After some practice lessons, my two clients that couldn't cast worth a darn at first, improved enough to attempt to hit the fishing holes and hook into some fish, for my first evening fishing trip of the week.
The strong southeast winds were approaching with the front at around 7pm this evening, and a bunch of sea grass was uprooted and floating everywhere, making it hard to retrieve baits and messing with their retrieve. The grass bed had floated over many of the best places and hiding lots of redfish and a few speckled trout. Both species were following the grass covered lures but acted skittish and wouldn?t take the bait! The clients anxiously watched, continuously casting for the fish that wouldn't bite.
We decided to try our luck somewhere to get out of the wind, but that was similar to the 18-30 feet water we just left. We found some bigger redfish, although there weren't as many of them, in similar areas, sandy bottom with some cracked oyster shells, that didn?' have as much dead, sea grass to contend with.
Because the water was too clear to throw darker jigs, we opted for a Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jig head, and decided to jig the baits slowly up and down to see if we got a strike. It didn't take long to see them striking at the bait and the clients saw them start following the rig because the water was so clear, but they were retrieving it too fast to hook the redfish. Once I told them to relax and let the bait get in front of the fish, wait until you feel the strike and THEN set the hook, and shortly after that, the redfish started sucking their fishing lures down like they were candy.
Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could've gotten away!
We left that area to try for some speckled trout to go along with the redfish. Next, we hit a channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds that tapered off from flats going into the channel. Using the same color scheme, we tried the same action but the color was a bit sandier here. There were plenty of trout present, in mixed sizes from "peckerheads" to 21". I had one client rigged with a Rootbeer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, and both were getting popped constantly.
The holes on the flats held the largest trout, but there weren't as many of them as there were smaller, keeper fish that were holding on the drop off to the channel but were still some nice looking fish. In less than 4 hours, they had a lot of action counting the ones they released and they kept 14 of the speckled trout!
I like the new TruLoc jigheads, the hooks are good quality and sharp!!! We never lost any fishing lures because of the hooks, and only lost the tails on two lures because of redfish sucking them into their crunchers. You just can't help that, no worm is exempt from that kind of smashing.
The strong southeast winds were approaching with the front at around 7pm this evening, and a bunch of sea grass was uprooted and floating everywhere, making it hard to retrieve baits and messing with their retrieve. The grass bed had floated over many of the best places and hiding lots of redfish and a few speckled trout. Both species were following the grass covered lures but acted skittish and wouldn?t take the bait! The clients anxiously watched, continuously casting for the fish that wouldn't bite.
We decided to try our luck somewhere to get out of the wind, but that was similar to the 18-30 feet water we just left. We found some bigger redfish, although there weren't as many of them, in similar areas, sandy bottom with some cracked oyster shells, that didn?' have as much dead, sea grass to contend with.
Because the water was too clear to throw darker jigs, we opted for a Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jig head, and decided to jig the baits slowly up and down to see if we got a strike. It didn't take long to see them striking at the bait and the clients saw them start following the rig because the water was so clear, but they were retrieving it too fast to hook the redfish. Once I told them to relax and let the bait get in front of the fish, wait until you feel the strike and THEN set the hook, and shortly after that, the redfish started sucking their fishing lures down like they were candy.
Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could've gotten away!
We left that area to try for some speckled trout to go along with the redfish. Next, we hit a channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds that tapered off from flats going into the channel. Using the same color scheme, we tried the same action but the color was a bit sandier here. There were plenty of trout present, in mixed sizes from "peckerheads" to 21". I had one client rigged with a Rootbeer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, and both were getting popped constantly.
The holes on the flats held the largest trout, but there weren't as many of them as there were smaller, keeper fish that were holding on the drop off to the channel but were still some nice looking fish. In less than 4 hours, they had a lot of action counting the ones they released and they kept 14 of the speckled trout!
I like the new TruLoc jigheads, the hooks are good quality and sharp!!! We never lost any fishing lures because of the hooks, and only lost the tails on two lures because of redfish sucking them into their crunchers. You just can't help that, no worm is exempt from that kind of smashing.
About the Author:
Captain Robert Brooks is a licensed fishing guide who specializes in wadefishing for big speckled trout and redfish on the Gulf Coast using salt water fishing hookss. Robert recommends that you try out some fishing hooks from Brown Lures for your next fishing trip.
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