I decided that I needed to get out and try to make up for my horrible showing at the IFA in Savannah this past weekend. I launched this morning sometime close to 630 and started out throwing topwater. To be honest I was not expecting much of anything on topwater but much to my delight the fish were hungry. I managed to pick up two trout (19.5" and 13") and two reds ( 29.5" and 25"). I had several other short strikes and two reds that came off. After that I decided to cover some serious water to check out an area I had never fished before.
I found plenty of reds hanging out off of the oyster bars, up against the grass, and back in the little creeks. They wanted nothing to do with anything I threw at them. I even had two a charge my bait, side swipe it, and go right back to where they were before like nothing had happened. I got some bait to see if that would work. Nothing on muds or mullet! At this point I decided to take a break and grab some lunch.
After getting back out I quickly picked up a couple of 13.75" flounder and a hard fighting 25" red. However, that was about the extent of my luck. About an hour before sunset I found quite a few reds in the shallows busting on bait. I hooked up with one that broke me off on some oysters. Then I had 5 or 6 that charged it, smacked it, and swam off. I just could not figure out what they wanted today. I switched back to topwater on the way in and picked up two more trout (15"-16"). Not a bad day but I saw way more fish than I caught today.
“The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.” </font id=“size2”>
“Go Big or Go Home!” </font id=“size2”>
As for the distance, it was close to three mile from where I was fishing. I covered atleast 12 miles today, probaly more.
