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HOMERFROMCORPUS · Horse Mullet Joined: 12 Jun 2011 Posts: 157

I read this "I might even include casting at feeding birds and tossing a lure behind a swimming stingray to catch trout or reds." in this article:

http://www.caller.com/news/2011/oct/30/sightcasting-fishing-from-a-different-view/

I am fairly new to salt water fishing and I had never heard this before.

My question is why would reds and trout follow a stingray?

The only thing that comes to my mind is maybe a stingray stirs the sediment and it uncovers possible food items.

I would like to hear anyone's opinion why.
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Permit · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:26 am Post subject:

You're correct, the stingray stirs the bottom up and the reds and/or trout sometimes follow behind them to pick off an easy meal. As the ol saying goes....where there's rays, there's reds.
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AcousTennis · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319

Agreed...today my yak was catching the sand bottom making a trail of sediment...three times i found redfish crusing behind my yak siffting through my trail....same concept

gdavis · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject:

I once sat in my yak surrounded by a school of skates in Aransas Pass and brought in red after red after red. This was very true that morning for me.