by Lee Padrick, September 22, 2013
Air temp: 70
Water temp: 75
Wind: Light, variable
Tide: High
Technique: Popping corks, gold spoons, topwater lures
Dwayne and I went out and hit a handful of spots to try and catch some redfish. At our first stop, I had a blowup. Dwayne immediately threw a popping cork and put two fish in the boat. Kept moving along a marshbank, and I had another fish shake a topwater.
We ran to another area, and I caught an undersized red on a topwater. Then we checked out a spot we haven't fished much this year. For good reason. Nothing going on.
by Lee Padrick, September 15, 2013
Air temp: 65
Water temp: 75
Wind: NE at 10 mph
Tide: Falling
Technique: Popping corks, soft plastics (weedless and on jigheads), topwater lures
Dwayne and I had a long day on the water. We launched at Shell Rock Landing before sunrise and checked a few spots for drum for an upcoming tournament. No fish and/or luck at our first two stops (except for two 18-20" flounder). Then we fished a spot that Dwayne had caught a few reds yesterday.
Dwayne sticks a small one on a popping cork, but the fish spit the hook on the way to the boat. Then he hooks another and lands it. I had a blowup on topwater, then I hook one when we come around a marsh point. We fished down a bank, but the dropping tide convinced us to put the boat back on the trailer and head to Morehead City, hoping to catch a few trout on the rising tide.
We launch the boat, run to a nearby spot, and Dwayne hooks up on his first cast. Its going to be a good day. Unfortunately, he had hooked a lizard fish. He hooked up on a ladyfish soon afterward. No trout or drum, but I did catch another flounder in the 16" range.
A few more cooler mornings and some NE winds, and I think the trout bite will start up for the fall.
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- Lee Padrick, September 11, 2013
Air temp: 70
Water temp: 78
Wind: Calm, variable
Tide: Rising
Technique: Popping corks, topwater lures
Dwayne and I fished a few different spots, caught a few fish at each stop.
At the first stop, Dwayne caught a nice red on a topwater lure at sunrise. Made for a great picture (shown below). I had a topwater blowup, and tossed a popping cork with a Salty Bay soft plastic to the spot where the fish showed interest in my plug. A couple twitches and I was on.
We fished down the bank, looking for a school of feeding fish without success. We ran the boat to the next stop, a shallow water bay with a grass bed bottom. As we moved down the bank, we found a number of feeding fish. I tossed a topwater, immediately hooked up, only to have the feisty red shake the hook.
We grabbed our phones to shoot video, and took turns catching fish. I hooked another on a topwater lure and landed it. Then Dwayne followed up with a popping cork fish further down the bank.
Made another quick run, and I had a topwater strike. Popping cork didn't land the fish, so we began to think it was a speckled trout. A few casts of the topwater later, and I land a 18" trout. Then we moved east about 2 miles for our final stop, a huge grassbed flat. No luck at this spot, so we called it a morning.
Video of the morning:
PC: Every Day
Mobile: Every Day
- Lee
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