Texas Redfish Series

Team Uno Mas, representing Livingston Lures traveled to Bluff's Landing on the Upper Laguna Madre on Thursday to fish our first Texas Redfish Series. We prefished on Thursday, having never been to this locale before! The winds blew hard, but we traveled almost up to Baffin Bay and it was nearly noon before putting our first keeper red in the boat.
After lunch we decided to head back closer to the marina and fish the west shoreline. This was an area that was getting battered by the winds, but the water remained very fishable. I had located a small drainage on the plotter coming into the bay and we decided to wade the area for a couple of hours. We picked up four keepers in the 22-24" bracket and a decision was made to fish the same area on tournament day.
The luck of the draw had us leaving the marina in spot number "LAST"! But we were on our hole in less than 15 minutes and probably fishing before some of the others got to their areas. Right out of the hat I hooked what was probably an oversize fish that broke the hook after a long run. Twenty minutes later I netted a 28 1/4 in. On our scale he hit 10lbs, after much thought he was released.( That 1/4 " probably cost us $22,000.
We had decided to camp out on this particliar shoreline and to fish it all day. Normally we are up and moving, but this time we stuck with what proved to be a good choice. We would wade for about 45 minutes, pick up a few keepers, return to the boat, rest, and hit it again. Around mid-morning David picked up a 27 3/4" that was heavy, but we knew we needed a second fish that was close to this one in order to place. We had two additional 23", 4 pounders in the live well.
Around 1pm, I connected with a 26 1/4". We were feeling good!
We headed for weightin with our expectations high and knowing that we had done well for never fishing this area.
We weighed in our two fish at 15.08lbs. We ended the tournament in 16th place. We were in the money, but with the 10 pounder would have had close to 17lbs. 16.58 took home a $22,000 Majek rig! So close, yet so far away! There were 81 teams entered and so 16 out of 81 ain't so bad!
Our next RedFish Series Tournament will be on our home gounds in the Lower Laguna Madre, July 24th.
By the way, every single fish we caught on Saturday fell to gold or silver spoons!
See ya on the water!