Went fishing with my friend who just recently bought our bayboat. This guy went to LSU and Graduated in 1999. Anyway, no hidden meaning or anything there, just thought some might recognize the guy, and didn't want to link this to another site. We fished the spot I've been catching them, but the sun failed to make an appearance to heat up the flats. Still, we managed a few reds, keeping a couple 20+ inch fish, and releasing a few shorties and the big guy in the following video. Made a move and picked up a few specks for the box, and called it a day in advance of the rain. Here's me catching a big red, by far the biggest we've caught on this flat. This isn't a bull red spot.
Spinner bait with pink/chartreuse tail. But I haven't been catching them on much besides black/chartreuse plastics on jighead, no cork. As you can see, he's covered in leeches from laying on the muddy bottom. I've only caught three fish NOT on the black/ch jighead. This one, one other yesterday on same thing, and one a week ago on a different color spinner bait.
I was wondering what those were. At first, I thought it was just some type of debris, but then I saw them move. I've honestly never seen that before.
Actually very common with reds and specks in the winter. They lay on the very bottom, because the dark mud warms up faster and also the oyster shells hold heat longer.
Nice work. They don't have leaches on em over here.....at least I've never seen it. Wonder what's up with that? I have cut open a big read or speck and seen worms in the meat. I hate that shit.
I don't keep big reds or specks, but I've seen it before too. By "over here", do you mean Mississippi? If there's a muddy bottom, and the water's cold, they have leeches on em. If it's a sandy bottom, which there is in many places in Mississippi, they don't. The leeches are always there, but the fish aren't always laying in the mud. Just when the water's really cold. Very common, though.
