Morning Redfish

Pat Devlin and his friend, Lumpy Workman have fished around Florida together for years, and with Lumpy in town, they gave me a call and we went fishing! We left the Goffinsville boat ramp at 7:30am with the tide still needing a couple of hours to hit bottom. We ran through Jackstaff and with only a slight breeze, started our troll of the shoreline back up through the creek. The guys had a few bites and with only about 50 yards of fishing, Lumpy felt something pick up his jig/shrimp combo so he set the hook, and Fish On!. He knew right off that the fish was big so he kept the drag loose, playing the fish up to the boat, under the boat, and around the boat and then away from the boat! The FINNS braided line did it's job and eventually he brought the beast to submission and we netted an over sized Red that weighed over 10lbs and was just at 28" We fished the bank, getting a few more bites then headed to Bubblegum Reef where we picked up a few Jacks, a couple of Puppy Drum, a Sailcat, and a Trout. The tide hit low so we pulled up anchor and headed to Broward Island to finish the day with another couple of Drum. The sun warmed things up so we called it a day, another great one to be out on the water!