My regular fishing buddy called me this afternoon when I was on the way home from hanging sheetrock and said lets go.....I said no, I was tired and needed a shower......I got talked into going. Got home and took a shower, loaded up some beer and sandwitches and they picked me up at 3:30. We launched at Cove Harbor and caught bait right in the harbor. Got 4-5 dozen nice finger mullet and put them in bait buckets (no live well). By the time we got to where we were going to fish, we had about 10 live mullet which we used to catch 8-9 rat reds so we fished dead mullet which worked just as well as the live ones. We caught another 8-9 rat reds and a couple of keepers. We fished about 2 1/2 hours, drank beer for about 3 1/2 hours and had a great time catching small fish...I caught one 24" red that had a piece of line coming out his throat just behind his gills. He must have broken off from someone, the hook worked out and rusted off and the line was just hanging. When I cleaned him, he had about a foot of braided line in his gullet and about 2" hanging out. We had the fish cleaned and the beer cans thrown away and I was home just before 8PM. Not many in the box but a great day on the bay.
We fished a cut coming off Estes Flats on a falling tide.
We fished a cut coming off Estes Flats on a falling tide.
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