I fished the past 3 days for speckled trout, puppy drum, tautog (really hoping for sheepshead after Wes Blow caught some really early sheeps while tog fishing yesterday) and spent at least a part of each day fishing for big red drum. I caught oystertoads, stingrays, and big reds. Yesterday, I started fishing for pups at first light up next to the marsh with peeler crab under bobbers. A little topwater I threw did not get eaten by a pup or speck but by a way-too-big red drum for that little spinning rod. I spent most of the morning chasing that fish all over the flats while Stan Simmerman was sending me speck reports about the fish we did not find the day before but he and David Brabrand were catching. I said he was making stuff up and that speckled trout do not exist. He sent photos. After my red drum was done showing me the entire flats, I went back to the marsh and fed peeler crab to stingrays.
After topwater drum bites for the past two days, Stan and I went back out early this morning with topwaters on more appropriate tackle. They did not want that. We then went after tautog/sheepshead and found a good oystertoad bite. We then went back and found the big reds cooperative.
