Fished the Redfish Action Series out of Sneads Ferry today. With all three of my boats in the shop and my fishing partner without a boat we had no time to pre fish for the tourney. We ended up borrowing one of Drew's friends skiff. I have been running near shore charters the past two weeks since my offshore boat was the only boat in my fleet that was not being serviced. Drew got out on the water around sneads Ferry for a few hours Friday and saw only a few fish. I was supposed to be on the boat with him but had to turn around and come home to babysit my baby girls because our babysitter was sick. We hit the spot Drew found fish first only to find another boat coming off the flat so we hit the spots I hit two weeks ago on charters and found fish pretty quick. Within two casts I'm hooked up with a nice slot red that sucked down a topwater lure. I got him near the boat and he pulled the hooks. Bad start.
Next we hit one of my favorite flats. Found a pod of hungry reds. I landed our first red on a topwater lure on this bank. We decided to move onto a spot I haven't fished in over a year and by the way these fish cooperated I dont think anyone else has either. first cast and I'm hooked up once again on topwater and on the other end of the line was our largest fish we weighed in. For the next two hours we wacked
Fish on topwater, spoons, and soft plastics. We caught a handful of over slot reds that pounded topwater lures lime tarpon. The largest over slot was 32" and 12 lbs. I caught a deformed fish that was 21" shaped like a bass and 5.5 lbs-would love to have two of them in SC. We also caught a red with 31 spots. During this beatdown we caught 20-30 slot reds and upgraded our second fish several times. With two fish at 26.6 inches we left those fish alone and hit a flat we hit earlier. We found a nice school of reds on this flat and pulled another fish off this bank. From there we shifted gears and hit the flat we started on and had no luck. We moved again and hit a flat I found some fish on two weeks ago. The fish were still in the same place I left them. We bumped the school and drew popped a fish that ran into the boat. This was our last upgrade of the day. We decided to check in early at 2 pm. We saw two they teams already at the dock so we knew they had some good fish as well. We ended up with 13.04 lbs and second place in the tourney. Not a bad day for one day of pre fishing and a borrowed boat.
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