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reallifetexan · Pony Mullet Joined: 08 Jun 2013 Posts: 79

We don't live down here, so whenever my family makes it down, my boys and I are out every day trying to catch them. We caught keepers at Easter, but haven't caught any since then despite making 3 trips. I came down alone earlier this week because my boys had to fulfill some obligations, and went out Wed. morning (8/13) to a spot that hasn't been very productive for me in the past, but with the tide being so low, I was looking for somewhere that was shallow, had grass, and was near deeper water. I showed up that morning to a shoreline full of mullet, and blow-ups all around me. It was breathtaking. I heard a couple of blowups along the shoreline that sounded like whales breaching the water - must have been some big reds.

I think I could have thrown out an old shoe and gotten a bite. Needless to say, I got my limit of 3 reds relatively quickly, and right before the bite stopped. Around 9am or so, the mullet were still there, but the reds were gone. I came back the next morning to the exact same environmental conditions (wind speed and direction, temp, water depth and temp, etc.), and once again there were mullet everywhere, and not a blow-up to be heard. All I caught was a 14" trout. Just gotta be in the right place at the right time.

20.5, 24, and 24.5 inchers

One more story - Friday morning I went out looking for them and decided to try another new spot, I sat there a while in very skinny water not getting a bite and just surveying the landscape. I was fishing along a shoreline, and right on the other side of where my line was sitting along that shoreline was an interior shallow water pool, about the size of 2 large Olympic pools. There was a clump of oyster shells right in the middle of it that caught my eye, so as I was staring at those, the oyster shells suddenly started to move. Last time I checked, oyster shells don't move on their own, so I squinted a little harder and realized that it was really the back of a redfish that I was looking at, slowly moving in about 6 inches of water. It was hunting mullet in there, and would occasionally blow up a school of them and then go back to slowly moving around the pool. The tag line of someone on this board came to mind - "Sometimes you just have to get out of the boat," so out I went and started stalking this thing. I spooked it once and it went jetting across this pond, so I had to walk through the muck to the other side to be able to cast to it again. The next time I was able to cast in front of it as it was moving forward, and I slowly reeled in to intersect it and then froze. Sure enough, that curved back swam right to it, stopped, submerged for a few seconds, and then I felt a <tap> on my line. The back reappeared, and it started slowly swimming away, but this time my line started tightening, so I set the hook and it was on. It was cool to watch it fight in such skinny water - you can really make out all its moves. I was able to drag it onto shore with me and carry it back to the boat, it taped out at 20.5 inches, and was delicious grilled on the half-shell. It took me a while, and at one point I buried my right leg up to my knee in soft mud, but I eventually got it. Pretty satisfying.

Back at it tomorrow morning with my boys now that they're down here as well. It's been a wonderful week, whether I'm catching or not.

Jetty Bandit · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:13 pm Post subject:

Nice reds and sweet story... It's amazing what you notice when you actually take the time to look!
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RnShark · Finger Mullet Joined: 09 Oct 2013 Posts: 42

Thanks for the report dude, how fun! I can almost hear your heart pounding as I was reading how you stalked that fish. There are very few feelings better than that... Go get em tomorrow!

Baffinboy · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:24 pm Post subject:

Well written sir
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manuel9622 · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:05 pm Post subject:

Awesome read! Felt like I was there and wish I could be. I'm like you whether I'm catching fish or not I take it all in and live in the moment because I know I will have to return home wishing I was back in the shallow water that I love so much.
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shallowsport · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:25 am Post subject:

Timing and a good eye. That's a good combination when fishing.
Nice catch.

ironmanstan · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:16 am Post subject:

very nice.
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lifeaquatic · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:52 am Post subject:

Congrats on the sight casting. It's addictive and can drive men to extremes Very Happy

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Chef Lefty · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:35 pm Post subject:

Great report, great catch.
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Blast-n-Cast · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1142

Good work. You put in the time and it payed off