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Hey all it's been too long, I've been busy with deployment and school after school the whole year . Finally got my boat out for the first time in almost 8 months and got my brother and wife a few fish on their anniversary. You know you got a good one when a fish fry is her anniversary wish!
Anyways, the water was glass this morning and we hit a few main river points and flats. Bait is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Lots of bait was getting blown up on flats in 2-4 ft. We started with top water and had small blues busting almost every cast... It was exciting but they weren't big enough to be worth much. Couldn't get any trout or drum to hit top water. It started to get frustrating because in the first three or four spots on the main river we hit, blues were hitting every bait you'd throw, and plastics where obviously a waste of time because they'd chop em up every cast...
Put 3 or 4 small but edible blues in the boat and let another 15 or so go. Probably missed 50 of em, many were so small they'd simply foul hook themselves going after the top water.
Moved into the larger creeks to try and get away from blues and find some decent drum and trout and didn't do well. Again bait was everywhere so it was hard to narrow it down, but we threw everything - top water, mirros, swimbaits and shrimp plastics and only landed a small flounder, small drum good, a decent trout and the biggest croaker I've ever caught. Trout was 21 and not worth taking a pic after it splashed around in the hot livewell all day. Drum and flounder came on swimbaits. And the croaker which I didn't measure but probably would've fallen in the drum slot limit came on top water... I thought he was a drum even until I pulled him out of the net... I've caught lots of small croaker in cast nets but never seen one that big, **** thing pulled as hard a drum too I was surprised!
Anyway, the water is very stained from all the rain , the blues are definitely in there, lots if small ones but some good size eating ones as well. I know the trout and drum are there but I couldn't find em today! Gonna hit her up again tomorrow any tips?
Only pic worth sharing- I " quick released " the croaker before I could snap a picture and everything else would embarrass me to post
Anyways, the water was glass this morning and we hit a few main river points and flats. Bait is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Lots of bait was getting blown up on flats in 2-4 ft. We started with top water and had small blues busting almost every cast... It was exciting but they weren't big enough to be worth much. Couldn't get any trout or drum to hit top water. It started to get frustrating because in the first three or four spots on the main river we hit, blues were hitting every bait you'd throw, and plastics where obviously a waste of time because they'd chop em up every cast...
Put 3 or 4 small but edible blues in the boat and let another 15 or so go. Probably missed 50 of em, many were so small they'd simply foul hook themselves going after the top water.
Moved into the larger creeks to try and get away from blues and find some decent drum and trout and didn't do well. Again bait was everywhere so it was hard to narrow it down, but we threw everything - top water, mirros, swimbaits and shrimp plastics and only landed a small flounder, small drum good, a decent trout and the biggest croaker I've ever caught. Trout was 21 and not worth taking a pic after it splashed around in the hot livewell all day. Drum and flounder came on swimbaits. And the croaker which I didn't measure but probably would've fallen in the drum slot limit came on top water... I thought he was a drum even until I pulled him out of the net... I've caught lots of small croaker in cast nets but never seen one that big, **** thing pulled as hard a drum too I was surprised!
Anyway, the water is very stained from all the rain , the blues are definitely in there, lots if small ones but some good size eating ones as well. I know the trout and drum are there but I couldn't find em today! Gonna hit her up again tomorrow any tips?
Only pic worth sharing- I " quick released " the croaker before I could snap a picture and everything else would embarrass me to post
