I wanted to call this the Zen fishing report; or “Give me one of everything”; that’s kind of how last Waturday went for most of the trip.
I hit the water 45 minutes before sunrise and had the first fish in the boat on the second cast. A nice little 13 3/4 inch flounder… sadly a tad shy of the mark for scoring Kayak Wars points… He ate a ZMan scented shrimp under a popping cork. Caught in 2 feet of water on the edge of a drop off.
About 5 minutes later I’m slowly moseying upstream when I see a huge back sticking out of the water beside an oyster bar. The fish is working shrimp and mud minnows in the shallows, so I flipped a ZMan shrimp on a trigger hook his way, but about 4 feet in front of his position. Waited a couple of seconds for him to get within 2 feet of the bait, gave it 4 quick pops and he was on it like white on rice.
24 inch red took me for a ride in skinny water.
I kept heading upstream and saw shrimp busting all over a point in front of a creek mouth, so I flipped the shrimp on trigger again. WHAM instant hit but no hook up, twitch - wham, twitch - wham, twitch wham. About the 8th or 9th hit resulted in a hookup with a pound or so pinfish.
A little later a sand trout, then a speck, then a bluefish, then a stingray, then a lizardfish… get the theme here - 1 of everything.
It wasn’t until the water got up and the fish were movign into the grass that I got my second of the same specie with a couple more sand trout coming to hand, then on to a school of specks in the 14 inch range and a couple of smaller reds.
Caught 8 species, nly score 10 points for Kayak Wars, wind was a biotch from the word go.
Water temp 81, visibility 3 to 4 feet, most popular bait and color - scented shrimp in natural
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