Sunday, January 16, 2011
1/16/2011 Sightcasting to Shallow Water Reds!
Went out today for about 2-3hrs with Dion Lynn onboard. We had great conditions with less than 5mph winds, full sun, and the flats were warming quickly. Our first stop and we found several schools of 50 to 100 redfish. They weren't feeding to well but, we eased around them and powerpoled down in 14in of water and finessed them with very light jigheads and Berkley Gulp Jerkbaits. We managed to catch 6 from 18in to 23in. Later, we moved on to another creek and found a small pod of about 20 larger reds moving. We followed them for a few minutes until they came to rest on a corner and our first cast in them got us a hookup. This red was 24in. and it was absolutely an amazing sight in gin clear water. Today we were able to see most of our fish suck the baits off the bottom!
-Capt. Jeff Cronk
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