16 June 2007

Met Kurt, his brother, Sam, and Adam at Galvez ramp at 0615. We spoke last night regarding what these three wanted to target today. I told them of my adventure yesterday, and plugged the snapper fishing. That's when they told me that they had fished with Capt. Bobby Walker the day before and weren't really interested in another snapper trip; they wanted to try the Speckled Trout fishing.

My trout fishing lately has consisted of mostly short fish and those have been far between, so I suggested that we could fish trout early, then ease out of the Pass and fish for Redfish and Mackerel. We settled on this plan and were headed for the grass flats of Big Lagoon.

Our first drift produced some nice blow-ups and swirls but no hook-ups. Still, I was glad to see some fish hanging around and somewhat interested in feeding. We switched some baits around and in the next three drifts we boated two nice 16-17" trout. We missed quite a few fish during that time and pulled the hook on a couple more...I'm ecstatic by now, morning's looking up.

I had set a pinfish trap the night before in preparation for today. Once the tide slowed at our first stop, and the fish slowed with it, we made the short run to pick up the trap. With 2 dozen 2-3" "Pinners" in the well we shot over to another section of grass to try it again. The deeper grass seemed to be the spot; and Kurt found a hungry 4lb trout lounging in 6-8' of water. Wow, that's officially the BIGGEST Speck to be caught on the new boat!!! Needless to say, I'm thrilled. Adam and Sam also found trout in the deep grass; Adams a nice 16"er and Sams an 8"dink.

In what seemed like an hour, the clock had sped to 0930. I told the guys if they wanted to try big Redfish on light tackle we'd have to leave soon. All but Kurt agreed (he wanted another shot at a big Trout), and off to the Pass we went.

The Redfishing in the Pass has been slowing for a few weeks now but today it was right on time! We baited our lines and on the first drop, Adam, hooks a perfect 26 3/4" fish...love it when a plan comes together! On three successive drifts we hooked and boated three more Bull Reds (all over 30"). Just after that the clock caught up with us, and it was time for me to return the boys to their truck for the long haul back to Montgomery.

Cooler Count: 4 Speckled Trout, 1 Redfish

(Kurt, Adam, and Sam with part of the days catch)

What a successful day with great guys,

Thanks again, Kurt , Sam, and Adam for a morning I won't soon forget.

Capt Josh