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chuck · Last edited by chuck on Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:45 am; edited 2 times in total

Hit the water 9ish

Not too many people out today

The weather was pretty nice till about 11 and the wind picked up, but so did the bite. It was dead from 9 to 11. I covered alot of water.

The first catch of the day 21" red.

On the same drift I found 4 rat reds, and 2 dink trout. It was nice to finally be catching something.

Started back to truck and saw two drum, casted and got a 26" blk drum

And that was pretty much it for the day, tried more but nothing.
They were scattered but the ones i could find were hungry and hit it hard.

A pic of a portable cleaning table i got for x-mas

5moreminutes · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject:

thats very good you found not 1 but 2 fish...wtg
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snakecan2 · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:08 pm Post subject:

persistence pays off..
that is a nice cleaning table..
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BigJ · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:15 pm Post subject:

Nice fish mane...what were you using for bait...??

chuck · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:22 pm Post subject:

i cheated and busted out the big guns

dead stinky shrimp!!!!

ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

first picture of fish I have seen in weeks. Very nice fish, and even better cleaning table. I totally need one of those. Thanks for the report, looked nice out there, love the pic of the red still in the water!
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rabbit · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:12 am Post subject:

Way to go chuck. Glad you were able to get some fish. Very Happy

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frayed · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:45 am Post subject:

Very nice. I'm with torna. . . not a lot of meat hauls of late and nice to see someone box a few nice ones.
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ovaforty · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:16 am Post subject:

I waded the Marina channel all the way out to the big channel that parallels the shoreline from the bridge to the power lines. The low winter tides make it possible for now. It was dead calm. Too calm. There was barely a current moving toward the NAS.
I was using a 5 inch swim bait with a shank weighted hook rigged weedless. No bait showing. The afternoon before I had seen about 30 pelicans diving and feeding there.
On the way out I fished the channel edges looking for flounder. The water was below waist deep and clear where I was standing next to deeper water. I saw a nice keeper sized flounder follow my lure up from channel so I stopped my lure. The flounder came up to it and looked like it was sniffing it. I wiggled it ever so gently in front of the flounder's nose. NADA. So i reeled it in and cast behind it a ways and swam the bait over the flounder, and she inhaled it on a reaction strike, immediately spitting it out, then fled back to the safety of the channel.
The same exact thing happened with a 12 inch flounder a few minutes later. I changed over to gulp shrimp on a 1/16 jighead after that.
Finally I got a keeper speck on the gulp, and that was the only other bite I got.
I am thinking it was too calm and maybe a bit slack of current at that time. I think the bite up picked when the wind came around in the afternoon.

JayandCoyote · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:02 am Post subject:

Thanks for the report. I almost forgot what a red looked like!

IslandMike · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:12 pm Post subject:

Nice fish Chuck.

stevarama · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject:

Chuck,

Did you happen to see anyone else on the water freezing their a$$ off by chance. I think I saw you out there. I was out there behind the church and managed a few small uglies. They were probably right at the 14" mark each but let them go so that they could turn into the BIG uglies. Stayed out there til 10:15 and took off. Caught the drum with peeled shrimp also. Til next time.

chuck · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject:

were you wading?

that was me who kept forgetting stuff, and going back to the car, i wasn't totally awake yet

when i got past the first hole and on the flats by the duck blind i got out and waded and downed my 44oz coke to wake up.... gotta love wading drinking a coke and looking for tails

stevarama · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject:

haha! Yeah I was wondering what was taking you so long to finally launch Laughing

Glad to see at least one of us caught a few fish. Looked like it was a long wade past that duck blind. I would've stayed longer but when I bought my wading boots, I got them in the summer without waders. Needless to say, they were a little tight on my feet when I put them on over the waders. My feet just couldn't handle the pressure anymore so I had to bolt. Maybe one of these days we'll hook up and head out there again. (Not any of these upcoming days though)