Peacocks Pocket Road Is Still Closed

Although Peacocks Pocket road is still closed, bank fishermen along the causeway and the open dike roads are still picking up good numbers of redfish and black drum.

Javier Cuazo and his friend Luis were good enough to send me these pics of their trip to Gator Creek Thursday morning.

 They got out early and around 8:00am Luis picked up a nice slot black drum on a live shrimp and later on, a rat redfish on a dead shrimp which was quickly released to grow up into a bull red.

Around noon they moved on to Catfish Creek and fished around an area where this crabber was picking up his cages.    Usually if there are crabs in the area, it's a good area for reds.

He said they were fishing into the wind, but he did not what they caught in that area.

Yesterday, another reader said that the reds in that area were nailing fresh dead shrimp and chunks of cut mullet and ladyfish.

In my experience, an 1 1/2" thick steak cut from a freshly caught ladyfish on a 4/0 or 5/0 Owner hook is hard to beat for big redfish.

Right now, fresh dead or live shrimp is the bait of choice for black drum.

Till I get back into town again, Tight Lines and don't forget to vote.