On the water at daylight. First stop 2 trout 18" and 20" on Lemonhead and those were the last two trout caught. Hit a beach side reef and didn't even get a bump so we pulled the boat out of the water and went to the back. We caught several fish in the bay just not the right kind. The bay in BSL is full of Ladyfish right now. I did catch one nice flounder about 3 pounds in the bay over by the RR bridge on a Magneto Matrix. Also caught the beast below on a white with red head Skitterwalk. He hit my bait like 6 times on top before he hooked up so it was a pretty impressive and exciting strike sequence. We had the boat stuck with the stick and he almost spooled me before Willie could get the stick pulled. It ended up dragging the boat almost 300 yds out in the middle of the bay before I was able to get him to the Boga. It had a massive girth on it and was over 30 pounds by the Boga. We didn't take a fish home today. Not sure where the trout are right now but I know they weren't where we were this morning. Beautiful weather, beautiful water, so all in all it was a really enjoyable morning on the water. Willie kind of chopped some of it's tail off in the first pic.
Man I want to get a hold of one of those jacks just to get spooled. Glad to hear thr weather is nice my office doesn't have windows. I think the trout are hiding under the ladyfish eating their scraps.
Found similar over the weekend in biloxi and ocean springs. Just no trout around even though bait was thick. Haven't been to the islands for almost three weeks so I'm Jonesing
That Jack is a serious conversation piece for sure!
I had my nephews out from TX July 4th weekend. I took them out that Monday and we tied into one. I had the boys take turns on it and it actually took the reel's line all the way out to the knot before we got him turned. They are still yammering about it.
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