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Brother in law and I teamed up for an awesome tourney day on the water. Water temp was 71.9 degrees. Light north wind it seemed and shifted later in the day to south south west. Hit 4 spots beginning at 6:30 a.m. before we got on them at the 5th spot but, boy, was the 5th spot special. Awesome sunrise in a cloudless day. I started with tops and my partner on plastic under a popping cork. One flounder on the first spot with minor blow ups on the top. Second spot I wasn't out of the boat 3 minutes and a 20 lb Jack boiled the water taking my Strike Pro humpback topwater in a whoosh. Took me better than a minute per pound to bring that monster in. Jack and I were tiring out when done. The Jack fight surely scared off any reds within the horizon but my partner did see a small sea turtle - we decided to move again quickly. We hit a northwest shoreline in another spot but dead water had us move again. I shifted to jig head sand eels away from my tops. Next, we drifted a shallow lake with shell but only small trout greeted us. Water clarity was not good. Tide was shifting to incoming so I made the call to get nearer to what I hoped would be the same as my avatar name sake - a green tide. Daylight was burning and we had no reds. About 2 hours left before weigh in began. It was looking like a tough day was about to expire on us. I decided to hit a shoreline with some Roseau Cane that I knew of which I felt would be in the middle of the fresh incoming tide. We saw something slamming several spots along the cane in shallow water as we pulled in for the last attempt. We weren't sure but knew something was up. We took our time easing over into the shallows. We didn't want to spook our last chance as the water was gin clear in the flats. My brother-in-law and I were about 100 yards apart and we signaled at the same time for each of us to get over to where we each located, respectively. Each of us saw, literally, hundreds of reds along the shoreline. Numerous schools of 25 - 40 fish each in about 8 to 12 inches of water with a number of rays and blue crabs thrown into the mix. The were ALL SLOT SIZE. Singles and pairs would split from the school and return to group up from time to time. The were cruising slowly up and down the shore with backs rippling the surface like emerging submarines. Some looked like they would get caught in the cane as they slammed the white shrimp that were unlucky enough to be in this shoreline. The reds were everywhere in every direction. I was terrified I would spook the enitre shoreline in my excitement and they would disappear. 
However, they hardly gave us a mind as we sat and hammered them in mid-calf deep water for the short time left we had before weigh in. We had our limit quickly on jig headed plastics. My partner was doing the traditional cast and reel with action. I elected the dead stick method. Throwing my jig out in front of a moving school and letting it sit until the school was on top of it. I would then give it some small movement and the school would go nuts fighting over who got to get on my stringer next. What an awesome experience. 
We only had a short time to play. As soon as we strung six we had to make a run for Sea Isle for weigh in. I am not sure why we left that spot to weigh in. I should have just stayed there and continued as long as the party the redfish were throwing stayed open. However, we had our limit, had fish for the tourney and had seen a sight that was amazing. I didn't have my camera with me along the shoreline 
as I could have some amazing video for YouTube. I do have a few pics from the day (though not nearly as exciting as the story) which I will post tomorow when I can download them. In the end, we smoked 'em. 
Congrats to Coe and company for another fine tourney! Can't wait for the winter trout tourney.
However, they hardly gave us a mind as we sat and hammered them in mid-calf deep water for the short time left we had before weigh in. We had our limit quickly on jig headed plastics. My partner was doing the traditional cast and reel with action. I elected the dead stick method. Throwing my jig out in front of a moving school and letting it sit until the school was on top of it. I would then give it some small movement and the school would go nuts fighting over who got to get on my stringer next. What an awesome experience. We only had a short time to play. As soon as we strung six we had to make a run for Sea Isle for weigh in. I am not sure why we left that spot to weigh in. I should have just stayed there and continued as long as the party the redfish were throwing stayed open. However, we had our limit, had fish for the tourney and had seen a sight that was amazing. I didn't have my camera with me along the shoreline as I could have some amazing video for YouTube. I do have a few pics from the day (though not nearly as exciting as the story) which I will post tomorow when I can download them. In the end, we smoked 'em. Congrats to Coe and company for another fine tourney! Can't wait for the winter trout tourney.
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