Catfish Creek Redfish

After undergoing a major surgery and getting a case of Covid that screwed up my post op schedule, I finally managed to get a line out in the water and catch a few Catfish Creek Redfish this afternoon.

I loaded two spinning rods into the truck and took Odie along with me to scout out some areas to bank fish.

I really expected this to be a scouting trip, but it was about 4:30 pm when I left the house and the beach was closing up when I got there to access the flats on the southern end of the Mosquito Lagoon.

We turned around and headed to Catfish Creek which was the only area open to vehicle traffic.

Although only one person was fishing the area, several vehicles were tooling around the unimproved dirt road checking out the scenery.

I saw an open culvert with moving water so I pulled out a Creme Paddletail bait and started pitching it around the muddy flats.

It took only four cast to get a solid hookup with a speckled sea trout of about 20 inches.  After a brief fight, I got the fish to the bank and as I was trying to figure out how to skinny down the rocks to land the fish, the hooks pulled out.  Nice release....

I continued fishing the area and continued getting hits that I kept missing.  I'm definitely out of practice.

Anyway, after a few casts I hooked into a rat redfish that I also lost at the bank.

A couple more casts and a second red was on the line that I managed to land without breaking my neck on the rocky bank.

In about 45 minutes fishing the area, I managed to miss about eight fish and land two rat redfish that were all about the same size as the one below.

Odie was getting into trouble with some prickly weeds and the bite slowed down so I left the area and headed home.

I was surprised that I got as many fish as I did form the area, but from years of experience, I've learned that a flowing culvert is often like fishing in a hatchery. 

Till next time, 

Tight Lines......