fishing slicks

[Randy]

I've read about the infamous "red crab tap". From what I've read, only one had located it?

Yep, and he's color blind! LOL
The Trout Support videos have very detailed information on fishing slicks.

[grown in Tx]

I've read about the infamous "red crab tap". From what I've read, only one had located it?

[plugger]

I'm still looking for the red crab trap with surrounding slicks .

[Puddle pirate]

Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha

[grown in Tx]

How about you take me out to your spots and I'll be the slick spotter for ya lol

[rtoler]

Just so I can give you the right information you better show me where they were. Then I can better answer your question

[Curmudgeon]

Yeah, I know the smell, we circled around about a 50 foot in diameter slick Sunday just to check it out and that was the strongest I've ever smelled it. Didn't see any sign of bait or fish though.

If it was that big it was probably downwind of where the fish were located.

[Cuda340]

Yeah, I know the smell, we circled around about a 50 foot in diameter slick Sunday just to check it out and that was the strongest I've ever smelled it. Didn't see any sign of bait or fish though.

...fished a ton over the years here on Galveston Bay, and have been doing my best to convince my fishing friends that this time of year what they are smelling is "Gafftop". FINALLY!! They went out on their own and all they were catching were slimers....case closed! However, you can also see slicks...small ones...pop up on Flounder right on the shoreline as well as over by the Red Crab Trap in the Galveston Channel and know it's time to get busy.

[grown in Tx]

Yeah, I know the smell, we circled around about a 50 foot in diameter slick Sunday just to check it out and that was the strongest I've ever smelled it. Didn't see any sign of bait or fish though.

[H.Maier]

Another quality post. Lol

[H.Maier]

Yep. Sometimes you can smell them before you see them. The melon smell is usually trout or porpoise. The bait fish, mullet smell can be trout or gaff top. The small paper plate ones close to shorelines are most always flounder. IMO. Next to locating bait fish, or bird activity, slicks are a surefire way of locating fish and that's key to catching.

[Curmudgeon]

They've got an odd smell sort of like watermelon. If you ever smell that take a look around.

[grown in Tx]

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get back out and put this info to work.

[plugger]

Slicks are made by feeding fish . They regurgitate some oily stomach content when feeding . Follow larger slicks up wind/current to their origin . They are in a feeding mood so go get them .

[Robalo]

It helped allot, thanks.
I was wondering about the size of the slicks with wind and waves.

The smaller, the better-means you're darn close. Seen em pop up near shorelines and they're about the size of a paper plate, then expand quickly. remember, that fish is moving, so be far upwind because the fish move and the slick goes the opposite direction due to wind/current.