Just thought I’d share a picture of my trip to the causeway yesterday. Had a 2 man limit on the trout in about 5 hours. Had a damn good time.

Nice work. Live bait?

Yeah live shrimp and big croakers on the reds. We lost several more big reds.

Some sho nuff studs. Off the bank or in a boat?

Boat.

Jealous. Save me one of those half shells!

Great haul.

Excellent.

We fished all weekend in Louisiana, less successful. Unless you judge success by killing horse flies

Sweet! Man i need to bring my boat home from camp lol. My boys would love catching a limit on Specs, and battling some reds...

The reds weren’t thick like they were two weeks ago. Just kept a couple free lined croakers out of the back while we were speck fishing. I did the same thing two weeks ago by myself.

This was two weeks ago on a solo trip in the same exact spot

Nice

Dang good eating right there

Looks like a great trip. We had a decent trip on Saturday. Everyone was out of shrimp by the time we made it to the launch and pogies were in deep water. Managed to find enough for the kids to use and one caught the winning slot redfish in the Christ The King tournament, so it was a good day.

Congrats on some good fish.

I want to know where I can find these charity tournaments down there. I don’t care about winning anything but I love a little friendly competition for a good cause. Shirley’s had bait at 1pm and went back for more around 3:30 pm and they still had plenty. . We caught the croakers ourselves. I believe artificial would have worked fine but I don’t change from a pattern that I find working. My buddy came on the boat rigged with a 1/0 j hook and I was using a size 8 treble. I threw 7 in the box in very short order to his none. He changed his hook and Started catching. I don’t know why they were that picky but they sure were. We had 12 when we ran out of skrimp went and grabbed more and finished the limit. We threw back maybe 6-8 legal trout waiting for 18”+ on the second bait round. We saw a few birds diving around us and very few pogies flipping no where near how it usually is.

Just thought I’d update my thread with this seasons pics so far. Ain’t near about through. All the mangos were 12-14”. And the biggest red was 32”. Hope to have some more pics Monday.



And these were from fishing with my brother in law and sister in law, wife and a friend of the family out of Johns pass near Tampa Florida. We were on my brother in laws boat. We caught 11 yellow tail snapper, 8 mangos, 1 American red and 1 3/4 kings.


Wife is on the left.
And finally my own first snook and a couple first inshore grouper ain’t much to them but considering it was inside the pass during summer it was pretty cool. These were on my boat.

yall gonna be eating good