Sunday, January 09, 2011
1/6/2011 Sightcasting Backwater Reds on Gulps and the Fly!
Sat. 1/8/2011
Gotta love the weather.... I had Dave. R. onboard this morning wanting to sightcast some redfish and hoping to catch one on his flyrod in the cold of January... We left the dock around 10am to allow the sun to get up good enough to be able to sight fish in the shallow backwater flats... Our first shore offered a chance at a pod of 30 pups from 15in to 25in. We stared at them and they stared back... they wouldn't eat our clousers but, we finally tossed a new penny gulp baitfish in the pocket and a 24in red slammed it and peeled out of the marsh. We moved on to another spot that had about a hundred pups and managed to pick up one but they also didn't want to chew.... we left the area and worked some shallow bays with the 25mph winds to our backs... and located a massive school of upper slot reds from 20in to 30in. and caught them non-stop for several hours on gulp baits... and Dave managed to land 3 pups on a copper/red clouser.
-Capt. Jeff Cronk
Fish'n4life
252-764-2174
Gotta love the weather.... I had Dave. R. onboard this morning wanting to sightcast some redfish and hoping to catch one on his flyrod in the cold of January... We left the dock around 10am to allow the sun to get up good enough to be able to sight fish in the shallow backwater flats... Our first shore offered a chance at a pod of 30 pups from 15in to 25in. We stared at them and they stared back... they wouldn't eat our clousers but, we finally tossed a new penny gulp baitfish in the pocket and a 24in red slammed it and peeled out of the marsh. We moved on to another spot that had about a hundred pups and managed to pick up one but they also didn't want to chew.... we left the area and worked some shallow bays with the 25mph winds to our backs... and located a massive school of upper slot reds from 20in to 30in. and caught them non-stop for several hours on gulp baits... and Dave managed to land 3 pups on a copper/red clouser.
-Capt. Jeff Cronk
Fish'n4life
252-764-2174
