Got back from the bars last night and felt the need to fish. Check the weather. Tied up 2 flies and headed out on my way. I figured first light would be prime time. Launched the kayak and poled around the docks/flats. I went 4.5hours without a bite. Finally at 10:30 I get a good shot in on a big snook cruising the shallows. Before the fly could cross hit path it got smacked by a trout I never even saw. 28" and gave me a night fight. Gotta love those big head shakes. Finished off the rest of the day with some smaller trout, snook and tons of small mangroves, lanes, and schoolmaster snapper.
Here is some fish that I caught the last day in Georgia. Plenty of small fish but finished the trip out the right way.
Lots of different types of creek chubs, and my biggest rainbow trout at 22". Learned alot about this kind of trout fishing. Now just need to get myself a brook and brown to trout out my trout catching.
what kind of fly is that on that snook? looks like a crab of some sort.
Nice hornyhead you got.
It was made to be a mantis shrimp for pompano. I use it so many different ways that sometimes its a shrimp/crab and others its a minnow. Its in the "at the bench section" . Should be easy to find with those orange legs.
I don't know why I tie so many flies. This pattern and the variant of the midnight minnow I tie (the fly in the trouts mouth) catch 90% of my fish.
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Nice hornyhead you got.
It was made to be a mantis shrimp for pompano. I use it so many different ways that sometimes its a shrimp/crab and others its a minnow. Its in the "at the bench section" . Should be easy to find with those orange legs.
I don't know why I tie so many flies. This pattern and the variant of the midnight minnow I tie (the fly in the trouts mouth) catch 90% of my fish.