it matters in the total creeks. I went fishing in a Friday paddles 6 miles to spot. Saw 5 boats in the creeks. Most were cool and one had a boat full of younger dudes and they were dying laughing. “Wtf we ride all the way to the back of this creek and see a fucking kayak in our spot. Did not have that on our list today. You are either an idiot or genuis”. Had another boat just run past me and wake out all the oyster beds around me. Jokes on him he came back through and I had a fish on when he drove past. but yes I like fishing light rain. It’s so calm and peaceful when the rain stops. Probably my second favorite time to fish besides sunrise
Pussied out on sending it with thunderstorms as a possibility so cleaned the interior and deck. Gonna wax the exterior pretty soon.
Spent about 5 hours out Lost a crappie and the 1 bass was too small to waste time for a photo Ol boy landed 2 nice bass, couple nice keeper crappie and a couple bluegill.
Going up to a friend’s camp in Steinhatchee this weekend. Hoping to get into some reds. We went to Ozello this past weekend and got blown around. Completed the trash can slam of jacks, ladyfish, and an abundance of catfish so that sucked. For any of our other saltwater guys, I picked a subscription from saltstrong and I am impressed with the features. The maps showing grass beds and the like are very helpful. Also got the courses and I am blown away by the amount and quality of the content. Lots of things I never even considered and realized I’ve been doing wrong.
Might have to check out saltstrong. Is it an app? The navionics app is freaking awesome. Now I've got to figure out how to export routes from the navionics app to my Simrad MFD.
I like this guys fishing videos and his new boat is my dream single engine bay boat. This is him doing a walk through of it
Dude's killing it in his first two Bassmaster Opens. Finished top 10 at Eufaula and is currently in the lead by nearly 20 lbs after day 2 at Toledo Bend.
Listening to Alabama Saltwater Fishing Report podcast and they had Thomas Hitlon on. He kept talking about “spars” and I figured it stood for platform rigs. Had to look up the rest of the acronym: SPAR is the acronym for Single Point Anchor Reservoir(SPAR). With SPARS and drillships you don’t have to worry about altimetry as much but what temps and color are still helpful.
Thomas Hilton now has the sat2nav where you can get his service (SST, altimetry , etc) directly onto your MFD . Previously people were having to download it to an ipad and bring it along with them. But you still need internet. On the podcast he said he had customers doing tournament fishing that were using Star Link which is Elon Musks satellite internet service and they could get internet anywhere. Also mentioned some rigs will have internet you can tie into.
When we were in Steinhatchee last weekend, I caught a rock bass about half a mile from shore in a grass flat and then saw several largemouths about a quarter mile from shore — all mixed in with pinfish and a couple of stingrays. I thought that was pretty bizarre.
That's where I grew up fishing. With the river and creeks, it's a diverse fishery. My grandma got spooled out on a zebco 33 while trout fishing by a tarpon, very rare but every once in a while you see one.
Yesterday was my birthday so I took the day off with only 1 thing on the agenda: taking the boat out and fishing! Here's my report: I wanted to fish Marsh Point in Davis Bayou. There are a bunch of grass islands that hold flounder, the occasional spotted sea trout, redfish, and speehead. You can bounce around to various islands. So my first spot was a grass island in that area. Before I started fishing I ran the boat at cruising speed and wide open throttle to just run it a bit. I get really good mpg numbers at cruising speed. Wish my top end speed was better though. Anyways, I had live shrimp and 2 rods rigged with popping cork, 1 rod with a matrix shad tiger lure on a 1/4 oz jighead, and another with a knocker rig with a 2/0 octopus hook. First cast was a shrimp under a cork and pretty quickly got aggressively struck. For some reason when I went to set the hook I missed the fish. My drag was either too light or I let too much slack get in the line. I spent WAY too much time on this grass island. I'm horrible about messing around way too long on a spot and not moving around. I did notice some slicks in the bayou. I'm not sure if they were created by current or fish but there was one right next to the island. I cast into it and immediately had a fish on. 13 inch speckled trout. I spent at least 30 minutes catching throw back trout every cast. I then chased some other slicks without picking up any fish. Then moved to some different islands and caught some massive slimy gafftop catfish. My next spot was a dock that had been party demolished by a hurricane and thus not in use. I caught a keeper flounder on the knocker rig, a croaker, and had some other hits. Finally I fished the Ocean Springs/Biloxi bridge in about 15 feet of water . Was fishing the bottom with the knocker rig hoping for sheephead. The wind had picked up by this point and it was white capping in the protected bay so you know it was bad. We decided to take my 11 month old daughter on her first boat ride ever so I went to the dock and picked her and my wife up. She didn't cry or have a meltdown so I'm calling that a win. All and all was a great day on the water even though I only caught 1 keeper fish.
That’s an awesome birthday. You should take off Monday and go throw topwater at Ship. Might be holding a few fish right near middle of north side…
The best days are always weekdays. It's about to be getting right out at ship. Live croaker will land you some nice trout. I may try the big slick lure out there over the grass beds on the north side.
I know - I’ve been eyeing the forecast trying to take a couple of days off but the wind has been ruthless. I’m doing it this week though. I was wading and caught a ton of trout on the Slick with the weighted hook. Lots on top water and a Corky floater too. Just fishing big trout. I didn’t find anything huge - one a hair short of 25. My wading partner stuck a 29” 8.8lber. An absolute unit
good lord at an 8.8 lb trout. Yes the wind has been brutal. Every year I bitch through March and April. I think I've got the 4/0 unweighted screw on hooks for the slick. I've been meaning to get the weighted hooks to try with it. I figured they'd be good out at Ship over those grassbeds mimicking croaker. Also they are weedless so you don't get a bunch of grass on your hook.
decided to get a cobia set up for casting out to them . they didnt have ugly stick tiger lite. i would have bought a 6’6 trevala spinning jigging heavy rod but they only had medium heavy and i was worried about it not being heavy enough to land a big cobia.
Am I being OCD? I have a 6/0 octopus hook that I’ve got rigged up with a knocker rig for cobia fishing. The weight hits the knot and then the hook hangs at this weird sideways angle instead of straight down. Or is it a non issue?
with carolina rigs we always used plastic beads to protect knots from weights. i would probably put something there.
Used to never catch trout and now I catch them more than reds the last few months and I don’t target them at all.
Gusty bitch front has passed No work tomorrow One of these days it's gunna turn on. Here's hoping it's tomorrow.
Been my office for the week. Related, building bridges isn't as easy as one might think. I did get permission to fish, caught 4 small native brookies last Sunday. Lotta bugs out, which I think hurt my chances.
After enduring this god forsaken wind for the last 3 months, my itch to go out and fish on a nice calm sunny day is at a 10/10. I don't know how much longer I'm going to last before I just knock off at noon one of these days and go out there.