Yesterday I spent the majority of daylight hours on the water. I got up and fished the low tide in the morning, mostly for trout. It was slick calm on the harbor and a great ride all the way out to Ft. Sumter. I poled around a flat out there looking for pushing reds, but did not find any. Instead, we ran into a bunch of finger mullet and large shrimp, which we caught in the cast net and filled the livewell with. Once the tide started coming back in, we moved over to a now-submerged oyster bed at a creek mouth and caught a ton of medium sized trout.
In the afternoon, we put the boat in at about 4:30 and ran to a new area that I scouted out Friday afternoon. Just like Friday, the reds were coming onto the grass flats with the tide, and were tailing around in just inches of water. I managed to catch one smaller fish on my 6 wt, on a fly I tied Saturday night during the football games. I broke out the video camera as well and filmed a few other fish tailing around for their evening meal. The weather was nice and cool, and the calmest I can remember it being in a long time. The ride back to the boat ramp was very pleasant with the setting sun and glassy water. Not a bad way to end a good weekend. Was able to log 4 trips in 3 days, and look forward to getting out the next three as well if the weather lets me.
Yesterday I spent the majority of daylight hours on the water. I got up and fished the low tide in the morning, mostly for trout. It was slick calm on the harbor and a great ride all the way out to Ft. Sumter. I poled around a flat out there looking for pushing reds, but did not find any. Instead, we ran into a bunch of finger mullet and large shrimp, which we caught in the cast net and filled the livewell with. Once the tide started coming back in, we moved over to a now-submerged oyster bed at a creek mouth and caught a ton of medium sized trout.
In the afternoon, we put the boat in at about 4:30 and ran to a new area that I scouted out Friday afternoon. Just like Friday, the reds were coming onto the grass flats with the tide, and were tailing around in just inches of water. I managed to catch one smaller fish on my 6 wt, on a fly I tied Saturday night during the football games. I broke out the video camera as well and filmed a few other fish tailing around for their evening meal. The weather was nice and cool, and the calmest I can remember it being in a long time. The ride back to the boat ramp was very pleasant with the setting sun and glassy water. Not a bad way to end a good weekend. Was able to log 4 trips in 3 days, and look forward to getting out the next three as well if the weather lets me.
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