Clean water key to locating numbers of reds
All this southerly wind has blown an ocean’s worth of water into the marshes around Magnolia.
It’s also blown in something else: redfish.Capt. Eddie Adams had a big weekend catching reds in the pockets of the ponds in the marshes north of Port Sulphur.
The water wasn’t spectacularly pretty, but it was full of fish.
“I’d find the cleaner pockets, and fish there,” he said.
The key was to locate grass, particularly what Adams refers to as snot grass and farm-pond grass.
“The fish just like being in that grass,” he said.
Best baits were spinner beetles and spoons.
Not surprisingly, the water was high Saturday and even higher on Sunday.
Although that sometimes allows the fish to spread out and move into areas anglers can’t access, it didn’t seem to hurt the bite this weekend.
Still, Adams is chomping at the bit, waiting for whatever day this week the wind quits blowing.
“The first day that the wind lets up, the fish are going to stack up at the cuts between the ponds,” he said.
According to the marine forecast for the area, that’ll be Wednesday.
Adams can hardly wait.
To contact Capt. Eddie Adams, call 504.975.7902, email captaineddie@louisianaredfishmaster.com or visit http://www.louisianaredfishmaster.com/.
