Capt. Brooks And Fishing On A Winter’s Day
After some practice lessons, my two clients that couldn’t cast worth a darn at first, improved enough to attempt to hit the fishing holes and hook into some fish, for my first evening fishing trip of the week.
The strong southeast winds were approaching with the front at around 7pm this evening, and a bunch of sea grass was uprooted and floating everywhere, making it hard to retrieve baits and messing with their retrieve. The grass bed had floated over many of the best places and hiding lots of redfish and a few speckled trout. Both species were following the grass covered lures but acted skittish and wouldn’t take the bait! The clients anxiously watched, continuously casting for the fish that wouldn’t bite.
Eventually we had to leave the area, which was sand and grass beds around 18-30′ deep. We headed off to areas more protected from the wind. We found some areas with the same bottom structure and depth, but had scattered oyster shell and not as much floating grass. There were not as many redfish here, but the size was better overall.
Because the water was too clear to throw darker jigs, we opted for a Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jig head, and decided to jig the baits slowly up and down to see if we got a strike. It didn’t take long to see them striking at the bait and the clients saw them start following the rig because the water was so clear, but they were retrieving it too fast to hook the redfish. Once I told them to relax and let the bait get in front of the fish, wait until you feel the strike and THEN set the hook, and shortly after that, the redfish started sucking their fishing lures down like they were candy.
Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could have gotten away!
So then we decided to try for speckled trout in another area, since we had done so well with the redfish. A channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds provided cover and we tried the same action except the color was sandier here. One client rigged with a Root Beer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, were getting all the hits, and there were trout to 21″ and plenty of them.
While there were not as many of the larger trout, which were lying in holes on top of the flats, they were some good-looking fish. When we checked out the drop off, it actually had more fish that were smaller, but keepers were holding there. The clients ended up boating 14 speckled trout and the action was hot and heavy, making it a great 3.5 hour outing!
I like the new TruLoc jigheads, the hooks are good quality and sharp!!! We never lost any fishing lures because of the hooks, and only lost the tails on two lures because of redfish sucking them into their crunchers. You just can’t help that, no worm is exempt from that kind of smashing.
Captain Robert Brooks is a licensed fishing guide who specializes in wadefishing for big speckled trout and redfish on the Gulf Coast using salt water fishing hooksss. Robert recommends that you try out some fishing hookss from Brown Lures for your next fishing trip.
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