With a high in the mid 60's today, my buddy Jason and I decided to take advantage of the weather and hit the water. We put in at the ramp around noon, and made a run down the waterway to a series of mainland creeks. I shut the engine down at the mouth of the creek and jumped on the poling platform.
The water in the sound and creeks is crystal clear this time of year, which makes for great sightfishing opportunites. We hoped to run into some schooled up drum hanging out in the creek. Jason pulled out a rod and started casting a rabbit strip fly towards the creek bank. On about his third cast, he came tight to a decent fish. We thought it was a drum until it rolled at the surface and we saw the speckles. After a few short runs the fish came to the boat and measured out between 23-24". Congratulations to Jason on his biggest speckled trout to date.
I continued to pole my way up the creek and after about 100yds, we ran into a school of drum. They were sitting in the middle of the creek and saw us before we saw them, and blew out under the boat. We continued along, and ran into some more fish about 100yds farther up the creek. We saw several schools of reds as we worked our way up the creek. The schools ranged in size from a half dozen to fifty fish. Most of the redfish were heading down the creek, as we were heading up, which made it hard not to spook them. We had a great time seeing that many fish...and hopefully they'll be there waiting for us when we return.
We hit one more creek on the way back to the ramp, and found a few drum working in extremely shallow water. Not a bad day for the 1st of January. The weather was gorgeous. I hope we get some more days like this throughout the Winter.
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