IFA Redfish Charleston

Drew and I covered quite a bit of water in and around the Charleston area over the past three days.  We found schools of fish everywhere we fished.  We hit five different water bodies and made our game plan on Friday night for the tourney. First cast on tourney day I land a small trout, then a couple casts later I had a red follow and strike my soft plastic on top while I wasn't looking and I snatched it away from him.  Then Drew broke one off on hooks the very next cast in the same spot.  We pulled the hooks on a couple of fish and landed one on this flat.  We had tailers in the short grass but couldn't capitalize on them.  We left that flat and hit two more flats.  Stuck our second fish on this flat and tried to upgrade from there.  Hit a very large school on this flat but couldn't get them to eat.  Unfortunately these were all the right size fish.  Went to another flat holding fish and we stuck 5 more reds, upgrading our smallest fish.  Hit some docks before we headed to the scales but never found an upgrade.  Ended up in 7th place in the tournament and stayed alive in the team of the year race heading into the regional championship.

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Cape Fear Reds

Today started off a little shaky with storm rolling in from the Atlantic but ended up being a pretty nice day.  After waiting out the rain for about an hour we headed back out on the flats in pursuit of skinny water reds.  The tide was dead low so it made getting around a little tough.  We popped a fish cruising the bank with his back out of the water shortly after the rain stopped.  We saw a few more we couldn't get to crawling down the bank crushing bait with their backs out of the water.  Moved onto another flat and stuck five or six more on soft plastics.  Hit two more flats pulling the hooks on two more and landing two more goldfish on soft plastics and gold spoons.  Not a bad half day fishing.

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Inshore Tuesday

<p>Started off the day in the skinny backwater of the cape fear this morning. At our first spot Alan pulled the hooks on a red sitting tight on the bank.  Within the next couple minutes Norman stuck a slot red from the same area on a soft plastic. We saw a few more reds that weren't interested in our offering so we moved and hit three more flats. Pulled one flounder for our efforts and hit another body of water.  Norman pitched a soft plastic to a fish right off the bow and watched him eat it.  I helped him land this lit up 24" goldfish, snap a pic, and release him.  We fished the rest of the flat and ran over a good pod of fish before re locating.  At our next flat I saw an upper slot cruising the bank in 6 inches of water.  I told Alan to make a long cast down the bank and bring the swimbait back front of the cruising red.  The fish turned and attached the soft plastic and just as he came tight he was gone.  Norman got a small trout and Alan lost a flounder right beside the boat before moving again.  We hit two more flats and Norman struck again with a pretty mid slot goldfish.  Then at our last spot I saw fish moving in the super skinny loose grass.  I tossed a soft plastic in the grass and came tight on a nice red that broke me off.  It was tough conditions throughout the day with low water, dead algae in the water everywhere, and some wind.  Not a bad day throwing artificial lures only like usual.

Redfish Action 2nd place

Fished the first Redfish Action tournament yesterday.  Started off hot at our first spot with a 26" red on a doa jerkbait.  Then we fished two more hours without a bite.  Made a move to my backyard and they were waiting on us.  Drew popped a 25" and 26" fish at our first spot.  Then we popped six or seven more at the next two spots.  Moved again and popped two more to finish the day.  Had a good day of fishing on a day that started off with rain wind and overcast skies.  The sun came out before noon and it turned out to be a nice day on the water.  We finishes in second place being edged out by 4/100 of an ounce.  Tough being on that side of a close battle for the win, but thats tournament fishing.  Were happy with our day being neither of us were on the water for almost two weeks until the day before the tourney.

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Pretty good day

I had two trips today at Wrightsville Beach.  We hit six spots before we found any fish willing to cooperate.  Spot number 7 was the ticket we pulled two in a row first two casts.  These fish were brutes.  Richard ended up breaking off five more and landing three more from this school.  Fish were caught on DOA and gulps of all sizes shapes and colors. 

Dropped Richard off at the dock and picked up Robbie.  We hit two spots and pulled two flounder and three upper slot reds.

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Slow day on the water

Did some fishing with Hurricane D for one of our upcoming tourneys today.  We started out seeing fish on a skinny water flat as the tide was rolling out.  I pulled one out of a small school or reds on a jerk bait.  We proceeded to hit several more flats on this very windy day during a negative low tide.  We never saw another fish on this day.  The water was crystal clear and must have went deep during the low tide.

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Spring Fishing the Cape Fear Region

With a new addition to Capt Shannon and I's family and rigging a new boat, our time on the water this winter was minimal.  When we were able to get out the bite was good and the fish were plenty.  We had such a mild winter the fish never left the flats.  We had family in town last week so I took them out on the boat for some light tackle action.  The wind was howling but we did not let that deter us.  We found fish everywhere we went.  We caught 3 flounder and about ten reds on a short trip.  We left them biting as the tide was getting right when we left.  We found some really nice schools of reds on this day.

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