Thursday, August 9, 2007

Richardson Boys catchin' Reds


Last Saturday I guided father and son Pete and Max Richardson to some spectacular redfishing. We started the morning on topwater plugging the surf around Figure 8 and managed one nice drum,Max caught it, for two topwater explosions. I honestly could not find the fish after we landed Max's fish. These fish are so silver compared to their backcountry cousins and are a lot more difficult to see at times.

Both Pete and Max were plugging the topwater scene well and I am noticing that as the temperature warms up here it doesn't hurt to pause from time to time on the topwater to entice a bite.

We ran to a new spot later that morning and spent the afternoon with Pete taking fly shots at a big school of reds that were winking and rolling for about an hour of hot feeding activity. We tried several fly combinations and didn't see any refusals but also didn't get any aggressive takes. There were some half-hearted takes and a couple of intense follows but none of the reds tried to smash the fly. It was an excitingly tense morning of fly fishing for these big redfish.

There are some larger fish inshore and I am seeing some nice schooling fish so don't wait too long or this opportunity will pass just like the summer heat!


Tight Loops & Lines,

Captain Seth Vernon

910-233-4520

sethvernon@hotmail.com

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Chris & Jacob Kenny get Topwater Heat!


It was hot today, 110 degree heat index and on the water was the only place to escape it that wasn't indoors. I was glad to have the father son combo of Chris Kenny and son Jacob for some great 11th hour topwater redfishing this morning.


Chris is no stranger to fishing and I knew right off the start we were going to have fun chasing drum today. The ocean breeze we had stayed just under 12 kts making for tough visibility to sight fish and I really wanted to get Chris a shot at some fish on fly. The weather would't allow for it and he gladly put in some time this morning on topwater to get the ball rolling. Early in the day the bite was slow even though we were on some schooling fish, I would have thought the fish would be more active in the cool morning temps but that simply was not the case.


On our last fishing spot Chris managed 6 amazing topwater bites and two strong redfish landed at the boat. I sure was glad it happened for him since he drove from Holden Beach just to fish with me today.


Thanks Chris for a special day with you and "Jake" I look forward to seeing you both back in the near future. Good luck with your duck season this winter!

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