I took one of my best friends fishing today. We hit up the same spot I fished yesterday. We hit the water as the sun came up and fished the high through low.
We started out with him using a chatterbait and me throwing a jitterbug. We also dragged a cork and Carolina rig with mud minnows on each. We saw a few fish around and the chatterbait got hit a few times.
As the water dropped we started seeing tons of mullet around and caught about three dozen with the cast net. We swapped to mullet instead of mud minnows from that point on. We tried them on a bunch of different rigs, but the only they wanted it was on a jighead. I tried poling, and it worked for a little while, but once the wind picked up it was impossible. We had to move with the trolling motor and stop with the anchor. I was really wishing I had a power pole or stake out anchor today! I could tell that every time we got on top of them, the trolling motor was spooking them.
At the beginning of the day I was informed that my friend had never caught a redfish, so I was determined to help him get one. After a lot of hard work by both of us it was mission accomplished!
We chased them upstream until we got to the edge of “kayak territory” and called it a day. I can’t wait to go back there on a calm day. It should be good stuff!
Water temperature this morning in the main river was 58 degrees. Water temperature way up in the creek was 68 degrees! That’s why all that bait and the fish that want to eat them are in there!
The water was a little cloudy today, but we could see pretty well, especially on the