Fishing With Capt Rick and Capt Jeremy (2008)
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By: Capt Rick Reynolds

12/19/2008

Capt. Rick went on scouting trip for a couple hours out in Wassaw Sound. Water temp was 58°, but the wind was a stiff 10 knots out of the west. Water clarity was poor. Air temp creeped into the upper 70's. Pitched artificial gulp baits for a while and caught and released a few seatrout. The trout were hitting the electric chicken pattern, while the redfish hit dark brown 4 inch shrimp. Kept 1 fish for a demo next month.

12/17/2008

Capt. Rick went on a scouting trip out in wassaw sound with Capt. Jack Mcgowan of Miss Judy Charters. We were only out for a short time, but got into a feeding frenzy of speckled sea trout. Most fish were released. Water temp was low 50's. All trout caught and released on artificial. We did not have a camera, so no pictures today.

12/05/2008

Capt. Rick had a chance to go fishing / Scouting with Capt. Jeremy and Mr. Charles Finney on Charles 25 foot Seaquest. We ran to some of Charles numbers out towards the snapper banks and had a very nice day catching black sea bass, vermillion snapper and a couple of red snappers. Water temp was in the low 60's off shore and the wind was only about 5-10 out the Northeast. Here is a picture of Charles holding a nice red snapper caught on live bait.

11/29/2008

Capt. Rick had a 4 hour charter for Miss Judy Charters. Today the winds were out of the south west/ west at 10 - 15 knots. Very slow action, the slowest for me in 3 years. Water clarity was good, but with the new moon, tides were faster than normal. Water temp was 53° at most drops. We never did find a very good bite in the limited time on the water. I did idle over a non marked crab trap in 4 feet of water and spent 30 minutes cutting it off my prop. As you can see by this brief report, that we report the good, bad, and the ugly . On the positive side we started late enough to miss most of the rain.

11/22/2008

Capt. Rick had a 6 hour charter for Miss Judy Charters. Today the winds were out of the north east at 15-20 knots early then dropping to 5 to 10 knots. The water temp was 51°. We fished the last hour of the outgoing and the next 5 of the incoming. The air temp was in the mid 20's when we started. I pulled my bait tub out of the river and the water froze on the dock.

Finding clear water out of the direct wind was essential. The day started slow, but when the bite did happen it didn't let up. Unfortunatley we ended the trip during the trout bite. Final count was 5 keeper redfish and 4 keeper trout. We released quite a few reds as well. The largest trout was 16.5 inches and weiged a shade over 2lbs.

11/21/2008

Capt. Jeremy had a 4 hour charter for Miss Judy Charters. Today the winds were out of the north west at a stiff 15+ knots and the water temp was 52°. Fishing was challenging today as the wind never let up. Final tally for the day was 4 keeper Reds and 2 keeper trout.

11/08/2008

Capt. Jeremy had a charter for Miss Judy Charters. Today the winds were out of the west at 10-15 knots and the water temp was 61°. Water clarity was good in some spots and stained in others. The trout bite was slower than earlier in the week, but they kept 6 Redfish, 2 trout and 2 blue fish. Release quite a few short trout.

11/07/2008

Capt. Rick had a 4 hour charter for Miss Judy Charters. Today the winds were out of the west at 5 knots. Water temp was a cool 61°. Water clarity was excellent and the fish were biting. We kept 14 speckled sea trout and 1 bluefish. Most fish today were caught on live shrimp under the traditional float but we did catch a few under the inticer popping cork. We released another 10 or so, with a flounder mixed in.

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