***Official Redfish Report Thread***

 Thanks for all the red info  Looking like tomorrow is going to be a grand day for fishing. 

GOT TO TAKE MY GRANDDAUGHTER FOR HER FIRST TRIP OUT ON THE BOAT AND HER FIRST TRIP FOR DRUM THINK SHELL GO AGAIN???????????

 I THINK SO TOO

HERE IS MY WIFE WITH HER FIRST DRUM OF THE NITE

THEN MY GRANDDAUGHTER TORI WITH HER FIRST EVER DRUM  

 AND THE WIFE AGAIN BEFORE WE HAD TO BEAT THE STORM IN TONITE. 

 ALL FISH WERE CAUGHT ON EITHER LIVE MANHADDEN OR MULLETS

 TIGHT LINES AND SCREAMIN DRAG TO YA ALL AND BE CAREFUL OUT THERE.

SZEXTREME,

 BROTHER GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY THE REDS DOWN THERE,THE FISHIN FOR THEM THERE ISNT MUCH DIFFERNT THAN HERE SO TIGHT LINES AND SCREAMIN DRAGS TO YOU MY FRIEND.

 AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO KEEP US FREE   

SZEXTREME,

 THANKS MY FRIEND ILL TRY TO DO MY BEST WITH IT FOR YA

SZEXTREME,

Paulg, I saw you and your lady heading toward your drum hole Sunday as I was leaving a nearby creek. 





Edited by Mal_Pais - 08 August 2007 at 4:17pm

WELL, WELL, WELL,
   ME AND MY SON FINALLY GOT OUT ON THE WATER AFTER I SPENT THE DAY YESTURDAY REPAIRING MY MOTOR SHAFT AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME OUT THERE
  WE HIT THE CREEK ABOUT 8 AM AND CAUGHT SOME BAIT AND HEADED DOWN TO OUR FIRST HOOLE WHERE I MANAGED A 14 INCH FLOUNDER ON A PIECE OF CUT BAIT ON A CORK,LET IT GO TO GET BIGGER AND WE DIDNT HAVE A CAMERA ON BOARD AT THE TIME,WELL WE DID BUT NO BATTERYS IN HIS CAMERA
 AFTER THIS NEXT FISH WE DID GO GET A CAMERA WITH BATTERYS,THIS BAD BOY OR GIRL WAS CAUGHT ON A CHEWED UP MULLET THAT HAD BEEN SOAKING FOR ABOUT 25 MINUTES AND IS MY SONS BIGGEST DRUM TO DATE HE STILL HAS TO TOP ME NOT JUST TIE ME LIKE THIS ONE DID
 

 
 then he managed this nice 22 1\2 incher

Tim, I am enjoying this thread and hope it keeps on going. I wasn't able to fish this weekend, and my plans to improve my yak cart went kaput also. I am thinking about giving it another try this coming weekend if my wife is OK with it. Not sure about that yet.  You have so many nice fish. Bet that granddaugher is ready to go again by now.

Nice fish Skip!  Don't give up the casting.  Nothing beats the feel of thinking you're hung on an oyster only to feel it start moving. ...... except seeing them roll on a topwater plug.

Went out on my father-in-law's Coastal Skiff Saturday. We were drifting in the White Oak for some flatboys, no luck there.  He was dragging a bottom rig with a shrimp on one hook and a mullet on the other, when he hooked up on doubles... 2 pups, one about 14" and the other was 21". He smoked me, all I could manage was 2 small pups..

That is an amazing pic Mal_Pais.  Between last Sat and Sun I must have witnessed at least 25 tails and countless pushes and wakes.  Frustrating because I could only get one to bit. 

 HAD THE HONOR OF FINALLY GETTING MY COUSIN DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS AND FINALLY OUT FOR SOME RED DRUM FISHING 101
  HE (JEFF) NEVER FISHED FOR RED DRUM BEFORE BUT IS AN AVID FISHERMAN FROM UP NORTH WHO HAS MANY VERY LARGE TROUT (MOUNTAIN) AND SALMON FROM UPPER NEW YORK AS WELL AS LARGE MOUTH BASS UNDER HIS BELT AND THOUGHT HE WAS UP FOR WHAT A RED COULD DO TO A FISHERMAN AND HIS GEAR
 LUCKILY I LET HIM USE MY GEAR INSTEAD OF HIS,HAD I NOT HE'D BE GOING HOME WITH PIECES OF GEAR INSTEAD OF WHOLE GEAR
 WE HIT THE CREEK TUESDAY NITE AROUND 8 PM AND CAUGHT ENOUGH BAIT ON THE FIRST NET TO FISH THE NITE AWAY OR SO I THOUGH,I HAD PLENTY OF MENHADEN WITH THE FIRST NET AND AT THE FIRST SPOT WE FISH THE DRUM CHOOSE TO THUMB THERE NOSES AT IT,SO I HAD GOTTEN A FEW MULLETS AS WELL AND DECIDED TO MOVE AND TRY THEM ELSE WHERE.
 NEXT HOLE WE FISHED PROVED TO BE A GOOD CHOICE SINCE THE FIRST LINE IN PRODUCED A VIOLENT STRIKE BUT WENT UN ANSWERED BY OUR NEW DRUM FISHERMAN FROM THE NORTH
 AFTER WHAT SEEMED LIKE A LIFE TIME HE MANAGED TO FINALLY CATCH THE FISH THAT HAD BEEN HITTING HIM AND HE THOUGHT WOW WHAT A FIGHT IT WAS A 17 3\4 DRUM AND I TOLD HIM THAT WAS A BABY AND IF HE THOUGH THAT ONE FOUGHT WAIT TILL HE GOT AHOLD OF HIS SISTER OR MOTHER
 SHRIMPERS CAME BY TWICE SO WE MOVED FIGURING IT WAS A LOST CAUSE WHERE WE WERE AND MAN WHAT DIFFERENCE IT PROVED TO BE,THE TIDE WAS COMING IN AND LOOKED LIKE IT WAS GONNA BE A FLOOD TIDE SO WE SET UP ON A FISHY LOOKING BANK AND STARTED WITH LIVE MULLET,10 MINUTES GOES BY AND HIS FIRST ROD DIPS AND COMES BACK UP THEN MY ROD DOES THE SAME ,HE LOOKS AT ME AND ASKS WHAT IS THAT?
 I TELL HIM ITS A DRUM TASTING THE BAITS BEFORE IT DECIDES ON WHICH ONE IT WANTS,5 MINUTES GOES BY AND NOTHING  SO I TELL HIM IT DOESN'T LIKE THE TASTE OF OUR LIVE MINNOWS AND I STARTED TO REAL ONE IN AND HE ASK WHAT I'M DOING?
  I SAID ALOT OF THE TIME IF THEY DON'T TAKE IT ALIVE YOU BRING IT IN AND CUT THE TAIL OFF AND TOSS IT BACK OUT AND THEY'LL TAKE IT LIKE THAT,HE SAYS NO WAY, I SAID YES IF THEY DON'T WANT IT ALIVE THEN KILL IT AND SERVE IT PROPER AND YOU'LL HAVE A GREAT FIGHT,TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT ,I RE-CASTED IT OUT AND SET IT IN FRONT OF HIM AND BEFORE THE ROD WAS ALL THE WAY IN THE HOLDER A 25 1\2 INCHER WAS SCREAMING HIS ROD AND HE WAS AMAZED AT THE PERSISTENCE AND POWER OF THESE FISH
 NEEDLESS TO SAY HE IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE HOOKED ON DRUM ,HE MANAGED 4 OR FIVE DRUM FOR THE NITE BEFORE HE DECIDED HE HAD ENOUGH AND THE DRUM WON FOR NOW BY TIRING HIM OUT  BUT WE ENDED THE TRIP WITH A SWEET 26 1\2 INCHER FOR ME THAT NITE AND IT WAS ALL DONE AND SAID BY 11:30 PM
 ENOUGH OF MY BABBLING ONTO THE PICKS SO ENJOY HERE THEY ARE IN THE ORDER THEY WERE CAUGHT

 

My 2 cents worth

Found 2 schools today, mostly undersized fish, but we found a few 20" reds.  Gulp natural 4" was the bait of choice. 

We had about the same luck this weekend around the haystacks.  All between 17 and 20 inches.  Couldn't get one to touch a top water plug.