We were a bit early for the incoming tide, but still had a decent outgoing flow at the causeway for a time, likely assisted by the SW wind at 10 or so. Fish action was quite good, but mostly small trout. I was getting a lot of hits on my jerk shad, catching a few throw-backs. At one point I got hits on every cast into one well lighted area! The jerk shad took quite a beating with all the action.
After a time the outgoing flow stopped and by the causeway gauge the incoming had already started, but this incoming flow was tough to distinguish due to the wind blown flow from the opposite direction. We took this break to move on to Tiki. We found the same type of small trout action at both the outside lights and inside lights at the Tiki canals.
Finally, when the incoming flow really got kicked in there was an obvious change in the fish activity and more aggressive feeding. And finally we saw some redfish feeding in the lights. As I approached one of these lights I saw a large fish dart across the surface chasing some bait toward the dock while others continued to circle. I cast across this area and soon had a nice hook up to what could only be a red, by the way it pulled and pulled. The drag was a bit light for this size of fish due to all the small trout action, but the area mostly had bulkheads so there was not much structure it could get into, so I let it run as it wanted to. Eventually I pulled in a nice 28” red!
- 28" red
- Some reds were small
- 16" trout plus the red
Plus, we ended the outing with the great view of the crescent moon rising along with Venus!
- Crescent moon and Venus
