You may not want to do the fly rod reds. After years of frequent trout trips around middle TN and six straight years of heading out for a week or ten days in ID and MT, it all came to an end when I was introduced to saltwater fly fishing. TNdeer gave me a tarpon trip as a retirement gift, and the rest is history. Now, almost all of my extra time and money heads down to the Gulf to play with tarpon and redfish. Flats boats, and time in a guide's skiff, doesn't come cheaply. Thus, I continue to work at age 70 to deal with my addiction. As Mr. Brandt says, it is like shooting it into your veins!
Wednesday or Thursday morning the tide was really high and we saw about a 5' long fish in the canal while we were walking along the beach. Wasn't a shark and the water was pretty dirty so couldn't really tell much about it.
Ty! It's really working out well and running like a top! She will only do 23 mph loaded down with 2 people, but that's plenty fast enough for me, esp when going thru the twisty bayous. Getting about 10mpg. Anytime I run into 3 or 4 other boats, at least one compliments me on my boat. It's tiny, but a head turner! Had some .7f chop as the day wore on, and it's an unbelievably dry ride for being so low to the water.
I'm in MS, and there is some decent wade fishing right off the beach around Gulfport near structure from what I hear. Mostly very early AM and right at sunset.
Yes, there are a bunch of wading opportunities in the Panhandle!
. Effort on skiff is paying off in spades!
There's definitely a lot of truth to this.
I'm good where I live... only 75 miles from the coast and don't have to deal with hurricane homeowner insurance rates. Only takes me a little over 1.5h to pull the boat there. If I want to fish a whole weekend and stay down there, I can get an air bnb for $75.
What's a black fish? Tripletail?My best friend lives on coast in Big Bend of FL. Literally has a canal dredged from the Gulf to under his house. Boat stays in water year round. Always spend a week or two in spring down there catching specks & black fish (best eating fish in Gulf imo). Their red fishing is just so-so, but happen to have another friend that lives a few miles from Matagorda Bay in TX. Got a October trip down there this year to catch big bull reds in surf. Been several years since going, so looking forward to it. Of course I reciprocate with smallmouth trips below Wheeler & deer/turkey hunts for them.
Glad Mega has something to do now that turkey season is done
Awesome!
