Cedar Key 1-04-09

[Slim to None]

I finally got a chance to fish on a day when the weather was going to cooperate! Hit the ramp at #4 channel at the early time of 8:30am, decided to sleep in some today after helping my dad demo his kitchen yesterday. After pulling up on my redfish spot I started tossing a chart/black skitterwalk. On my 3rd cast, I heard that familar slurp sound and the fight was on! At first she didn't pull that hard, then saw the boat and took off for a good run. It was a good fight on 7' medium with 8/30lbs power pro and in the net she went. Turned out to be a 26 1/2" 7lbs redfish. Would have made a very nice tourny fish. Fished the rest of the day, with only one 8" trout. Finally called it a day around 1:30 and headed in. It was a good low tide mid day, so there wasn't much water in #4 channel. Made it back with only dragging bottom once on a mud bar. Grilled redfish tonight for dinner!*Woot*

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[Gunnar]

Nicely done Slim to None,*Cheers*

I'm missing that topwater bite, I think the water here in NC is just a little too cold right now but I give it a shot every time I go anyway.*clonk*

Gregg

[workinprogress]

Nice Red, Slim.*thumbsup*

[OBX Hokie]

Gotta love Florida in December. *yay**yay*

Nice red! Good eating!

[MartyJ16]

Nice work there buddy!! What a fish!!*Cheers*

[Dave]

That's a beauty! Good to see ya back out there again Slim *thumbsup*

Dave

[redneckredfishr]

Nice redfish, Slim. *014*

[sportskiff]

Slim,
wadda ya say ya pull that ballcap off an SHO us who ya are......
DANG NICE FISH man, KUDOS!!!!!
;D
Reggie

[FoodPlot]

Nice One. Being that size is hard to come by....Either smaller or larger. Congrats on a really nice Red. *yay*

[Slim to None]

on a side note: last night when i cleaned this redfish the only thing in her belly was tiny stone crabs. there must have been a dozen crabs alltogether, most looked around 3" across the shell (well what was left of the shells). if only it were legal to use stone crabs as bait*004*, someone should tell these redfish they are keeping sublegal sized stone crabs!*laughing*

[Harry]

if only it were legal to use stone crabs as bait*004*, someone should tell these redfish they are keeping sublegal sized stone crabs!*laughing*

Check out the Gulp line up.

They make some really good stuff and should be able to find something similar to that. I know they have little 3" crabs available... :cool:

[Redfish]

Nice fish, Slim. My hats off to ya for fishing #4 with a low tide at coming home time. Tides have been extra low lately, and most of the boys on the site can't appreciate what it means to fish #4 on low water.*018*

The fish I caught last week had mostly shells and small fiddlers in their bellys. It amazing that reds will bite top-water when most of what I see in their guts is shell and crabs.

BTW, trolling motor works great with those Interstate 27s. Thanks again.

[Slim to None]

harry- i've tried the gulp peeler crabs, and it is the closest thing i've found to a natural crab, but nothing beats a real crushed crab. those little stone crabs are everywhere around the oyster bars i fish, so getting bait would be a piece of cake if it were allowed. as homer would say, d'oh!

redfish- you're welcome! i'm glad to hear they are cranking out the juice like they should! yeah the original plan was to fish until incoming in the afternoon, but the bite was slow after that redfish. we called it a day earlier than i thought we would, so it was a shallow ride in. there was one area where i had to trim the motor out of the water a hair and slide over some mud while still on plane. the water was crystal clear, we could see bottom in 5', the clearest i've ever seen it around #4.

[MartyJ16]

I am appalled at the blatant disregard of the stone crab restrictions from your redfish population.

But since you ate him, we can't lock him up.;D

[workinprogress]

I am appalled at the blatant disregard of the stone crab restrictions from your redfish population.

But since you ate him, we can't lock him up.;D


That sounds like deeply disguised warm-weather jealousy to me.*laughing**laughing*

We will attempt to teach our fish more cooth, but you know how they are.*004**004**004*

BTW, it was a balmy 81 deg. here today.*Cheers**Cheers*

[Redfish]

the water was crystal clear, we could see bottom in 5', the clearest i've ever seen it around #4.

Wow, that's a big change since about mid week. I was down around Shell Mound, just north of there, last week and thought the water to be a bit muddy for that time of year. I blamed it on all the real low tides and mud being kicked up in the bay. I was blowing mud most of the way across from the East Pass to Deer Island that morning.