Personal Best Redfish (Picture Added)

[PRDATR]

Caught this one on vacation Thursday in South Louisiana. No scale or tape but estimated the weight at 15 or more pounds and about 33". Caught with a plastic swim bait on a jig head while fishig for Speckled Trout just before Sunset.

[123456]

No picture for me

[PRDATR]

It's not working for me. I'm adding it as an attachment which is what I thought that was for?

[Big Browns]

Pic please. Your killing me!

[CouesWhitetail]

yes, add the file as an attachment. Make sure you browse to the actual file on your harddrive to upload. sometimes people try and upload shortcuts to photos....if all else fails, just email to me and I can post for you.

[PRDATR]

TTT

[stanley]

Awesome fish, and a great pic! I see the guys catching Redfish on TV sometimes, and it looks like a blast! Never had the pleasure myself though.....

 

Thanks for sharing!

 

S.

 

[123456]

Nice Red, I have never caught one, but I can imagine they fight well with that big ole' tale. Reminds me of a white seabass, and they are a riot to catch when they get over 20 lbs.

[PRDATR]

NICE Redfish... 30" or bigger is the "standard" for trophy reds, so thats a great Bull Red Prdatr... Have you ever tried popping corks above shrimp for reds??? Killer combo...

And after you get into some Reds, grab a flyrod, toss a floating deer hair popper at them and hold on!!!

Slot limit on Reds, and the bigger ones arent that good eating Stanley, the smaller the better for eating...

 

We (my brother and our sons) usually fish market shrimp either on the bottom or under a popping cork, especially when we are over oyster beds or on pipelines. That is how I first learned to fish the marsh. I soon tired of that and started going on rodnreel.com and was fortunate to meet many of the locals and Mr. Mike Lane the owner of the site and managed an offshore trip with him.

I started buying the "latest" lures that people were using and getting the ole raised eyebrows from my brother when I would pull a hot pink topwater Mirror Lure out as he scoffed I was wasting my money. I remember one time I hooked into a huge fish on the first cast, boy was he surprised, but if I have faith in a lure I'll throw it for an hour or until I catch something on it.

I prefer to cast and retrieve even when others in the boat are catching fish under a cork but casting a few hundred times a day takes or more, takes it's toll on you.

Still, I've fished a lot since the 1950's and like catching everything from bluegills and carp on up.

[DesertBull]

Awesome fish.

 

I've been pondering a trip to LA for awhile now. What I really want to do though is go there and fish the oil rigs for those yellow fin. Then go back to town and gorge on oysters.

[reganranch]

Awesome fish.

 

I've been pondering a trip to LA for awhile now. What I really want to do though is go there and fish the oil rigs for those yellow fin. Then go back to town and gorge on oysters.

 

+1 There are huge fish hanging near the Platforms.

[PRDATR]

Awesome fish.

 

I've been pondering a trip to LA for awhile now. What I really want to do though is go there and fish the oil rigs for those yellow fin. Then go back to town and gorge on oysters.

Summertime is when to hit the rigs for tuna but you will want to fish the Midnight Lump for the record size ones from January through the end of March. You can spend some time on RNR to get familiar with the different captains and who is catching what but even that is not guarantee as the weather can change quickly in the gulf with wind being the killer. I recommend.

http://www.captaintroywetzel.com/

or Captn William Wall of Pelagic Charters 225-454-5365 for starters.