Saw a big school of over slot fish yesterday…pushing 100 fish. We threw our baits in and hooked up, but my real question is this: Does this storm have these fish schooled up like this? Seems like this time of year the schools that I find are much smaller. I don’t see big schools like what we saw yesterday except in the winter time. Interested to know your thoughts on the matter.
Besides that, caught some ladys busting up some bait pretty good on some spoons. I don’t care if they are a trashfish, I still like watching them swat at a lure and miss it five times before they finally eat it. Sat at the jetties for a while drowning big baits and not many takers besides some sharks and a big ray.
Good day on the water, home by lunchtime. Saw Fritzy and he didn’t even flip me off this time.
Fish were active yesterday.
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My version:
Hit the water at 6:00am with 23 Sailfish and Capt Tang and headed towards sea. Started out in hopes of jumping a tarpon. No such luck sat there for an hour and caught an 8lb stingray. Got tired of getting beat by the surf on the ocean side of the rocks so we headed in in search of some menhaden for bait. Found a thousands of finger mullet but no menhaden. So we netted up a few mullet and headed across the harbor to another location know to hold bait.
While in search of menhaden behind an island we happened upon a huge school of redfish. Odd. We steadily approached the school to make a stealthy cast to them when we saw why they were piled up on the narrow flat behind the barrier island: it apperaed there was a pod of dolphins pushing, no herding, the reds up into the shallows in hopes of a feast of fish. We thought the dolphins would have the redfish too nervous and preoccupied with not getting eaten that they would not feed themselves. We were somewhat right, the school kept running around us so fast we could not hardly keep a hook in front of them. After a few attempts at approaching the flat from deeper water, I was finally able to put a finger mullet in front of a hungry red. After a good 3 minute drag rippin’ fight I got the 27" redfish to the boat. Got the hook out, snapped a quick picture, and put the fish back to the drink. Held on to her tail for half a minute to make sure he was revived before I set him loose to the hungry pod of dolphins then he bolted off back to shallow water. We backed back out to try to get back on the school when to our amazement some inconsiderate kayaker and his mutt paddle right through the middle of the school to have a sit in the water. WTH? We had been working this bank back and forth for 15 minutes will this idiot watched from the other side of the ICW. Then he gets the bright idea to take a dip in the peepee warm water 100 yards from us. His response: “Oh were you fishing here? Am I in your way? I can move if you need me to.” Needless to
very nice.
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Definitely not a bad way to spend the day!
Nice report. Love the considerate kayaker. The ladyfish have been thick in the surf around Sullivan’s last few weeks and they have been big fish too.