Wholly Schmolly! Those are some great big Reds! Best of luck today there Charles – wish I could have made that one.

Well, if you don't hear me talking about yesterday, you can bet there's a reason. Nothing like being on a little lake when a fishing tournament is going on. Speed boats roaring all around, and the strangest behavior of throwing cast nets on every square inch of shoreline that would, in a perfect world, host redfish foraging. Add to that – this was my third time there without a single fish of any stripe. At least I finally found the hot water discharge and where the fish congregate (somewhat). All day, 9+ miles of kayaking, and back at the closed ramp at dark – to find a guy and his girlfriend fishing from a Dodge truck parked at the bottom of the boat ramp. He jumped out of his truck as we arrived and grabbed one of his giant surf rods that was bent and yanked in a 20 inch red. He pulled in his stringer before measuring it, and on that stringer was one 30 inch red and another smaller one. That sealed my opinion – this place is meant for frozen shrimp and shad – laid out on the bottom and waiting for as long as it takes for redfish to pass by. That place, as it is working now, just isn' t meant to fish any other way.