BENDAROD FISHING CHARTERS FISHING REPORT WED JANUARY 13 2010

Captain Jerry Boaen along with his charter Craig Anderson put a whoopin on some Red Fish in Ossabaw Sound using winter tactics for catching these Reds on the Flats. They started thier day on an outgoing tide but the tide was still a little high to use their shallow water tactics and were haveing no sucess at all, but when the tide was right they found a good school of Reds hanging close against the flat and schoal and started wearing them out. They tagged four Reds that day and kept eight for nice meal. They were using the Evolution cork with mud minnows, just letting their bait set close to where they action was and when the Reds Hit they Hit Hard and made a wonderful day of wearing some arms out!!!

TARGET RED FISH DURING WINTER MONTHS

During the winter months you really need to fish slowly for the Redfish. Often leaving your lure "gulp baits, DOA or live bait just setting on the bottom barely moving the bait; often known as dead sticking. Jerking the bait or cork will not work this time of the year due to the Reds being very easily spooked.

Fishing for Reds in the winter is mostly sight seeing as Redfish schools are often found in the shallow water during January and February.When approaching these schools it is almost best to use a push pole, even a trolling motor can spook these Reds during this time of the year. Many anglers think the Reds move to deeper water, but that is far from the truth. Redfish school up in the shallow waters for safety.

The reason for this is that Redfish are very frightened in the winter as they become a major food source for the Atlantic Dolphin and the reason they hang to the shallows.

We target winter redfish with a 7 1/2"-foot rod spooled with 15 lb Power Pro line, and 20-lb fluorocarbon as a leader to our lures. Although Redfish can get very large, most of the redfish caught in the winter are less than 27 inches.

Hope this Tip helps out on you having a great day on the water.

BENDAROD FISHING CHARTERS FISHING REPORT THURSDAY DEC 31, 2009

Capt. Jerry Boaen and his charter Bobby Grizzard from Macon Georgia went out today in Ossabaw Sound. The first couple of hours started out kind of slow as they had to move around alot before they found a school of Reds feeding up against an oyster rake off a live bottom flat. As they approached the rake they could see the Reds boiling in the water. This trip they were using the Evolution popping cork with a 32" momo leader and glass beads  with a conoe loop knot on the hook using shrimp, mud minnows and gulp baits. The Reds were in a feeding frienzie, just inhaling anything that was thrown at them. Together they had tagged four Reds over the 27" mark and relased many over the 14'' mark. They kept 8 Reds and one Trout. Mr Grizzard is pictureed above with a 30" Red an the second Picture of a 32" Red.