{"id":3526,"date":"2013-01-01T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2013-01-01T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:22:27","slug":"new-years-day-speckled-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Day Speckled Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent New Year’s Day fishing for speckled trout with Wes Blow. Fishing was pretty fantastic, especially for Wes. By the time I caught my third fish, Wes had already caught between 2 and 3 dozen. Things evened out a bit when I moved to the back of the boat with Wes and started fishing his gear. It was even better when Wes took a break and just watched me catch fish for a bit. I lost a really big fish and then managed to catch a 28-inch fish that weighed 7.25 pounds on the digital scale. The one I lost prior to that was much larger. The hook pulled at the boat. Wes got back to fishing seriously after that. <\/p>\n

Wes caught so many “24ish” inch fish that he was just slinging them into the boat. We weighed some of his “23.75 inch” fish that were too small for a release citation: 5 to 5.5 pounds. Wes is a tough measurer. We only caught a few fish under 20 inches long and maybe 60 between 20 and 28 inches long with a lot in the 22 to 25 inch range. We fished from dark to dark and the bite was mostly on the whole time, in spurts: wait 15 minutes and then get 3 or 4 bites at one time. Wait another 5 minutes and it would happen again. I do not think we waited for more than 15 minutes in between bites all day and mostly the bites came in multiples. We missed a lot of bites but we caught a whole lot of fish…well, Wes did. I caught plenty. <\/p>\n

We released everything today though we had a space in the cooler for that one that got away. <\/p>\n