Sat August 16, 2008

This week on the Forgotten Coast hasn't been the greatest in terms of fishing. With rain and wind all week there hasn't been any days that one could get out on the water. Finally Friday the skies started to clear and the wind began to lay down. My friend  Kim was on her way over and all we both thought about was getting out on the water. But Saturday morning we awoke again to the sound of thunder and rain falling. As the day wore on the radar began to show a little break in the action and we decided to head on out. The first stop was Picalean Hole and the backside of St. Vincents Island, the tide was begin to fall and we worked both sides of the bar but the only thing we had to show for our efforts were a couple of Sailcats. I decided to run up into Big Bayou and work some of the small oyster bars as we followed out with the falling tide. The fist bar produced a nice 28 inch red.

This was the first of 6 reds that day. The day produce a smorgasbord of fish. Trout, reds, flounder, grunts and lady fish.  As we were about half way out Kim was begining to get bored with the action and asked if we could move on to Dry Bar. As we prepared to move I noticed some bait activity near the last two bars. I asked  to delay our departure untill we checked those out. The last stop produced a nice 20 inch trout for Kim.