Spent T-Day on the water chasing those snaggle tooth, yellow mouthed, silver fish. Found 'em in a couple of bays over some oyster beds. As usual, I was tight lining plastics, but the water was so shallow, I was losing a bunch of jigs in the oyster shells. I caught enough fish to know they were there, so I went to plastic under a popping cork. Didn’t get hung up nearly as much. I figured that when tight lining, I was dragging the bait through the shells, but when I put it under a cork, the jig was jumping up…and I could keep it in the strike zone a little longer. Had a couple of buddies from Georgia come with me. In 3 1/2 days, we caught over 150 trout. Could’ve sunk the boat with sheepshead and spade fish. We truly could have caught as many sheepshead and spades as we wanted. Caught them on dead shrimp.
You’re very perceptive. I was in Cajun country, but I was fishing the exact type cover I was fishing a couple of weeks ago out of McClellanville…oyster beds around grass, and with the same baits. Trout are trout, and their feeding habits are very similar.
A friend of mine and I fished out of McClellanville, three days fairly recently. We caught over 60 trout each day. We probably kept a total of 20 over the three days. We threw back a LOT over 14 inches. All were caught tight lining plastic around oyster beds and grass. I would have been fishing there this past week, but my buddy is recovering from rotator cuff surgery and is out of commission for another few weeks. I look forward to getting back there as soon as he’s well enough to cast.
