My buddy Tom has the Texas Redfish Series tournament there this Saturday, so I went down to help him scout out some new areas since I wouldn't be able to fish it. Well we got up early in the morning and proceeded south. We arrived at the launch at the bridge around 6am. We make our run and get into spot #1, bait everywhere and fish pounding bait back in grass. I am inputting some GPS positions on where to target next when Tom buttons a fish. Here is the fish 27.5" and over 8lbs on the boca.
Nice fish but we need it smaller. We worked around in the creek with me catching a bass, then decided to pole Tom into position for those shallow reds. Not 3 mins into the pole a fish surfaces next to the boat, I make the call out and the glare stopped my friend from seeing the fish early enough. The fish bedded down under some grass and later spooked.
So we decided to leave that spot and search for others. We work our way back into the marsh and once again see bait all over the place with them getting crushed by reds that were ambushing them. I get on the long pole and get us moving around the shallows once again, fishes pop up about 15 yds from the boat I called it out and Tom presents. Fish on, but the smaller fish of the two. Here it is. Pretty small but its a fish
We continue through the marsh with me poling, we kept seeing really nice tournament quality fish but by the time we seen them they were spooked and gone. They were sitting up under the grass and chilling in the shade. Well we made our around a point where I started hearing crashing at the surface, there was a small pod of fishing crushing bait. We made our towards the fish and Tom pitched in with a top water lure. Here is his fish. Again a little dink.
We worked our down the marsh with me missing a few reds on top water, when I hear Tom saying something like "eat the lure you d#$% fish!" I looked up and see a red cruising. Tom mentioned that it followed his top water bait then backed off. And now was sitting high and stupid really close to the boat. Here are the photo's.
So since he wasn't excepting anything from Tom I was happy to pitch at him and he was eager to inhale my bait. Here is the fish 26 7/8" and 8.5lbs, now that is what we are looking for.
We knew the quality was there but just couldn't get on them. We got our pattern and moved on. We moved probably 100yds and was about to get out of the area, when I looked left and seen this:
It was a school of reds killing bait. We killed the big engine and made our way towards the activity. From that point on it was red catching for the next 2 hours, on what every we decided to throw at them. Top water, gulp, spinner bait, nemire lure, etc. But they were all lower slot fish and some not even legal (too small) but it was a tug on the line to say the least. Well my bud has some good areas to catch em and I hope he does. I just wish now I can fish the tournament knowing what I know of this spot.