tough day part two

Decided that the south wind would put just enough water onto a flat that I haven’t fished for a while. So I loaded up the yak and headed a few miles North on 17.

Hit the water and the tide was REALLY POURING IN!!! There was water on the flat over an hour before high tide. The wind was a little more than I hope for (Note to self: Got to get a job as a weather man… never have to be right :clown_face:)
As I poled the Ride 135 across the flat there were several times I could have reached down and scooped up reds with my net. They didn’t spook, they just sat there unless I poled up right against them… Bad news was that they wouldn’t eat either… they just sat there like it was January on a mud flat. :roll_eyes:

I got out of the grass and started worked a deep cut next to an oyster bank and picked up one flatty. It was about 15 inches, released to get a little bigger.

When the tide started dropping I moved to the grass edge to see if I could get a bite from a red coming off the flat. picked up a slottie.

Noticed the water was going away like someone pulled the drain plug on the ocean, so I bugged out.

One of my Okuma Trios locked up today after way too many trips over the past 2 years. took it apart, washed everything, soaked all the parts in WD-40 then wiped them down, oiled and reassembled… Good as new.

Didn’t even lose the itty bitty little anti reverse spring this time :smiley:

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It’s been a frustrating couple of weeks. Hopefully the reds feeding patterns will change soon.

“The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.” </font id=“size2”>
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Tommy, in other report you said you were throwing a Who Dat and curious about your presentation on that lure - recently bought a couple to try since I had rigged up something similar. Are you adding anything to it - plastic bait like curly tail grub, fesh/frozen bait, or just straight spoon?

straight spoon. i’ve thrown some other less flashy spoons and added a chartreuse curly tail

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