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Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report #10374656 10/27/14 10:05 PM
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Hey yall!

I hope yall have been able to enjoy some fishing time this past weekend. The weather was amazing!

Last week I managed to make a very late trip with MECE to check some new grounds.

Previously I had sightcasted about 7 reds off the flats about 4 days before but the reds were gone with this high water and howling east winds. We treked on in search of fish and hit areas I hadnt tried before.

It doesnt happen often but I was completely outfished that morning. MECE was putting a hurt on the fish with live shrimp sitting under a cork.






This past saturday I got to fish in a tournament for Cody. The amount of support that showed up was pretty crazy. He has a lot of good friends down here by the coast. I also got to meet a few new faces and see some old ones.

Was great to chat was Tyler, Stan, and Sikes at the meeting. Good to put a face to the name (handle).

The game plan for the tourny was to just have fun. We hit the water around 10PM just to get set up and do a little flounder gigging ahead of time.

Reds were busting up but they were moving fast and I couldnt get a topwater to stick. Eventually we beached up and walked around with the gig. There were a TON of baby flatties but we did manage a couple up to 21".

Midnight comes around and I have yet to find any fish. The drum were all gone and the ones I did find were zombie mode. We made a ill advised loooong paddle and found them schooled up but it was too late so they wouldnt eat.

Morning comes around so I put up the bottom fishing rods and get ready to sight cast some reds. North wind was howling and it was making it a bit difficult to see the backs but a few of these guys decided to play.



I managed a limit but none of them were of any size so I never bothered with a photo for the tournament.

I left the reds to chase trout around and hit a gold mine of skipjacks. One skippy came in at 23" and I figured he would be a good one to turn in for the tournament. At this point it was already 9:30 and I had already given up on catching fish to enter. This skippy changed my mind.



Now the funny thing is that skipjacks were never on the list of fish I could enter. This whole time I thought I had a good fish but it never counted. All that aside it was the kick in the [censored] I needed to catch more.

I hit a few trout but nothing impressive biggest going 18" but I did lose a monster 28" at the yak. Skipjack jumped and tossed the lure and the big gal hit it while I took in the slack. Thought I still had a skippy until I tried to force it away from the anchor line and she came up and head shook the lure. Oh well..

Time is 11:15 and weigh in was coming up. I needed a few more fish to enter so I moved over to a spot I have never fished before.

It didnt take long for this 22"er to see the net.


I think they got mixed up at the tournament and counted my trout as 22". Either way I got to upgrade my trout a few minutes later to this 24" gal that ate a dead shrimp off the bottom.



The bite slowed and skippies moved in so I switched areas to try and pick off a drum. Around 12:45 I managed to finally get a drum and a bonus hard head to enter.





I booked it back to the boat ramp to try and make weigh in. When I got there I overheard about every excuse in the book from people loading up boats. "High tides came in" "Moon phase is all wrong" "Damn north winds" ...Every...excuse.. Apparently it was a tough day for most as only 16 people showed up to weigh in fish.

In the end I somehow managed to place second just a point behind first. Not bad for giving up and not catching a eligible fish until 11:30.





In the end I had a few flatties, 1 Drum, Limit of reds, and about 15+ slot trout to my name. I cant say enough about how awesome the fishing community is down here. I know everyone busted [censored] to get this thing going. The Islander Anglers had everyone out there helping with the weigh in and registration. You just cant beat the fellowship.

Till next Time
Life is good

-Tino

Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10374936 10/28/14 12:18 AM
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Congrats AT! clap

Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10375799 10/28/14 04:28 AM
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Nice,Congrats! thumb


Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10375902 10/28/14 11:00 AM
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Congrats Tino. Solid trout there. thumb

Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: RogerB] #10376019 10/28/14 12:48 PM
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congrats nicely done clap


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Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10376292 10/28/14 02:49 PM
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Awesome dude. I was bummed I couldn't make it down for it.


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Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10376436 10/28/14 03:48 PM
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Very cool thanks for sharing


Re: Cody Moravits Benefit Tourny...Report [Re: AcousticTennis] #10377994 10/29/14 03:21 AM
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Way to hang in! Great report too!


cheers


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I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.
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