Four of us got up before the sun today and hit the Slower Lower prospecting for speckled trout...Abel and I were able to find a few decent fish...the bite was slow and the fish were smaller than my last trip here...but I kept two 16 inch speckled trout for dinner...ended up catching a dozen mostly 13 inch fish...I cast 1/4 oz. Bomber Shad Jighead with 4 inch bass assassin Sea Shad body up on the flats and let the outgoing tide sweep the lure back across the flats...keeping all the slack out of the line and imparting a twitch, twitch, twitch motion usually got a response from the specks...unfortunately there were CNRs...big ones...really big ones...trust me...big with a capital B...full grown adult CNRs...and crab-pots...
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Originally posted by brianisoutside View PostHaha, I hate those things
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkLast edited by ronaultmtd; 07-09-2017, 02:48 PM."Lady Luck" 2016 Red Hibiscus Hobie Outback, Lowrance Hook2-7TS
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Congrats on your specks, Ron.
I liked your description of you lure retrieval technique.
I caught my first and only speck in MD this year recently during a boat trip in the Bay far south of my normal fishing territory. But I have caught a lot of them in FL. Sometimes they are aggressive and will hit a lure on a straight retrieve. But often you have to finesse them by twitching the rod tip and starting and stopping your retrieve. They can be exasperating with their tap, tap, tap before they hook up. Their tentative behaviors can belie their fierce-looking toothy smile which appears to built for slashing through schools of bait fish.Mark
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Thanks Mark...Abel was catching Specks using a different lure/ technique...both worked...this is the way I have always fished for Specks with jigheads...my all time favorite way is Bonk-A-Donking...but that is mostly a Gulf Coast fishery...up here on the Southeast Atlantic Coast the trout don't get as top water aggressive as they do in Alabama/Mississippi/Louisiana/Texas Gulf Coast regions...must have to do with the topography and bait fish..."Lady Luck" 2016 Red Hibiscus Hobie Outback, Lowrance Hook2-7TS
2018 Seagrass Green Hobie Compass, Humminbird 798 ci HD SI
"Wet Dream" 2011 yellow Ocean Prowler 13
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Originally posted by ronaultmtd View PostThanks Mark...Abel was catching Specks using a different lure/ technique...both worked...this is the way I have always fished for Specks with jigheads...my all time favorite way is Bonk-A-Donking...but that is mostly a Gulf Coast fishery...up here on the Southeast Atlantic Coast the trout don't get as top water aggressive as they do in Alabama/Mississippi/Louisiana/Texas Gulf Coast regions...must have to do with the topography and bait fish...
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I've never trolled or tried top water for specks in FL. The pervasive wind and chop typically inhibit top water. I've caught them on the fly, Clousers and crystal buggers. But by far, I have caught most on a simple jig and soft plastic.
P1010149.jpgMark
Pasadena, MD
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We wade fished flats near Orange Beach, Al...used a bright pink Bon-A-Donk type walk-the-dog lure called a Paul Brown...and absolutely slayed them and every now and then a Redfish...but up here only I get bluefish and stripers fishing the same way..."Lady Luck" 2016 Red Hibiscus Hobie Outback, Lowrance Hook2-7TS
2018 Seagrass Green Hobie Compass, Humminbird 798 ci HD SI
"Wet Dream" 2011 yellow Ocean Prowler 13
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Originally posted by ronaultmtd View PostWe wade fished flats near Orange Beach, Al...used a bright pink Bon-A-Donk type walk-the-dog lure called a Paul Brown...and absolutely slayed them and every now and then a Redfish...but up here only I get bluefish and stripers fishing the same way...
Maybe one day I'll just luck into a trout that decides to hit a spook.Brian
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