I love fishing. There's not much that is more relaxing than sitting back on a boat, a bait soaking in the water, feeling a breeze cool you down, soaking up some sun, enjoying a nice cold drink and catching fish. And it's always exciting to be working a creek with a topwater plug early in the morning with the sun coming up, smooth glassy water when all of a sudden the water explodes around your plug as you hook a hungry fish.
For me though, probably the most challenging fishing is trying to catch those flood tide redfish. They get up in the grass, stand on their heads and root around eating snails and crabs and other little tasites. So you can see their pretty little tails waving away saying "Here I am! Here I am!"
I'm not particularly good at flood tide redfishing, though it is a lot of fun and is exciting to me. I trip over my own feets and face plant (and that'll spook a whole flat of fish quickly). I bonk them on the head with my lures as I"m trying to cast to them. I run the line over the top of their body and spook them when I cast too far right over them. I cast totally in the wrong direction on occassion. Needless to say I don't catch a whole lot of them. But still I go out trying to catch those wily redfish.
Summertime floodtide redfishing is done in the evening. You have a very short window to work with before the sun goes down on you. But it can be just as productive as fall floodtide fishing.
It starts with a stalk on the redfish.
Getting close enough to cast but not too close to spook.
HAH!!! I got one!!!!!
As I said, it doesn't happen often that I catch a flood tide redfish, in fact this was my second one and my first one that I actually cast to. So, I'm still learning what to do when you actually catch a fish.
Eventually I get a hold of that gorgeous wiggly redfish
Did you see that? I finally caught one!
It sure is fun catching these fish and this one sure is a gorgeous fish.
We head back to the boat after that
So that we can try one more flat
Before the sun completely sets
Many, many thanks to Steve for capturing my second flood tide redfish on camera. It was quite exciting for me to catch one of these pretty fish in the grass.
Danibeth
For me though, probably the most challenging fishing is trying to catch those flood tide redfish. They get up in the grass, stand on their heads and root around eating snails and crabs and other little tasites. So you can see their pretty little tails waving away saying "Here I am! Here I am!"
I'm not particularly good at flood tide redfishing, though it is a lot of fun and is exciting to me. I trip over my own feets and face plant (and that'll spook a whole flat of fish quickly). I bonk them on the head with my lures as I"m trying to cast to them. I run the line over the top of their body and spook them when I cast too far right over them. I cast totally in the wrong direction on occassion. Needless to say I don't catch a whole lot of them. But still I go out trying to catch those wily redfish.
Summertime floodtide redfishing is done in the evening. You have a very short window to work with before the sun goes down on you. But it can be just as productive as fall floodtide fishing.
It starts with a stalk on the redfish.
Getting close enough to cast but not too close to spook.
HAH!!! I got one!!!!!
As I said, it doesn't happen often that I catch a flood tide redfish, in fact this was my second one and my first one that I actually cast to. So, I'm still learning what to do when you actually catch a fish.
Eventually I get a hold of that gorgeous wiggly redfish
Did you see that? I finally caught one!
It sure is fun catching these fish and this one sure is a gorgeous fish.
We head back to the boat after that
So that we can try one more flat
Before the sun completely sets
Many, many thanks to Steve for capturing my second flood tide redfish on camera. It was quite exciting for me to catch one of these pretty fish in the grass.
Danibeth
