LOW WATER BLACK DRUM

12-13-2010--The tide this morning was about as low as it gets. I first took my client to a shoreline slough that is normally very good on a falling tide but even in the slough the water was too low to hold fish, We went back to the dock at Saint Charles Bay and loaded the boat for a trip to the Conn Brown ramp at Aransas Pass. My plan was to fish the deep channels where redfish go when the water is low. We used fresh dead shrimp for bait. Right away my client caught his first redfish followed by more redfish and black drum too numerous to count. I had out 2 baited rods for him and quite often there would be two fish on at once. He would land one and then while I unhooked and released it he would remove the other rod from the holder and land another fish. If I got the first rod back in the water before we netted the second fish he would often have another fish before I got the last one unhooked and released. After tiring of catching black drum and redfish we drifted with artifical lures for trout and ended up with 5 or 6 speckled trout. We used gulp jerk shad for the trout.