How about this Red!

How about this Red!

Report Date: November 22, 2004

Well were do I start. This was one great week for the weather and the fishing. We started out each morning a little cold with the wind chill while running in the boat but it wasn?t too bad. When 9 am came around you were back in a tee shirt. The fishing was as good as the weather. Unfortunately I think we are starting to get to that time of year where it?s going to get colder. Hope fully we will have a few weeks left.

I will start with the Snook fishing. The fish are starting to move back to the rivers and most of the fishing that we are doing is on the flats that are surrounding mouths of the rivers. This

time of year the fish are staging in these places and feed real well getting prepared for the winter. When you find a good school of fish you can work them pretty hard and usually catch a number of fish and some real good size fish. The bait still has been real small but the fish are eating it. You just have to work a little harder to put the baits in front of them. The water temp is about 72 degrees which is a good temp. When the water temp gets below 60 degrees you have a lot harder time getting the Snook to bite. The past week we had days where we caught over 30 Snook in a short amount of time. We had a lot of really nice fish. The Snook of the week was a 29 inch fish, but there was a lot of fish that were around that size.

Then we have the Red fish I got a real good story of a great Red fish that we

caught this week. As the weather cools down the Red fish start spreading out on the flats more. The big schools often seem to get a little more scarce. We usually do better in the cooler months on the real low tides. This is because all the fish that are on the flats in the bays are falling off the flats into the deeper water. So the fish are more gathered. This is when you want to be fishing on the edge of the flats where you would usually be catching the Red fish. In the last week most of the fish that we caught were on the higher water. We had a few days where we caught maybe 10 Red fish. Most of these Red fish we caught were mixed in with the Snook. We had a few times where we were fishing in the same hole and caught a grand slam which was a Snook, Red fish, Trout, and Flounder. Catching them all in the same hole was pretty neat. To get back to the story of the Red fish of the week or really of the year. Lets start from the beginning. We had a full boat we had 5 people fishing and we were catching a lot of Snook, Trout, and a few Red fish when all a sudden this huge Red fish rolled on the bait I could not believe my eyes I knew it was a big fish. He first hooked the fish and it was

putting up a great fight about 75 feet from the boat. It was just rolling and more or less playing around. Probably the Red fish didn?t even know he was hooked. When all a sudden the fish made a huge run. It must have taken about 150 feet of line. I decided that we were probably not going to be able to turn the fish so I tided a buoy to the anchor and let it go. Then we were on the chase. After about 15 minutes we managed to land a 41 inch Red fish What a bull Red. It was awesome! To say no more just take a look at that fish in the picture.

As the weather starts to get colder, we are going to start to do some near shore fishing for Grouper, and Snapper. When the water temp starts to drop the fish offshore start moving in closer. Some of the fish that were way offshore will move in to closer reefs. Most of the trips that we run offshore this time of year we try to stay inside of 12 miles ,which on a nice day is just a short ride. To see more come visit www.castawaychartersinc.com.

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