Ashley 1, Me 0

Skunked today. Tried some new spots like the flat below cosgrove, moved down to Orangegrove creek and ran all the way to the back. Worked the different branches. Nothing, didn’t even see a push.
Felt a few bites but turned out to be some very aggressive blue crabs. They chased the bait down.

Moved to some docks on the main channel. Water was soup. Couldn’t see more that a few inches.

Moved to a creek above cosgrove. Drug boat across the mud flat but made it. All that practice fishy Bushy paid off.
Tide started coming in. Saw first redfish around 3:45pm. Lead the bait and felt the thump. Hook released and came back stretched out. 6 hours of fishing and I blew it. While retying a redfish grabbed a blue crab by the claw and ripped it off.

Pretty cool to watch. Crab stayed up on the bank licking his wounds.

Saw two more reds but we’re so close they spooked.

Off the water before 5.

Side note. There were a ton of boats out there. Parked up and down the roads all over. Lines to launch, lines to recover.
Starting to like the idea of bushy staying the way it is. Keep the craziness to the other ramps.

Water was 82.5 degrees. cooler than the Cooper at 85 last week.

Yeah even the sketchy boat landings get crowded these days. I haven’t took my boat out in a few weeks because of the summer boaters. I like dockmans idea of mandatory ramps in large waterfront neighborhoods.

Our city and surrounding islands need more public boat ramps and the ramps we have need more parking. That’s all there is to it!

I had a similar outing Sunday on the Ashley. Put in around 7 and grabbed some live shrimp and mullet. Fished the remainder of the incoming. Planned to fish the outgoing but I too found the mud and took it as a sign to head back in after about 5 hours of not finding any fish. The ramp was ridiculous around noon when I went back in, as expected.

17’ Seafox 172