Monday, December 08, 2008
December 2008 Extreme Redfishing with Rob and Dave
What a morning! This morning I had Rob Prewitt and Dave Harsant onboard. Rob called me recently sounding very excited wanting to get in on some of the extreme Winter redfishing Mike and I are always talking about. After checking out the weather, I told Rob that Sunday was going to be perfect, even with the 20 to 25mph winds and cold temps forecasted. These guys were tough, hopping on just after daylight with wind chills below freezing. We eased away and into some creeks while we gave the sun a chance to rise into position. We landed three small reds in the creeks in about a half hour of fishing and then moved out to the shoals and began searching. It took about 15 minutes to locate the first school of fish, which had approx. 500 reds ranging from 23in. to 26in. The fish were feeding very well despite the early morning cold water temps. We caught about a dozen off the school and then left them to some other recreational fishermen that arrived and we moved on to locate a bigger school. Over the course of the next couple hours we found 3 more schools of Redfish with the largest school between 3000 and 4000 fish ranging from 24in. to 30+in There were some pigs in this school... We released about 75 Redfish, unharmed, to bite another day and Rob and Dave obviously had a great time. This type of fishing will bring out the kid in ya... and congrats to Dave on his first Redfish ever!.. 2nd, 3rd,... oops, lost count! Folks, the Winter offers up some of the most exciting Redfishing with amazing numbers of catch and releases. Both Capt. Mike and I will be offering these trips all Winter! All you need is 4 to 6hrs to possibly set you're new personal record of Redfish releases in a single day!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
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JCRONK@EC.RR.COM
