Annual redfishing trip coming up!

[gotmuddy]

Normally I go down the second week of february to the freeport, tx area for this trip but this year extenuating circumstances prevent it...the birth of our daughter in early february.  SO the date has been bumped up to new years weekend. I even bought a new boat(which I hope to have at jigfest 2 next weekend)

[snagged in outlet 3]

Nice!!

[shrapnel]

Redfish is one of my top 10 fish to eat, love em blackened.  Went to Delacroix LA in Sept and crushed em, will be headed to FL in a couple weeks to try and get on some 40"+ bulls and big speckled trout.   Biggest trout last year was 29"

 

Good luck to ya.

[Gavin]

Nice boat! Love to catch reds, hope you have a great trip!

[Ham]

Dang Cody, Nice boat. 

[gotmuddy]

5 hours ago, Ham said:

Dang Cody, Nice boat. 

Thanks ham, it needs some tlc but it will be a fun project

[gotmuddy]

8 hours ago, shrapnel said:

Redfish is one of my top 10 fish to eat, love em blackened.  Went to Delacroix LA in Sept and crushed em, will be headed to FL in a couple weeks to try and get on some 40"+ bulls and big speckled trout.   Biggest trout last year was 29"

 

Good luck to ya.

We are thinking about going to hopedale in May 

[Ham]

My life is not my own.

[LittleRedFisherman]

Nice boat Cody! 

[Paparock]

Ahhhhh! Redfish! How I miss them! They never tire of giving you the fight of your life if it is in the mud flats in the salt grass or out at the jetties during the "Bull Run"! Tailing Reds in the skinny water or out at the end of the jetties at Galveston I never tired of catching "reds"! 

I had a 21ft. Gulf Coast in a sling out back of my canal home in Bayou Vista, Texas. Had a light in the water so at night the bait fish would form a living "lava lamp". The big trout would "POP" bait so loud sometimes off the surface you would swear it had to be kids slapping the flat side of paddles on the water out in the canal. Mama would say she felt like some fresh fish for supper so I would take my rod down on my dock and cast past the light into the darkness. As the lure approached the edge of the light hold on because something was taking off on a screaming run. Redfish or trout it did not matter as that was the life. I have watched a silver dollar size crab swimming across the surface when suddenly a four foot long Redfish came completely out of the water to suck it in and re-enter the water with a huge splash. I loved just watching the action!    

Have you ever seen a living "shad fountain" that is when the redfish and big sea trout would pen a school of shad in the end of one of the canals where I once lived and then plowed into them  from below. The bait would explode upward out of the water into a fountain like display trying to get away from the predators beneath the surface. There were often hundreds of bait fish forming what looked just like a giant fountain coming out of the water and then raining out and back down into the water. It looked very impressive and beautiful. Sometimes this would happen several times in a row. I have seen a similar thing when big Jack Crevalle would pen a school of up to 2 pound mullet against the Galveston jetties. Seeing a hundred 2 pound mullet skyrocketing four feet out of the water in mass for their lives is quite a site to behold.