Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: "I love you baffin!!!" Baffin Bay 10-14
So this weekend im busy as can be....fishing the mornings helping with the nilgai in the afternoons...
With the cold front that came through i wanted to make sure i know where the fish are so the guys and gals that are fishing with me this weekend can spend more time fishing where they are then where they aren't ...
Warning: the following report contains a exciting fishing adventure do not read if you are at work or there is a lightning storm outside! A/T is not liable for injuries you receive from attempting to recreate this adventure...unless you catch then its totally my fault :dance:
Got on the water around 6:30
Checked on "The Gauntlet" where i caught the reds...nada it was too cold had to wait for it to heat up a bit....
poled down the shore line all the way to "Grazing fields" picking up 3 lower slot reds on the way....
got to Grazing fields finally and picked up this bigger red around 24-25
then a couple yards down the shoreline....this happens....and im sorry for all the cussing, watching my language for the video was the last thing on my mind =/...
i was a little excited...first time i ever sight casted a Trout and biggest trout i've ever hit on a lure...at the time...
and yes it was released! =)
a little slow to swim but it took off in a hurry after a bit =) good to see
I was thinking to myself "How can i follow that up" ...
i didn't care how the rest of the day ended i was just excited to have that under my belt i would like to say i got this lure thing figured out but not just yet young grasshoppa....
so i let the, now gusting, wind push me back down the shoreline and i pole my way around a embankment for wind shelter...
i continue to pole spooking a few reds..the water was DIRTY so i had to see them 3 feet in front of the yak stop on a dime and cast quick to get them....
i found myself in a little "cove" that usually is shallow but with the rain the water picked up and let me cruise through it...
on the shoreline i see a "redfish" it spooks off the shallow and is deep but i can still see a shadow of it...
i kept casting my shrimp and nada so before it got into deeper water where i would lose it i grabbed my other rod with a catch 2000 bone tied on....
perfect cast...it sinks...shadow darts to lure...DRAG! RED ON!!....wait...this isnt right...
*Headshake* *Headshake* *Headshake*
ITS ANOTHER MONSTER TROUT!!!
it made 5 or 6 big runs i dont catch a lot of trout for the main reason of the drag being locked down for reds..so i let it rip drag without ripping the hook out...
finally i got it to the net! YEAAAAAA! YEAAAAA!
this trout measured out at 29.5" i could not believe my luck it was an amazing feeling...and i got the picks on a ruler i will send to yakman for KOTH!
now the bummer...i spent 40-50 minutes trying to revive the fish..i took quick pictures and did my best but when it was in the yak it hit its head REALLY hard thrashing around and just stopped moving..30 minutes of that time it wouldn't even move its gill plate or mouth just float upside down =/
so as much of a CPR fisherman i have become i had to pull out the stringer....
nevertheless i was still very excited and pumped up!!!
i continued down the shoreline and got close to "The Gauntlet" again saw a couple reds on the outside of it ....once in it there was black drum all over...
figured i would figure them out on lures...tried the arnulfo approach with a pink swimming mullet but it just spooked em...
put on a short shank DOA jighead with a 1.5 inch pearl white gulp shrimp...drag it up to there face ..tiny twitch..wait...wait...wait..wait...wait...then they will pick it up and casually swim away with it and set the hook =) try it haha..
got a limit in about 10 minutes...wanted to play more with them but i decided to let them be so when my guests come to fish the drum wont be scared of the lure already...
theres 5 in there trust me lol with a very dead trout
did manage another greedy red that stole the shrimp from the drum lmao funniest thing to see happen...
Anyways fished from 5:30 to 3:30 with 2 awesome trout, 5 Drum, and 6 redfish =)
so Pup, Pach, Erick, Wildman....i hope i can get yall on some fish lmao im trying my best here
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject:
WOW thats a trout!!!! nice job on the release good pics as always nifty video too those poles sticking outta the water make it hard to land a big one i bet... if hooking a monster doesn't make you scream and feel like this probably need to find a new sport _________________ http://www.youtube.com/user/Shark456Bait/featured
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject:
Nice story and all but we need to see pics, NO PICS NO KICKS! LOL
Ok so you out did yourself, I must admit! Good luck on your trip TOMORROW! _________________ I wasn't born in the Bluff but I got here as fast as I could!
qualityfish, I'd put her on my stringer too if she wasn't green...alot of those stressed trout will die anyway after being caught. Good fish and story, thanks man.
congrats on two trout of a lifetime... and don't kick yourself too hard about that second one. everyone who advocates catch and release has killed a big trout or two in their time. it happens man. at least you tried... alot of people wouldn't have even done that. _________________ 'one does not know what is beneath the surface...' W. C. Prime
@luke...thats cause we were just talking about the 30+ club thought i had another with that first trout and especially the second lol
@ OZ... i was a machine....it would be my luck to hit a rough patch of fishing 1.5 fish behind rockstar lmfao
@Arnold & Nebulosus....yea id rather take the fish then leave it to wash up like the other 32" i found that just rotted on the shore....all parts of the fish were used the cats enjoyed what i couldnt cook lmao
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thats a trout!!!! nice job on the release good pics as always nifty video too those poles sticking outta the water make it hard to land a big one i bet... if hooking a monster doesn't make you scream and feel like this probably need to find a new sport 
