Enjoyed Thanksgiving hunting at the deer lease, but a almost a month without fishing was starting to get to me. So saturday I hit the beach at sunup in High Island. Met up with a few friends that had camped over night. The bait stores had no good bait, so was going to have to make my own. Whitting were easy to catch on dead shrimp, also got a few silver perch and a few puppy drum up to 30". Lot of fun to start the morning with the bait rod. As temps started to rise and I had enough bait to make it through the day. We paddled offshore in the kayaks after a few sleigh rides. Did not take long for the bull reds to heat up and get hungry. Nonneck was in his new Fish N Dive and broke it in right.
Noneck hooked up
Noneck with the first of many big bull reds from the FnD
The action was good with most of the kayak anglers landing a few bull reds each. Did not take long for me and Trailshoe to get in on the action also .
Trailshoe with a bull red
Jolly Roger with a bull red
After getting a few bull red each from the kayak we headed back to the ebach to enjoy some surf fishing. The bull reds were starting to hit the casted biats. Once on the beach it did not take long for me to be rewarded with a big bull red from a casted bait.
Jolly Roger with a bull red
The action on the beach picked up staedy and most everyone were catching bull reds on casted baits. Fresh cut bait was working best, but a few reds did hit frozen. Mullet was the bait of choice, with whitting coming in a close second. Fresh crabs was also working well. Lot of bull reds caught during the day. Here are a few pics of the catches
HWK hooked up
HWK with a bull red
SUNDAY 11/26/06
Sunday conditions were not as good as saturday with a stiff ENE wind. The surf was chopped up. Not much bait in the surf, but could catch a few whitting on shrimp or fishbites. I got the first rods casted out around eight and the waiting game started. The action was slow all morning, only Josh caught a Big Ugly before lunch. Around lunch someone turned the switch on, and the red began to feed. Most any bait cast over the first sandbar resulted in a bull red. Few double hook ups and lot of bull reds hitting the sand in a few hours. Fishing slowed around two, by this time most of us had slowed also. Few random pics of te day
Neverenough with a Big Ugly
Mythman with a monster bull red
Galvbay with a bull red
Was a perfect weekend to do some kayak and surf fihing. Conditions, temps and wind were all good. We also caught a few fish. Once again I had a great time on the beach with friends. Looking foward to the TOBA tournament on December 9th, should be a very fun time.
My favorite pic of the weekend, love good beach fires.
. Leave a few for me..., ok? 
