| After the morning hunt, Joe & I set out in search of fish - speckled trout and redfish. The week before the hunt, there was a Tropical Storm in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida that produced high northeast winds all week. We did not think we were going to be able to fish in the Gulf because of high seas. However, when he looked out, we saw that the winds had died down and the Gulf was calm. As we drifted into the Gulf we started casting. Joe was using a plastic minnow and I was using dead shrimp on a hook. It didn't take 5 minutes before I had hooked a big red - WOW! Joe was using light tackle and 8 lb. test line looking for speckled trout, but the Reds were hungry. At one time, we thought Joe was going to lose all his line on one fish, but we were able to land every fish we hooked and every one of them were redfish. I caught the biggest one weighing in at 13 lbs. 10 ounces (pictured below), which I released. We kept several nice eating-sized fish, then headed offshore to fish the rigs. |
