Posted By Kris/ In Castaway Lodge Fishing / Sunday, April 1, 2012

Movers & Shakers, Shell Trout & Grass Reds

Starting the day in between tides has been a theme for about the last week and a half. There isn't much you can do about the tide calendar when eager anglers are itching to hit it at break light. Wind pops early have garred up things leaving us with ugly water and little water movement. Sometimes you can fight through the conditions that pen things to a more positive movement later in the day and sometimes you can't. Check my last post for "Portfolio Additions: Daily Reads & Plays" for some strategy here. On Friday I had a window to slide out of the back country onto the big water with Capt. Chris Cady for a look at Trout water. What a great morning with winds light and water in great shape. We found Trout pretty much everywhere we looked ranging from just keepers on up into the low 20's.

Yesterdays higher winds early had things off to a good start in the back country and a slow start on big water. Then things flip flopped as winds laid mid-day with Trout coming to hand from improving water conditions and broader structure opening for a play. Shell keeps yielding some decent Trout but grass continues holding better fish. Grass always offers the chance of stumbling into knee buckling Redfish and Black Drum while hunting Trout down.

Shell can be one dimensional at times working the deeper drops looking for Trout. If you can catch the right angle on cresting shell, fire the offerings in tight on breaking water windward for jail breaking opportunities featuring a mixture of Trout, Drum, Redfish, and garbage can lid size Sheepshead. This is best played with live shrimp under a popping cork. Adjust leader depth to keep from hanging up every two seconds and don't work the cork away from the backbone of shell too far. Keep it in tight to breaking water and look for a paystreak.

Jail Break:
This is a mid-coast term referencing a technique of fishing the windward side of shell reefs in typically higher winds. The "jail break" refers to the variety of species with stripes including Black Drum and Sheepshead that will frequently bend a rod along with Redfish and Trout". A mixed bag of all the above coming to the boards leaves no doubts that the anglers have been "jail breaking". Capt. Danny Adams Sr. of Rockport may have been the father of perfecting this technique in San Antonio and other bays. That legacy has flowed down through the generations and remains a go to at times to this day.

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We hope you had a great weekend, we look forward to starting the week off with a bang as we welcome long time guests from the little creamery town with too many cows.

Capt. Kris Kelley
Castaway Lodge
1-888-618-4868
www.seadriftbayfishing.com

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