I fished out of Ft. Fisher again today. Pretty quickly I hooked into a good trout out of a deep hole which I lost at the boat
As Im sitting shaking my head I hear splashing. I look into a cove on the left of me and there are fish jumping everywhere. I paddled in and they were reds. One almost jumped in my yak. Anyway I spent an hour and a half with fish jumping all around me and I could not hook up. I used topwater plugs, yozuri jumping minnow and a zarra spook, Gulp shrimp, a small crankbait, and a spinner all to no avail. I was wondering if anybody fly fishes for reds and if so what flies do you use?
I was pretty discouraged but fished for a couple more hours and finally caught 5 reds with 3 of them around 17 inches. On my paddle back I stopped for revenge on the trout that spit the hook earlier and got him.
18 inches 2lbs even
