Sunday, January 06, 2008
Jan. 5th EXTREME REDFISHING! Thousands of Redfish!
CHECK OUT THIS SCHOOL OF REDS RIDING THE WAVE INTO US! Click on the pic to enlarge it.
Well, You would of thought it impossible to get a fish to bite this Sat. morning after three nights of below freezing temperatures, and 22 degrees as we pulled away from the dock. The backwaters fell from 59 degrees to 44 degrees in 4 days.. While the ocean dropped from 58 to 50. This type of condition is usually prime for setting us up with an Extreme Redfishing Trip! That's exactly what happened. The quick drop in water temps in the backwaters flushed the majority of the Redfish into the surfzone. With Tom Ridgway and his crew onboard, we headed out to find a school of these reds. About 10min.'s into it and we located a big school of 30+in. fish We tryed over and over to stay on these fish but they were very mobile and working a very dangerous shoal stacked up with big swell. We hooked up a couple and decided to move on a find some fish that were more easily accessible. We covered about 3miles of shoals and then we hit the mother load! We found a school of Redfish that was probably 200yards long and 50ft wide... There were probably upwards of 8,000 to 10,000 fish in this school. These fish ranged from 22in. to 30in. We began with constant hook-ups and followed these fish for a while. They eventually broke up into several schools and we took adavantage of several thousand fish that parked themselves on a shallow shoal. We anchored down and again began with constant catch and releases. These fish would continually ride the swell into the shoal and our boat, then swim back off. At one point, several 10ft porpoises decided they wanted a Redfish Sandwich... when they came in on a swell and dive bombed the school of reds in 2ft of water within 20ft of the boat. We caught reds until our arms were wore out! Then, to top it off, we went into the backwaters hoping to get on a few speckled trout... Instead, we located a school of 24 to 28in. Redfish in some shallow water and boated another 20 fish in about an hour. We headed back to the dock around 1:30pm absolutely satisfied with the awsome bite we were blessed with today! We probably landed close to 100 Redfish with the largest at 10lbs and 9 spots being the most on any fish today! Great job guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
336-558-5697 boat phone
910-326-7512 home phone (changing this Friday)
jcronk@ec.rr.com
Well, You would of thought it impossible to get a fish to bite this Sat. morning after three nights of below freezing temperatures, and 22 degrees as we pulled away from the dock. The backwaters fell from 59 degrees to 44 degrees in 4 days.. While the ocean dropped from 58 to 50. This type of condition is usually prime for setting us up with an Extreme Redfishing Trip! That's exactly what happened. The quick drop in water temps in the backwaters flushed the majority of the Redfish into the surfzone. With Tom Ridgway and his crew onboard, we headed out to find a school of these reds. About 10min.'s into it and we located a big school of 30+in. fish We tryed over and over to stay on these fish but they were very mobile and working a very dangerous shoal stacked up with big swell. We hooked up a couple and decided to move on a find some fish that were more easily accessible. We covered about 3miles of shoals and then we hit the mother load! We found a school of Redfish that was probably 200yards long and 50ft wide... There were probably upwards of 8,000 to 10,000 fish in this school. These fish ranged from 22in. to 30in. We began with constant hook-ups and followed these fish for a while. They eventually broke up into several schools and we took adavantage of several thousand fish that parked themselves on a shallow shoal. We anchored down and again began with constant catch and releases. These fish would continually ride the swell into the shoal and our boat, then swim back off. At one point, several 10ft porpoises decided they wanted a Redfish Sandwich... when they came in on a swell and dive bombed the school of reds in 2ft of water within 20ft of the boat. We caught reds until our arms were wore out! Then, to top it off, we went into the backwaters hoping to get on a few speckled trout... Instead, we located a school of 24 to 28in. Redfish in some shallow water and boated another 20 fish in about an hour. We headed back to the dock around 1:30pm absolutely satisfied with the awsome bite we were blessed with today! We probably landed close to 100 Redfish with the largest at 10lbs and 9 spots being the most on any fish today! Great job guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
336-558-5697 boat phone
910-326-7512 home phone (changing this Friday)
jcronk@ec.rr.com
