| Capt. Paul Braly and "Seine Net" - A Saturday morning to remember |
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| Written by CaptainPaulBraly | |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 | |
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On Saturday morning I had the pleasure of fishing with Paul Braly Sr., aka "Seine Net" (because that's what it feels like your fishing behind if he gets in front of you). Dad is a second generation fisherman with his father (my late grandad) being a great surf fisherman.
On Saturday morning I had the pleasure of fishing with Paul Braly Sr., aka "Seine Net" (because that's what it feels like your fishing behind if he gets in front of you). Dad is a second generation fisherman with his father (my late grandad) being a great surf fisherman. My dad grew up on the Gulf beach, fishing mainly with bait, and maybe a speck rig every once in awhile, but doesn't care much about bait these days, when it comes to stocking a cooler full of fish and then call it a day. I make certain to stay close behind him when we are wading together down the same shoreline, so that I might have a chance of landing a fish. We navigated safely to our fish hold this Saturday, even though it was really foggy. Fishing with Pink Hologram Devil Eyes with TruLock 1/16 oz jigs, we started wading down the shoreline until we came upon some nice sized trout; they looked to be around 18"-20". Dad, standing next to me, snagged into a lunker trout. It sucked down that lure, after bumping it three different times and next thing you know we were photographing a 7 pounder before putting him back in the water. Working our way up the shore, we got a few more in the 2 pound range before an airboat buzzed the shoreline and skipped into a lake that lied ahead. That was our sign to move on, since the action stopped immediately after that. About 8:15, we hit our next stop and half the fog had lifted by then so we could relax a bit and not have to worry about another boat running into us in the thick fog. I drew the first strike on this wade and thought for about 15 seconds that I topped his early fish, but mine ended up being a redfish with 11 more between us to come in the next 20 casts. We barely moved 50 yards on this wade and wore our arms out on redfish. In all, we kept 6 redfish and five trout releasing the 7 pounder. Under normal circumstances we don't keep many fish, but my brother is coming in from the Irving area and asked for some Christmas Fish so we obliged. I?ve never seen any other soft plastic give that kind of results, since we each only used that one lure, all morning. You can go through a lot of lures with 5-6 redfish back to back per person. Dad and I would have stayed on the water later than 9:30am, if we knew we were getting back just in time to get a list of household chores lined up for us to do. About the Author: Captain Paul Braly is a Texas fishing guide who targets speckled trout and redfish along the Gulf Coast using discount fishing tackle from Brown Lures. Paul suggests you try out some fishing hooks from Brown Lures for your next fishing trip. |
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