Flood Tide Fishing

Saltwater Inshore Reports
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The past couple of weeks I have been focusing on fishing the flood tides with my kayak. A friend of mine introduced me to this type of fishing not to long ago. Once I actually saw the number and size of the redfish that can be up there in that skinny water I was hooked. Now that I know those bigger fish get up there like that I cant just ignore them. But I learned pretty quickly that even though you can see loads of fish tailing, actually getting them to bite can be quite infuriating.

Since I’m not an experienced fly fisherman yet I decided to go with conventional gear to reduce unnecessary complications. It took about six trips and probably 30 tailing fish before I was finally able to get one to eat. I tried everything I could think of. I threw DOA shrimp, live target shrimp, soft plastic crab lures, berkeley gulp. The only thing I have gotten bites on are small natural colored swimbaits on a small jig head, loaded down with procure. For now I think I will stick with this pattern until I get a few more fish under my belt before I switch over to the fly rod. This is some of the most exciting and frustrating fishing I have ever done and i’ll probably be up in the marsh every chance I get.

Check out the video for my latest trip here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q87KSJPeBM

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It’s hunting when your on the marsh. Try slim swims in the deal and a 1/32 jig head. I’ll file down bigger jig heads to make them lighter or have a more erratic action. Sometimes you can find 40 inchers up there, I’ve never caught one over 30 in the marsh but have hooked huge fish.

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Nice report and vid! Had luck yesterday with pinkish/white zman paddlerz… didn’t read the name. Dark colors seemed to spook em. I like 40’s advice and will grab some of those as well. This time of the year is almost too much fun:+1:

Fishing Nerd

“No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool… nothing else.”

…well, some fishing too!

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Great report!! Every trip we take, we learn something!!