Decided to try something different. Left early this morning with nothing but artificials. The tide wasn't great so my main goal to be back home before the wife woke up. Got to the launch at sunrise and thought twice about putting in since there was thunder in the distance and lightning in the air. I knew the Mrs. War Eagle would be ticked if I got struck by lightning and messed up her plans. Waited about 20 minutes and as the sun came up I realized the storm was headed away from me. I launched and started throwing top water. After 20 minutes I laid down the topwater and switched to a gulp curly tail and immediately caught a 17" red. 10 minutes later BAM! Fight on!



Personal Best 28"

Of course this would be the day I left my photo board at home. So I took a quick picture and set her free to spread the karma.

Caught another 19 inch trout later. Along with some rat reds. Best fight of the day was a huge jack that I hooked and got boat side before it popped the leader.

All in all a great day, plus I got home as planned. Now off to the golf course with the wife. Life is good.

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Crimson Tide is just a fancy way of saying, "sea of rednecks"!

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Hobie Outback

Congratulations on a great trout!

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Napolean Dynamite

Congrats! Very nice trout.

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Native Ultimate 14.5 Tandem Yellow

Man what a trout, an absolutely beautiful fish. Sometimes I think berkley has cornered the market on soft baits that trout hit. Yes I know they hit others, but it seems most reports I read, the gulp has wiggled it's way in there.

Thanks, C.

Nice trout. Also it is so encouraging to here that an Auburn fan can get out, on his own with no supervision and fish. You must be proud.

Very nice gator trout!!!

Only way to top that would have been a hole in one...

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Mini-X

LOL. Like I said I snuck out. The hardest part of going fishing is always counting all those pennies to pay the ferry.

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Hobie Outback

Awesome trout!!!! Sounds like a great morning on the water. I am sure it feels like an accomplishment to have fooled them all on arties....Nice work.

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Malibu Stealth 12

WoW!! You definitely scored with that one. It was very nice of you to let her go and hopefuly reproduce some of those genes back into the gene pool.