Just got back from another Spring Break on Hilton Head Island.  The bass fishing was slower than I would have liked but thankfully the redfish were hungry!

 

My all-star guide Captain Brian Vaughn delivered yet again and put my wife and I on some feisty redfish.  It took a little while to figure them out, as they just were not responding to artificial lures, but nothing can resist a nice live shrimp!

 

 

 

 

After a day with my guide, I set out on my own to a brackish lagoon which I had not yet had success on but that changed.  I landed a nice slot red and a small trout to start off.

A few min later, my rod bent in half and the fight was on.  I wrestled this monster red to my feet and then stupidity took over.  I had my head on a swivel watching for gators, and in my infinite wisdom decided to pull him up the small embankment by the 15-lb leader instead of grabbing him properly.  Brilliant!  I managed to get a short video of the monster paddling around in the tailwaters, and if you look closely you can see my white fluke sticking out of his mouth.  I know for a fact that I fought and won against this beast, but without the good fish pic it still feels like a loss.  Oh well, lesson DEFINITELY learned!

 

Nice redfish. They are one of my favorite inshore fish to catch.