wharfrat
Senior Member
We've been on a pretty decent bite the last couple days, and I told Charlie we needed to go after the slam before his vacation is over. I was a little worried about getting on the trout, as I've been struggling a little bit on those, but was fairly sure we could get a couple reds and flounder. The plan was to get to the redfish hole on the outgoing and try to get one a piece and head out towards the inlet on the very last of the outgoing. The sharks had other ideas and it was hard to get a bait past them. We had a blacktip put on a pretty good arial show and the bonnetheads were larger than usual. We finally called last cast after only catching one, to see if Charlie could get one-- and the fishing gods were smiling on us. Charlie landed a good 27 incher. Ran to the inlet and only had a trickle of the outgoing. Charlie got a small red, small trout and small flounder before I got a bite. I was beginning to worry that the bite was over as it slowed down and I hadn't got a nibble. But as the tide turned, the bite picked up and we found some trout holed up where we caught 11, but only two keepers. I needed only a flounder and we both would have our slam. As the tide began to pour in, the flounder bite picked up. We both caught small ones, and then I caught a 19 incher that was pretty fat. As we headed back to the ramp, I suggested we try one more flounder hole and Charlie ended up with a true doormat at 23". If you look at the second picture of Charlie's flounder, you can see that a dolphin or shark or something took a hunk out of his tail. Water temp was 85 degrees and water clarity fair to good. As a few others here have mentioned, I think the trout bite will be outstanding this fall, with plenty of limits. Back at the ramp at noon, all fish released except a few flounders which we donated to a couple of other anglers that were flounder fishing as well.
