Gabriela has fished with me before, the last time with her companion David. The first trip we started off a bit slowly with an occasional trout here and finally a redfish there, but eventually got on the redfish in a big way. In true Ladylike fashion Gabriela out fished David by about 3 fish to 1, it sometimes happens. On my boat it happens quite often if I have my way
sorry, David… He’s never really forgiven me I fear!
More recently Gabriela joined me again, solo as David was unable to make this particular date. We missed you pal and so did the fish.
Stop 1 put us on 2 schools of slot reds and she scored her first red of the morning after I was able to search them out in the chocolate milk colored waters the mullet were stirring up. A quick pic and back in the river it went and some more searching we did. The next hour produced 3 more hook-ups, but only 1 more boated redfish.
The dirty waters in this area made keeping tabs on the fish difficult at best, but they ate the Exude RT Slugs in all white without hesitation once they were located and the bait presented to them.
We decided a move was in order, cleaner water was my hope and I knew more reds and possibly some black drum were schooling to the north of our current location. Boy, was this a good decision…
The next 2 ½ hours were every anglers dream! Gabriela stayed busy with catching black drum. Her first blackie on a white spoon the rest on live shrimp rigged with a circle hook. How many did she catch? I don’t honestly know, I remember counting number 9 and from there it’s anyone’s guess. Probably a couple of more, the fished ranged in weight from 5 to 10 pounds and 4 were invited home to dinner.
The best part of the trip, other than Gabriela’s very cool company, was no other boats encroached upon us as we were obviously wreaking havoc upon these fish. Several went by us seemingly oblivious to our antics or Gabriela’s laughter.
