More tailing reds

Today I had the pleasure of having 4 loyal CCA members on my boat. We were greeted early this morning by upper slot redfish waiving their tails at us as they cruised the short grass. We had many shots on tailing fish. As they came out of the grass we started hooking up with some nice reds. Had a few blow up topwater lures but none stayed hooked up. Got one trout as well. Over the past couple of days have caught Spanish macks on topwater plugs, reds on spoons, spinner baits, plastics from Carolina beach to morehead city and everywhere between. Picking up lots of flounder as by catch.

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2011 IFA Redfish Tour Surf City Champs

This past weekend hurricane Drew and I won the IFA Redfish Tour tournament held at Surf City, NC. This was the second year in a row we have won this tourney. With the win we were able to clinch the IFA redfish tour Atlantic Division for the third year in a row. This is a measurement of consistancy and we have had our best regular season on the IFA Redfish Tour. Now we get to go down and duke it out with the other 5 divisional winners in Chalmette, La. for national team of the year at the championship. We will be defending that title as well as we won national team of the year in 2010 at Orange Beach, AL. Now to the fishing. We spanked the reds on game day. We wacked fish on topwater, spoons, and soft plastics. For the last hour of the tournament we were doubled up with reds every cast. Out of the 5 schools of fish we worked we pulled over 60 fish! What a phenomenal day given the conditions-overcast and hard northeast winds. The weird part was the fact that of of all of those fish they were all around 5 lbs or overslot. We were shocked that our fish won with 11.85 lbs. What a surprise to win the tourney with less than 14 lbs. That tells u how tough the conditions were.

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fishing new areas

Today I headed North and got back to tournament pre fishing for this weekends redfish action tournament in beaufort, nc. We are currently sitting in second place for the series and need a strong finish this weekend to claim the series. Today i checked out some new Areas and caught fish at most of them. Having said that the fish were not real aggressive today. I sight fished for most of the day but also got a few on top. Broke off the last fish of the day on top. Hopefully we will find a lot more fish tomorrow even further north.

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Tons of Tailers

Went out fishing today on a mission to find tailing fish on flats I have never fished. Find them I did. I fished six flats and found tailing fish on each one. Ditched the boat and went stalking on foot. On each flat there were several fish. The last flat I hit had the most tailers i have ever seen tailing at the same time. There were 4-8 fish in each corner of the flat tailing. Then I walked a little farther and found two more small flats shaped like a pond. There were some massive reds tailing in this area. I caught three over slot reds and more 23-26 fish than I could keep count. The exude crave and three inch gulps were worn today. It was very windy and rained most of the day. After launching my boat this morning I noticed rained quick approaching the area I was fishing. I poled down right near the ramp and contiplated just putting the boat back on the trailer. I decided to stay put to see if there was any lightning in the system before getting too far from the ramp. I put rain gear on started fishing just as the rain came down. On my third cast I hooked up with an overy slot red. The day just got better and better all day until the wAter left the flats-then I went home. Today I caught more tailing fish than i have ever caught in one day.

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Stalking reds in the grass

Got to fish my favorite way yesterday after being in tournament mode for the last few weeks. Went to some of my favorite tailing flats and stalked them on foot. Was very windy but the fish put on a show. Went 6 for 7 on them in the grass. The only one I didn't hook up popped the plastic on top and didn't get it. Tide didn't get as high as I wanted so it cut us short on time. Saw several waving tails on the three flats we hit. Got a dozen flatfish as by catch waiting on the tide to rise. Got another red on a spinnerbait.

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Redfish on top

Got a few reds on top the past week. fished three days and covered a lot of water. Winds were high which made for tough fishing. Found a couple of schools but far less productive than I had hoped. On the water this weekend for the IFA redfish tourney out of surf city. hopefully we will finish strong and capture the IFA Atlantic division for third year in a row. We have some good competitors that r one and two points ahead of us heading into the final tourney.

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