So I head out yesterday to fish the last of the falling tide and the turn. When I do this I know that I’m going to be stuck in an area of about two acres of water surrounded by dry flats. Its a honey hole that I almost always can catch a few trout and an occasional red. I barely make it on the falling tide and quickly find myself in a pool of water about two acres in size surrounded by 3 ft of mud and shells. The tide is moving so slowly and extraordinarily low that little did I know I was going to be there for a good while longer than usual.
Fortunately I was prepared with proper sun protection and fluids. As I set up to fish, I noticed some huge explosions of bait which were extremely balled up in my little oasis. Sure enough, I started to see that silver orange flash of color on those explosions! I cast out a plastic minnow on a jig head and no bites. Then moved to a gold spoon and nada. Switched over to the old faithful trout trick(one of the new ones in a mullet color)on a red eye jig head made by Optiker/Phillips and company and slam! Game on. Proceeded to catch maybe ten nice reds and a few slobs over 35 inches. One nice trout and the day was over and back to the dock.
Reds are more silver than red and take a bit longer to revive with the hot water.
Here’s one that barely fit in the net.
