We worked the protected shoreline with the goal of hitting the second set of lakes about 2 miles to the north. I brought my fly rod this morning with the hopes of casting at some reds. The stretch between the sets of lakes held individual reds somewhat tailing. They would run into the grass, attack shrimp, and then come back out. I had two reds hooked up but I didn't get a good hookset. However, third time was the charm.
Caught on color variation of this shrimp. I took some more shots at reds with the fly rod, but missed or spooked all the other reds I targeted. We started to work our way up the slough into the targeted lakes. As soon as we turned the corner we came up to 8 footish gator. We turned around and drift fished the outside.
We entered the first set of back lakes on our way back in. I was able to pick up another red blind casting into pockets of the back sloughs.
As 1 o'clock approached we started to drift the outside the main portion of Cavasso creek. I picked up a slot trout out here. Our group stringer tally was 3 reds and a trout. (A red for Ron, and two reds/1 trout for myself)
A helper when cleaning the fish.
The rest of our group (Dale, Andy, Whit and William) made it into Rockport just as we were returning to the cabin from fishing. Tradition calls for a kick off dinner. This year we made Cioppino with cod, crab, shrimp, and mussels.
Another tradition is bringing a bottle of booze to share with the group. Here's a small selection we enjoyed the first night.
I'll add the meteorological stuff later, but here's the GPS track.
