May 4, 2009 - Redfish save the day again.

Overnight the wind had moved from strong out of the South to strong out of the North. Such wind is not conducive to good trout fishing. With a family of four including 5 and 7 year old boys, we left Cove Harbor looking for redfish. Caught four on cut bait behind the spoil islands north of Conn Brown harbor. When the bite slowed about 9:00 AM we got a call from a friend who was catching large trout near Mud Island. I gave the customers a choice of whether to move to another spot for redfish or go all the way to Mud Island and hope the bite was still on there. We arrived at Mud Island about 10:00 to find the fish had completely quit. After an hour or two we gave up on trout and moved all the way to Dagger Island to look for more reds. We didn't find a single fish. I decided the best thing to do was move back to where we started the day. The fish were there better than before. We caught 6 more for a total of 10 redfish for the day. Several of the fish were caught on Zebco 33's and not a single hooked fish was lost. This had a lot to do with how the family paid attention and worked together to be sure each hooked fish made it into the boat. The boys were a real treat to be around. "Yes sir" to everything and they even asked permission before doing anything that might be wrong. They gave me new hope that America will still be a great country thirty years from now.