V Bay 8/24

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This is my first report so don't kill me if I leave it short. I took three colleagues out yesterday afternoon. My neighbor told me that they are killing the reds and Specs at the mouth of Fresh Water Bayou. I have never fished there but figured I would give it a shot, so we headed to Intracoastal. Stopped at Young's Grocery for Shrimp and they had none. Since two of the guys with me have never fished before I figured going without something stinky that required little work would be a bad idea. Plan changed to go catch bait then head to SW pass, it was only 1:00 and the tide was running out starting around 3. We hit the big weir on marsh island and bait was plentiful. I was tempted to stay and catch 25 lbs of shrimp. It wouldn't have taken long but the size was mixed and we had fish to catch. I went strait to a spot I have caught before on the far west side in the mouth of the pass. We dropped anchor and within 5 minutes has the 1st spec in the boat. I spend most of my time working bird nests, re-stringing, re-rigging and putting fish on the ruler but the guys had a blast. I had a chance to throw a few plastics (purple and char queen Cocahoe with char head, 3 different vudu shrimp) and they were biting them all. I haven't counted but I think we finished with about 25 or 30 specs all 12-14". Threw way more back. We caught a lot of sand/white trout too but I wasn't sure on the size restrictions do those so they went back as well. Two other boats showed up while we were there. One kept a good distance the other quietly trolled a safe distance away and was casting very close to where we were casting, but in no way affecting our fishing. We were pulling something up on almost every cast and I didn't see them land a single fish. I felt bad for them, that had to suck. They looked defeated.

If the tide and the weather allows I may have to do it again this week without the supporting cast.


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