the report. Got me wanting to do some inshore catching, I mean fishing.
Good report, when are you coming gigging with me?
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I’m jealous. Looks like the wade was worth it!
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Nice fish.Thats what I been wanting to target
torrey’s back!!
23, you name the time and i’ll bring the blue cans…
BB, it was last 2 hours of ebb and 1st hour of flood, but almost all the action was before slack low. many of the trout were after the slack as water cleared. i think the last of the dropping tide works best for me targeting flounder on hook and line because they concentrate themselves on points and at the edges of eddies where it’s pretty easy to present baits to them as ambush predators.
i fed 2 of those fish multiple baits after the first time i saw them. one on FMs and one on shrimp, each ate 3 of them while i tried to hook them. one i pulled up into the rocks i was standing on, and i watched her settle to the bottom in less than a foot of water under my rod tip. fed her 2 more shrimp and got a hook on the last one. would’ve been a lot easier to just stab the thing once i knew where it was! point being, they are very aggressive, predictable, and don’t mind being really shallow- if you miss one, put a fresh bait right where it was and you typically won’t have time to close the bail again…
Very Nice (in my borat accent)
nice flatties! boy I love flounders