I hit my first mark 30 minutes later. Decided to go ahead and throw a RFM with a KFM in the Texas Roach color. Third cast BAM! I thought Emil was standing there, fish on! Hell yeah, I fight this fish, but due to the fish still being asleep I guess he just nicely comes in. Ok 22" Red. That will work. Next cast BAM! 20" red. Ok I cast for a few more minutes then decide to go ahead and put a tout on in the root beer color. I wade a little bit deeper, bout up to my waste, and throw out to the gut that I figured trout were in. 2 casts and BAM! Fish on. This fish is pulling hard, and when I say pulling hard I mean HARD! I play this fish out to find out that it’s a freaking black drum. He would have been around 35-40 inches. Fun to catch, but I hope he isn’t there come tourney day, because it took to much time away from my fishing.
I proceeded to cast in the same gut about 10 more times before the next hit. This one just kind felt like carpet. Yall know the feeling. You don’t know if it’s a fish or a rock. I pull this dang thing toward me to find out this what I was pulling started to pull back. I fight the fish gingerly, wow that’s a big word for me, and this dang fish won’t come up. It feels good but I still don’t know what it is. I finally get to see it. HOLLY &$%, that is one freaking huge flounder. I get him up and try to get my hands around his neck, or head, what ever you would call it on a flounder, I didn’t have a net because I could care less if I lost one right at me. But well, he got off. If I would have guessed the fish would have been around23 or so. No biggy, it got my heart pumping. I put on another root beer tout, because the last one was pretty torn up and cast out again. I feel a *tap* and my line starts running away from me. I rear back on my 6' 9" Falcon rod Laughing and set the hook, fight the fish to find out it’s another danged flounder in my trout hole. Oh well, this one went around 16", nothing HUGE but decent. I proceeded to catch 2 more flounder at that spot in about 20 casts.
I got tired of them danged ugly flat fish so i decided to go ahead and head to find some trout. I paddle another 30 minutes and get to where I think trout might be. 4 foot of water, scattered mud and shell. I jump out of the yak, on a reef and wade out to the deeper water. Still throwing my root beer tout. The time now is about 8:30, the sun is there, but covered in clouds. Then it starts drizzling. I put up my hood and continue to wade. I make about 15 casts before i hook up with my first trout, 16". Ok. Next cast BAM! This is a good fish. I fight him gingerly and then get my hands around his shoulders. BEAUTIFUL fish. Very thick trout about 22". Ok that will definitely work. I continued wading for another 30 minutes to catch numerous more trout to 20".
I finally deicide its time to head to where my big reds should be. I hop into the yak and make my 1 hour longer paddle. I get to my spot and rest for a minute. By this point I am about 5.5 miles away from my launch. I get out my Texas rig, with a 3/8 oz bullet weight, and a 3/0 gamagachu EWG hook and put on a texas roach bass assassin. As i am wading along this mixture of mud and shell I start to get a little cold. My fingers were quite cold. I thought I felt a hit but wasn’t sure. I decided to go ahead and set the hook any way. WOW that pissed off what ever was on the end of my line because he was taking drag like it wasn’t nothing. I finally turn the fish and bring him into my grasp. Oh yeah, this red would be real close to being over but maybe right at.
My premonition was correct. The fish ARE here. 2 casts later I bring in a nice fat 26”er. OK by this point I am starting to get pissed at the drizzle so I decide to head back in. The fish that I thought were there were. I am happy. Just hope the weather will be like today or better. Come Saturday I will have long johns on. Hope yall had a good time pre-fishing, because I certainly did.
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EDITED:Decided to edit the post to show that I am not a complete idiot and actually know spelling and grammar, and forgot that this was a spelling and grammar forum.
And it will not let me put my indentations.
