Insane Day at McFaddin!

[HtXfisherMan8706]

Well well well I woke up this morning to a breezy and gloomy, cloudy day, and made my way to the spot with an even winder experience, and as expected I was greeted with a flat beach and blow out tide. It was an awesome day to say the least at the ol' McFaddin refuge. Met up with Cudagreg, TxTitan and his buddy Martin at around 8:30 9 and was the first on the water. I made my way about 75-100 yards off the beach and anchor up where I saw bait running. BTW there was ton's of mullet. I was soon joined by the rest of the gang with nothing to show since my launch. Martin anchored up a little shallower than me while Cuda and Titan headed out to I am assuming about 12 ft. I was sitting in about 10 I would say.
As me and Martin are sitting out there we are crossed by several schools of feeding reds with no bites. But there soon after Martin hooks into one before even me! and the rest is history. We must have been run into by atleast 5 or 6 feeding frenzies, talking about 100s of reds bustin bait with backs out of the water and tails slappin everything. AWESOME! I had never seen them like this. I soon ran out of bait and made my way in to reup. on my way out I see the bait closer to shore and decide to troll out to my anchor I left floating... BAM fish on. I get 'im in and go retrieve my anchor to fish the shallower area (8ft). There I finish my day with 5 more reds to make it an even 20 and I make my way back in to meet up with the guys on the beach as they had went in before me.
So here we are sitting and drinkning some brews, admiring God's blessing when we see lots and lots of nervous water about 50 ft wide and a football field length of shoreline long cruising our way. Then boom feeding frenzy. We all chuck out lines and soon hook up, not even 50ft from shore. INSANE. What a day. Best day ever for me btb. Here are some pics. I am sure Titan and Cudagreg will chime in I hope with some pics too. Get it while the gettin' is good.

Arrival


One of the first prolly number 5 or so

[HtXfisherMan8706]

Shark shook


Draggin close all day


Courtesy of Martin

[HtXfisherMan8706]

Everyone gettin em

[Hemi Fisher]

Congrats guys. I had friends out there last week after the front when the reds were blowing up in the wade gut. I'm sure that is an awesome sight.

[Mythman]

Congrats on a great day at McFaddin.

We all had the same experience last week and it does have a tendency to cause an adrenalin rush!

[Pipeliner2]

Well done Guys!!!!!! great day and glad y'all got on them. Love seeing those schools of big reds close to the beach.

I am thinking of playing hooky tomorrow and getting down there myself. But the forecasts are kinda mixed. Oh well, may just go down and surf fish for a while if nothing else.

[TxTitan]

Well said Bobby! And happy birthday. Like the man said, it was a feeding frenzy allll dayyyy long. My second time out there with zero expectations, I was blowin away. And Memphis(jeff) where you at?! It truly was a glorious day, 24 hours of no sleep and I'm out of words so ill just post pictures and later edit a few videos, but can not edit out the French. Also, Greg we will fish again soon because I have your paddle!!! Aaajhhahaha!!! And thanks for dinner and beverages. Ill pack lighter next time too.

[evintx]

Awesome!!!!! I wish this desk didn't need a jockey during the week. I hope conditions on Saturday are the same, although the weather looks suspect.

[TxTitan]

Fish

[TxTitan]

Fish

[huntingarcher]

Another great day at McFaddin nice pics !

[rod dawg]

Sweet trip and glad you got to experience the crashing of bullreds. Fun times.

[YAK'N AGGIE]

Duuuuuude I am so jealous right now. Gotta get down there ASAP...

[Powerman]

Awesome report! Glad you all had so much fun. I'm watching the weather for next Wednesday with some friends if anyone wants to meet up...

[flykool25]

That is awesome to catch feeding bull reds from the shore after a good day of fishing. dangggg I missed it. makes me want to go BTB soon . thanks for the report.

[HtXfisherMan8706]

It was nice meetin you out there Titan with ol' boy Martin. And it was a blast sharing the shoreline with you once again Cudagreg. Can't wait to do it all over again.

[HtXfisherMan8706]

Congrats on a great day at McFaddin.

We all had the same experience last week and it does have a tendency to cause an adrenalin rush!

Yes MM it is quite the rush indeed. I swear I felt like a kid on Christmas morning! Words cannot utter the feeling.

Sweet trip and glad you got to experience the crashing of bullreds. Fun times.

Yessir fun times it was intense.

Duuuuuude I am so jealous right now. Gotta get down there ASAP...

Dude get down here haha.

Awesome report! Glad you all had so much fun. I'm watching the weather for next Wednesday with some friends if anyone wants to meet up...

Thanks bro, I am sure they will be there. Gonna be chilliy next week and once again flat flat flat on Swellinfo and many other sites.

That is awesome to catch feeding bull reds from the shore after a good day of fishing. dangggg I missed it. makes me want to go BTB soon . thanks for the report.

You're telling me, I still can't believe it. You know those moments where you look forward to the memories. Yesterday was it haha! Everything was perfect. New boat, no waves, fish guh lordo, beer with a fire and a few good men, and on top of that it was my birthday and I got paid while fishing. God is good boys.

[cudagreg]

Here is my addition to the insanity. My day started getting go out after HTXfisherman. like he said it was a gloomy day and other than a strong wind out of the northeast that made the water pretty nasty it was perfect conditions.

i went out a little further than everyone else looking for some clearer water but that wasnt happening so i just dropped and anchor and rigged up. I was very excited not only cause i havent been out since July but i also had my brand new okuma cedros baitfeeder. it was awesome by the way. before im able to get another line in the water the clicker goes off. i leave half a mullet on the other line sitting on top of the water. I pull up a damn gaftop as the first fish on my new rig!!! while dealing with the slime ball the rod bows over and i have a smaller blacktip on the line. was worried to put feet in water after a shark came so close like that. within the next 30 min i catch the first bull of the day

after this guy i was hooking up at most every 30 min with plenty of gaftop speckled in.

[cudagreg]

more pics

[cudagreg]

here is txtitan with one

this was the only gray one of the day, al the others were lit up gold. all in all i caught 13 bulls from the yak then two more from the beach when we saw the feeding frenzy happen. it was an amazing day my new rig got a work out and performed beautifully, all the fish i caught were big stubborn mean ones who fought long and hard. none were under 35" and i had 3 or 4 over 40". it was one of my best days out there along with some fun guys. hoping we have some some sunny days soon with same conditions so its doesnt seem so cold with the wind but ill take the same results any day regardless

[SkunkKing]

Don't forget the miller lite!

[cudagreg]

Don't forget the miller lite!

we didnt believe me there was plenty to go around

[YAK'N AGGIE]

That's it, I'll be down in 5 hours.


These photos are making me itch. I gotta get in on this bull red run before it's over. My first time ever BTB was for bulls and I haven't targeted them since. That needs to change. I'll be in Corpus next weekend for Sharkathon... November 1st McFaddin what's up?!

[cudagreg]

i'll be in st. croix that weekend chasing tarpon, bonefish, snook, and all kinds of reef species robert

[Troutless]

It sound like a awesome day at McFaddin and a lot fun! Glad you guys got a Insane day.