Tagged and Released.

We hit the "secret spot" again this past Friday. I ended up empty handed, but D landed this really nice 32" spot. She had been previously tagged, but he'll report her ID to DNR so they can track her location. Not that it matters, but you get a free T-Shirt out of the deal too. This fish was landed, again, with a root beer colored tube jig, and it ran out damn near a full spool and took some real work to revive once it finally gave in. He had to drag her out to deeper water to get her moving again, but she eventualy swam off under her own power. Not ten minutes later he landed another, slightly larger one. I wasn't so lucky. I spooked one with a bad cast, and had some poor casting attempts at others. This sight fishing for Reds takes some skill, and I'm begining to think that I have very little of what skills are required. I'll keep trying, and will keep you posted on my progress.

Big Red !

Thanks to a coworker who didn't mind sharing his "secret spot", I landed this 26'' tailing spot friday night. I havent had that much fun in years, great company, great fishing, just an all around awesome time. I understand the reasons people closely gaurd their prized fishing spots, but for those of us lucky enough to be included in the circle of trust, the rewards are tremendous. I'd love to tell you where this is, but I wan't to fish this spot again and revealing its location just wouldn't be right. I'm sure you'll understand! Four fish in all, two trout and two big reds. As you can see from the rather grainy cell phone photo, I'm standing in knee deep water in a flooded cordgrass marsh. We were using light spinning tackle, and this cow was caught with a Berkley inshore tube jig like this: