Great day on Wando with 36" red

Saltwater Inshore Reports
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Took the morning off from work to fish with my son (on his day off). The skies were a little scary and the radar app showed some nasty stuff heading our way.

We decided that a little rain wouldn’t hurt us and off we went to Guerin creek where we found mullet by the thousands. We quickly filled the bait well and started to systematically hit a few old and new spots.

We certainly were not equally successful at every single spot… in fact in some of the most productive spots in recent outings we did very poorly this time…

HOWEVER… other spots produced some very nice fish. Specifically the big trout seemed to be very hungry today

BUT… the fish of the day was without a doubt the 36" redfish that was caught literally as I was reeling in the last line before heading back to the hill. The fish hit like a freight train and for a split second we were afraid that it would run into the docks. I would not have been able to stop him …

I was quickly running out of line in the first few minutes of the fight (Shimano Symetre with 3/4 spool of 20# braided), as the fish constantly would pull off way more line than I could retrieve. It was a good back and forth in the minutes that followed. “Excellent” team work with my son (who maneuvered the boat with the iPilot making sure that we kept well positioned) resulted after a very good and exciting fight, in the surrender of this 36" beast

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Great report and a nice red! Can’t wait for the trout bite to heat up.

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3

Nice fish reel, thanks for the report.

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4

Excellent day Dutch!

j

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5

Thanks for that nice report.

Love to hear, “Let’s go fishing, Grandbuddy”!

6

Good report Reeldutch. Maybe some of those large Trout from Florida are making their way here. I can’t wait for the large Snook. Tight lines.

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We have been pretty successful lately catching the bigger trout using mullet. We prefer to fish artificial only, but it is hard to beat mullet if you want to catch the big ones. When the temp goes down we will switch back to arti-only

Maybe, just once, someone will call me “sir” without adding, “you’re making a scene.”
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2010 21’ Seahunt Luckydutch II (sold)
2014 21’ Robalo Cayman R206 Luckydutch III

8

good supportive hug on that red. next time be sure to take your shirt off and soak it in the water first

9

Really nice fish!

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10

Good catching and nice report, thanks

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Very Nice!!