Ninering62
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On Saturday my friend & I took the canoe to Shell mound, which we do a cpl times a month. The water level was up even at low tide & the current was gittin it.
We caught a lot of live shrimp in our cast nets & launched from the campground at Shell mound. We fished out in the deeper water in front of the pier, but fish were tailing in the flats & grass beds. They turned out to be big redfish. No black drum was seen at all.
Just a lot of bull reds. They weren't hitting the shrimp, but we both caught big Lady Fish & I chunked them up for the reds. They hit that cut lady fish all day long. I boated 3 big reds, all within the slot. The biggest one was 27" on the money.
We caught a few short reds & my friend had 2 big reds in a row break his line. He caught a short speckled trout & of course we caught more than our share of small catfish.
It was an incredible day on the water in a canoe. We kept our 1 fish each, which I filleted them both at the campground.
Here's some of the nice reds I caught.
We caught a lot of live shrimp in our cast nets & launched from the campground at Shell mound. We fished out in the deeper water in front of the pier, but fish were tailing in the flats & grass beds. They turned out to be big redfish. No black drum was seen at all.
Just a lot of bull reds. They weren't hitting the shrimp, but we both caught big Lady Fish & I chunked them up for the reds. They hit that cut lady fish all day long. I boated 3 big reds, all within the slot. The biggest one was 27" on the money.
We caught a few short reds & my friend had 2 big reds in a row break his line. He caught a short speckled trout & of course we caught more than our share of small catfish.
It was an incredible day on the water in a canoe. We kept our 1 fish each, which I filleted them both at the campground.
Here's some of the nice reds I caught.
