ON A REDFISH ROLL

3-28-2012--Two fishers limited during a half day outing this morning. They had only caught one undersized redfish by 10 AM when we moved to the spot I have been finding limits for a week now. The fish been starting to feed after noon but I decided to try earlier because my crew could only fish 4 hours. Sure enough the reds were there. Atone time they had three mid slot size reds on at one time. We just left one of the rods in the holder until the first fish was landed. One red took a small crab, one took a cut menhadden while all the rest were caught on cut mullet.

Trout are starting to show up with the better tides. I would have tried for trout today if we had more time. Next trip I'll probably start off looking for trout.

MORE REDFISH

3-27-2012--Had two fishermen today. We started out drifting for trout and reds but caught no keepers. There was very little bait where I have been getting reds so we went to another area that had lots of bait. They caught 3 keeper reds there and released several smaller ones. About 12:30 we went to the same spot where my fishermen got limits three days in a row last week and at that time there were lots of mullet there. The fishermen quickly caught three more reds for their limit and released some keepers.

3-24-2012--Since the redfish bite has been starting after 12 noon we went for sheepshead first. My five fishermen caught 10 large sheepshead and 4 black drum up to 28 inches in length. We moved to the flats for redfish about 12:30 PM. I took them to the exact same spot where I have limited clients the past 2 days. Today made it three days in a row when they caught 15 nice redfish. Cut skipjack seemed to be the bait of choice for the redfish. We're using skipjack that I froze last summer when they were plentiful.

REDFISH IN THE FLATS

3-22-2012--Fished for redfish today. The day started slow with one redfish early and another about 10 AM. The other 4 came quickly between noon and 1 PM. They had a double when the last fish came in so one lucky fish got to go free while the other went in the box. We tried perch but did not get a single bite on them. All the bites came on frozen cut menhadden and skip jack.

SHEEPSHEAD AND BLACK DRUM

March 11-14, 2012. Been too busy to post to the blog. Had a good run on catch and release oversized black drum and large sheepshead for the first three days this week and then the winds came up enough to prevent us getting to the sheepshead. The oversized black drum seem to be larger this year with most being between 40 and 46 inches.
Clients caught so many sheepshead that the 96 quart ice chest wouldn't hold them all. We've been using the live well for the overflow. They also caught a few trout.

WEDNESDAY AVAILABLE FOR CHARTER

I just had a cancellation for Wednesday March 14, 2012, due to a family emergency. I now have that one day open during Spring Break. Please call or email me if you want a charter for Wednesday March 14.

Capt Ron Coulston
dba Ron's Guide Service

fishing@ronsrockportfishing.com

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