Headed out to Brown's Creek about 11:00 with a couple dozen shrimp, hoping for some fish and maybe dinner. After hearing about all the sheepshead recently, I spent the first half hour fishing the bridge, but didn't get a nibble. Next headed up the creek. Managed one dink trout while trolling, but nothing else. Eventually anchored near an oyster bed. Fished it with a shrimp on a jig head with no success, but did catch another dink on my fish finder rig towards the main channel. I thought, well, I'm not catching anything near the shore so why not chuck my shrimp into the middle and see what happens...
What happened was the most redfish I've ever caught in a single day, if not more than I caught in all of 2008. Almost every single cast, I'd get a sloooow bump/bite that'd lead to a 14-16" feisty red. Eventually, I started running out of shrimp and started using half shrimp with the same result. Then, i hooked something bigger. Hoping for a slot, I was rewarded with 18" Black drum. Once I ran out of shrimp, i switched to Gulps, with only slightly less success. The bite eventually turned off, but not before i managed a 17" trout as well. Amazing day for my first time in the area...
Sorry, no pics...

That's also why i have a couple questions... I just moved from Corpus Christi, Tx. where I'd finally kinda figured out how to catch Reds there. But it's all different here. There, it was targeting deeper (3-5') holes/ lines or sand holes in the massive grass flats. Here, I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, and during the whole time I was catching yesterday, I couldn't tell exactly why there were so many reds in that specific spot at that time. Any general hints on how to read the water in the creeks would be great. Oh and Thanks for such a great site. The Fishing Spots map is incredible!

JP3, (as in jet fuel?)
Congrats on sticking it out until you found the fish and a successful presentation! If you were fishing at/near low tide, you probably found a school of reds that had "holed up" into a deep spot to await the next high tide. It might also have been a temperature thing. Deeper water is slower to change than the shallow stuff, so they may have clustered there in a comfort zone. Or, maybe they were feeding there already and you happened along while they were in the mood to chow down. Other times, you'll find the reds up in the grass feeding on fiddler crabs or out on shallow mud flats, warming themselves up in the winter sun.

Keep reading the fishing reports and posts here to gather more of that "local info." As others will tell you , pick a spot or two and work it for a few weeks until you get to know the lay of the land and some of the wildlife patterns there. I've pulled reds out of 1 foot or less of water in some spots, and I've found 'em down in 15 foot holes, too. Others will chime in with their experience as well.

Good luck and tight lines!

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