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Im Headed South

Hit the St. Charles ramp at 7 am. only to have motor problems again. Another dead coil that makes the third different one in the last two months. Was able to track down another one from a friend of a friend right there in Lamar so we were back in business by 8:30. Ran to St. Joe looking for bait but we didn't find a lot, we waded one area picking up some rat reds in knee deep water. I was fishing way up shallow and caught two nice flounder (18" & 20") in about a foot of water on a pink devil tail and managed to snag a very large stingray that luckily came loose before I had to let him have my jig. Wind was really pumping out of the south so we ran into Carlos and fished some shell picking up a hand full of trout up to 20" and one 21" red. Then the front hit and the wind tore everything up around there. We tried a couple of spots that were protected but found nada. We decided to run back into St. Charles to get a little closer to home. We ran straight into the wind and got beat to death but found some decent looking water and waded a area of hard sand with some grass mixed in. My wife really put it on us right off the bat chunking her old trusty popping cork with shrimp. First cast was a 22" red. About 6 or 8 cast later she has a better fish on I figure its a good red but when she gets it close she gets very excited saying its a big trout. I tell her to take her time and to wear it out and after spinning around a dozen times she slips the gripper on her lip and she has her new personal best trout. She just about shorts out when she picks her up out of the water, by then I'm getting there with the camera and I ask her what she's going to do with her. She says that she wants to get some pictures and then turn her loose. It was a pretty surreal moment knowing my wife was raised in a family that never throws anything back. We take some pics and I weigh her on my boga and she grabs her by the tail and works her for a little bit and turns her loose and she just glides off into the grass and my wife stands up to wipe away a tear and just says "amazing". So her new personal best is just a tad over 26" and weighed 7 pounds. Just to rub it in all of our faces two cast later she catches a 26" red. By then she was out of shrimp and we weren't catching anything on arties so we called it a day. You should have seen the looks on her relatives faces when she told them the story and how she turned it loose, she kept telling them "you just don't get it". I don't want this to turn into a thread about catch and release where someone gets bent out of shape because its their right to keep what they catch as long as they don't break a law. We are lucky enough to be able to fish quite a bit and would just rather eat 5 - 17" trout instead of one big one that's all.
Sunday stuck my head out the door to see the wind still blowing and went back to bed to rest my aches and pains from the boat ride the day before. Only 11 more months till my new boat fund is fully funded then it off to Chris's for a H.O. ..I hope.

Mike

ladyfish · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:51 am Post subject:

Great post, A family that fishes together stays together

kingtender · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 436

nice one. congrats

freshfish · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:10 am Post subject:

Whats that cable looking thingy.....
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ccbobber · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: great day

a great day in spite of the weather. congrats.
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Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

that is a great fish there! Thanks for the report! Cool

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MJW · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:54 am Post subject:

awesome thanks for te report
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bigdog · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

way to stick with the program and grind it out. I really like the part about hunting up another coil. super looking spec! what is that wire thingy?

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I believe the wiry thing is a custom cable stringer. Dr. Mckee made me one and it is great. He donates his to auctions such as CCA's and Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries' banquets.

Im Headed South · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:11 am Post subject:

Thanks for the kind remarks. Yes that is the stringers that we use and we love them. When you get to boat you loosen the end where the float is located and your fish slide right off. She put it on the stringer until I could get there to snap some pics. as she has not upgraded to a true boga yet and she didnt trust her cheap one to hold her. Maybe the kids can get her a boga for mothers day hint-hint.
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putawaywet · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject:

KUDOS!!
Nice trout!

If my wife outfishes me again she's stayin' home.... Rolling Eyes

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robul · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2677

amazing catch!! great story.. congrats to your wife..

surfyaker · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 5

awesome catch, hope that is the start of many more to come!!!!

Capt. Forrest · Finger Mullet Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 33

you said the wind blew on saturday out of the north???? just joking, lol

we ran south to find some fish before the wind cranked up, then hit the flats to finish out the day.

congrat's to your wife on her new personal best!!! and thank you for the conservation efforts!!

Capt. Forrest