Arrived around 9ish and started casting my topwater into the first and second guts but it only produced one blow up from a small ladyfish.
Made a very wet launch and paddled out tossing a jigging spoon on the trout rod. Picked up 5 gaftops within the first 10 minutes. Changed rigs and tossed out some fresh dead finger mullet and caught a couple more gaftops. Switched to one of the big rods with a few short runs but no hook ups.
Moved to deeper and shallower but didnt find a lot of action other than a few more gaftops.
I had a double run but only landed one fish. He was a gaftop! After a while longer I finally get the best run of the day and landed a golden bull red. He really put up a battle as he circled the yak, made a couple of deep dives, went under the yak and then surfaced on the other side, took me for a sleigh ride, tail slapped me and almost made me turtle with a surprising last ditch effort to escape. I snapped his picture and he made a nice release and swam away like the champ he was. A very strong fish! I think he had just made his way in from off shore and thus the really gold color!
Worked the off colored water line from the Pass and found a pup shark on my knife jig which he liked so well he had it very deep.
Called it a day as my partner was ready to hit the road.
Beautiful day but action was slow for sharks and bull reds. The bulls should really start running within the next few weeks and double digit numbers of catches are pretty regularly reported.
