On two of my last three trips I have either stayed out on the flats or right up along the shoreline grass and for the most part that has dictated what I caught. Yesterday was an exception and I fished both along the shore and over grass flats.
The first morning I fished the flats and targeted trout. I caught thirteen before stopping to fish a point/oyster bar on my way back to the landing. I only managed to catch one small red. As I was paddling out I passed a lady in a kayak with two kids in a canoe. They were fishing a kayak tournament. The lady said she had only fished that bay one time so I told her to follow me out to the area where I can always count on catching trout. They anchored 100-150 yards from where I had anchored up. I didn't see them pull out the net or acting like they were catching fish so after a short while I pulled my anchor and paddled over to see if they had caught anything. The lady said none of them had gotten a bite. I know she saw me using the net but I didn't have the heart to tell her that in those same few minutes I had caught eight trout. I let them have that area and spent the rest of the morning scratching out a trout or two in another spot.
The second morning the tide was already coming in at sunrise so I went straight to my favorite redfish spot. I caught fifteen reds, all before 8:45. The wind was already strong and by 9:00 between the waves and all the recent rain visibility was pretty poor. That was also about the time the sun first peeked through the clouds. After the reds stopped biting the only other fish I caught was a single Spanish mackerel.
Yesterday I realized that I have not taken any fish pictures in the last few trips. I figured that if I caught a decent trout or redfish I would go to shore for a picture. That way I could post it on facebook so my friends will know I'm still alive. I started just before sunrise and the bottom half of an outgoing tide. I hit the redfish spot first and managed to catch two pretty quick. I gave up on that since the water was about gone and headed out to the flats for a couple of hours until the water was back up in the grass along the shore. Then I went back in close and fished there until the middle of the afternoon. My daily total was a dozen and a half trout, a half dozen reds, three Spanish and three ladyfish. I even managed to get a picture of either the best or second best trout I caught.