Day 2 started out with similar weather as day one - good sun, light winds, and a little bit warmer. Today we were hoping to get into the big reds and find them feeding a little better than yesterday. We worked the entrance to a pond at our first stop, only to find a decent sized black drum that was not interested in eating my fly. Along the bank, however, were some fish working the white shrimp and we watched a couple for a while before Dad picked them off one at a time.
Fish pushing water as it cruises the bank
White shrimp popping out as the red crawls in the skinny water
Eventually we moved on to a few other areas looking for big fish and found a handful to throw at. Highlight of the day came a couple of stops later when we rounded a point and I saw a big fat red facing away from us. I made the cast out in front of the fish and watched him turn his head, open his giant mouth, and inhale my fly. After a decent bull dog fight, we brought him aboard and measured him out at 30 pounds on the boga grip.
We ended the day poling deep into a pond to hide from the afternoon sea breeze. There were several reds working the bank as well as some huge alligator gar surfacing in the middle of a tidal creek.
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