Water: 66 deg., calm, high tide to outgoing
Air: 70's
Moon: Full
Hunter and I decided we would try to duplicate yesterday's success at the mouth of the OR.
Since everything was the same as yesterday except the tides just being an hour later, we decided to hit the docks in the OR with some shrimp while the tide was up.
We went almost to the bridge and decided to fish back towards the ramp.
We were pitching shrimp to the outside edges of the docks and used a baker's dozen of shrimp to no avail. The only bites we got were from what we think were sheepshead, jerk, no bait. No good redfish pulls.
So, off we went to the oyster bars. This time we got to fish one of our favorites in the middle of the bars.
I was casting a gold johnson spoon, and Hunter was gulpin a shrimp.
I caught this nice 20" trout on the spoon there.
Hunter caught a couple of small reds and I got broken off by a big red on a new penny gulp.
I remembered a workshop Nancy and I went to last winter. The guide said that a large gulp jerkshad works well.
So, I put on the last one I had and the first cast produced this guy.
We caught a couple more reds there, and then decided to head off to where we left them yesterday evening.
Although they weren't as thick as they were the night before, we were enjoyed a magnificent sunset and another nice 19" trout.
Hunter nabbed this nice red using my rod, while he made me retie his line when he got broke off on a fish. (sneaky).
Finally at dusk on the "last cast", I was quickly reeling in my jerkshad when a big ol' red came up and missed it as I about to pull it out of the water, I quickly stopped my retrieve and he came back. After a big swirl, a tightening of the line and a solid hook set; SNAP went my line.
We packed it in with the thoughts of "I'm gonna have to buy me another bag of those baits!"
