I finally had an evening trip this week with two clients. The clients couldn’t cast for beans at the beginning, but after a few lessons and practice… they were way better at hitting our target areas.

A bunch of sea grass got uprooted from the strong southeast winds that started up around 7pm with the front that was approaching. The wads of floating, dead sea grass was making it harder to retrieve baits without snagging and it was altering the bait’s movement. There were good places that redfish and a few speckled trout were hunkered down under the dead grass, but we couldn’t get either one to hit on the retrieves, they sensed something wasn?t right! Cast after cast, the clients kept trying for a strike that seemed non-existent even though we could see the fish chasing the lures.

We decided to try our luck somewhere to get out of the wind, but that was similar to the 18-30 feet water we just left. We found some bigger redfish, although there weren’t as many of them, in similar areas, sandy bottom with some cracked oyster shells, that didn?’ have as much dead, sea grass to contend with.

Working the Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jig head, slowly up and down, we thought we would have better results than with darker colors since the water was so clear. We were right, within a few attempts we had redfish chasing after the lures. When my clients saw the redfish following the bait and swirling the water they got so excited they kept retrieving the lure, so fast in fact, the fish couldn’t catch it. I had to tell them to relax, and wait to set the hook once you feel the strike, since they needed to present the bait in front of the fish, with such clear conditions. The redfish started wolfing the lures down.

Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could’ve gotten away!

We left that area to try for some speckled trout to go along with the redfish. Next, we hit a channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds that tapered off from flats going into the channel. Using the same color scheme, we tried the same action but the color was a bit sandier here. There were plenty of trout present, in mixed sizes from “peckerheads” to 21″. I had one client rigged with a Rootbeer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, and both were getting popped constantly.

While there weren’t as many of the larger trout, which were lying in holes on top of the flats, they were some good-looking fish. When we checked out the drop off, it actually had more fish that were smaller, but keepers were holding there. The clients ended up boating 14 speckled trout and the action was hot and heavy, making it a great 3.5 hour outing!

Part of the success had to be attributed to the new TruLoc jig heads, because they have some great quality, sharp hooks!!! We didn’t lose a single thing because of the hooks, but lost tails from two of the lures because of the way those redfish were sucking them in and no other worm could’ve done any better with the abuse those fish were dishin’ out.

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I finally had an evening trip this week with two clients. The clients couldn’t cast for beans at the beginning, but after a few lessons and practice… they were way better at hitting our target areas.

A bunch of sea grass got uprooted from the strong southeast winds that started up around 7pm with the front that was approaching. The wads of floating, dead sea grass was making it harder to retrieve baits without snagging and it was altering the bait’s movement. There were good places that redfish and a few speckled trout were hunkered down under the dead grass, but we couldn’t get either one to hit on the retrieves, they sensed something wasn?t right! Cast after cast, the clients kept trying for a strike that seemed non-existent even though we could see the fish chasing the lures.

We finally decided to leave the sand and grass beds that were about 18 to 30 feet deep to find somewhere that the winds weren’t blowing so hard. We came across a spot that was similar in depth and bottom that didn?t have the floating sea grass but had some scattered oyster shells, which might indicate there could be some larger redfish holding there, but just not as many, it seemed anyway.

Working the Pink Hologram Devil Eye on a 1/16 oz. TruLoc jig head, slowly up and down, we thought we would have better results than with darker colors since the water was so clear. We were right, within a few attempts we had redfish chasing after the lures. When my clients saw the redfish following the bait and swirling the water they got so excited they kept retrieving the lure, so fast in fact, the fish couldn’t catch it. I had to tell them to relax, and wait to set the hook once you feel the strike, since they needed to present the bait in front of the fish, with such clear conditions. The redfish started wolfing the lures down.

Five got creel limits of redfish in the two to two and a half foot range, that were hooked so good there was no way they could’ve gotten away!

We left that area to try for some speckled trout to go along with the redfish. Next, we hit a channel near the flats with sand and mixed grass beds that tapered off from flats going into the channel. Using the same color scheme, we tried the same action but the color was a bit sandier here. There were plenty of trout present, in mixed sizes from “peckerheads” to 21″. I had one client rigged with a Rootbeer Devil Eye and the other with a Strawberry one, and both were getting popped constantly.

The holes on the flats held the largest trout, but there weren’t as many of them as there were smaller, keeper fish that were holding on the drop off to the channel but were still some nice looking fish. In less than 4 hours, they had a lot of action counting the ones they released and they kept 14 of the speckled trout!

We never lost any of the new TruLoc jig heads, mainly because of the good quality, sharp hooks, and only lost the tails on two lures that got smashed by redfish and you just can?t help that when they’re slamming them like they were. I really like those jig heads for a good, strong, hook set.

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