My new gear that Santa was bringing me didn't arrive in time to get brutalized in Beaufort, but I did get out for a couple of hours Wednesday and christened both reels.
One is a Shimano Caenan bait caster that I can use to keep the pressure off my poor old fishing elbow.
I was throwing a Rapala twitching shad and this nice 20" trout nailed it.
The reel throws sweet and supposedly will withstand the saltwater environment, but time will tell if that is true.
I must have been really good this year, because Santa also got me this Stradic cl4+ spinning reel.
Wow! Carbon fiber and light. Again, hoping that it will take the pressure off my elbow.
It got broken in by a keeper trout that ate a new penny Gulp shrimp. You can see the Gulp jig head peaking out of his mouth.
Caught one other trout on the jighead and called it a day after the huge incoming tide was trashing the water.
All of the fish went back to be caught another day! That was their Christmas present.
