can’t give any location info because it’s my buddie’s spot, but it was a beautiful day yesterday, and a successful one too!
started catching bait about 12pm, low tide was to be about 1:45pm, tons of shrimp everywhere, we had caught probably 1/3 cooler of shrimp after the 1st 10 casts, we were only keeping the bigger ones, & actually seeking finger mullet which were much harder to find…after about 2 dozen nice shrimp & a dozen finger mullet, it was time to wet some lines.
we pulled up to the secret dock at slack low tide, tossed a few live mullet on the bottom & with in minutes my buddy caught a nice little red, measured 13" if memory serves:
nothing for a 1/2 hour or more, so i convinced my buddy to leave his honey hole, promising we’d come back shortly after the tide started moving back in. we relocated one bend up the creek to a feeder creek mouth by a dock, here we kept seeing & hearing fish break water, but it wasn’t jumping mullet. after a few minutes, the mystery was solved, it was garfish:
caught 3 garfish total, caught the same 1 twice actually, here’s the 2nd one landed:
my buddy has caught huge reds here, so we didn’t let the garfish deter us, convinced that there had to be some nice reds also hitting that top water, we persisted. & finally, a 28" red:
the bite slowed & we’re almost out of bait so we head back to the super secret dock we started @, and bam, right away 1st cast under the dock, a nice red hooks up, my buddy had him out of the pilings for a moment, but he lost that battle to a piling, he swears the one that got away was dinner, even declaring it to be a 19" fish… we stayed for about 1 hour more and the tide had really come in, about 1/2 way up, no luck with popping corks, but the reds & garfish didn’t seem to care whether
