I got an invite from a local kayak guide, Tim Taramelli (NCPierMan) to head out looking for top water reds. I needed to break my recent luck and I knew he was a guy that could help. We launched at just after day break and began looking for top water reds. This is all pretty common, fishing low light conditions with top water and covering ground. It got interesting when we didn't stop despite several short strikes. The sun rose high in the sky and we still went with topwater, crazy I thought. Tim looked past my negativity ensuring me we would find em and he was excited to see me catch one, despite our luck to the contrary. At one cove he waved me over and showed me a school, he hooked two and had a ton of missed blow ups, I tried to not crowd him but he insisted. Before I could get close enough the bite died.
We kept looking and I was thinking my luck had followed me from Charleston. Tim hooked up on two more reds, one being a hoss at 25". He offered the lure he was throwing but I insisted I would find some fish on my lure.
I finally got in on the action with three reds of my own, the first was a double with Tim besting me with a 24" to my 19.5" Red.
We kept at it until I got a fish that stretched to 26" with a pinched tail!
Tim put me on some nice fish and we had a great time in between bites. If you are ever in the Jacksonville, NC area I'd give Tim a call. He and Wilderness Systems Team member Michael Ortiz can be booked at: www.airborne-angler-adventures.com
had an awesome time this morning my friend next time we will get you that topwater red for sure im glad you finally got on them with me and we caught plenty of fish with 2 double hook ups.
ReplyDeleteanytime you or anyone else wants to come down and give it a try contact michael ortiz at http://www.airborne-angler-adventures.com we would love to get ya'll out and on some of these beautiful red drum