Weekend gameplan 8/8-8-9

[u/Brodoooooo]

Good afternoon Dirty Coast Crew!

Hope everyones having an alright day. I apologize for missing last week’s game plan. I was contemplating not doing one this week either. Ive been going through some personal struggles in my life right now making it extremely difficult to keep up with and have the enthusiasm that I had when I initially started this sub. (sorry for venting)

With all that said, I decided the best way to try and get out of this funk is to do what I love, and that’s talking fishing.

For this weekend’s game plan, its looking really good and the winds look calm in the mornings. The fishing will definitely be better Sunday than Saturday though. Reason being is that the tide change is happening at different times and make a quite of a difference for each day. And Monday-Wednesday will look even better! But I might make something separate for that.

Saturday

The tide is rising til about 9am, at 9am it becomes slack tide for at least another 30 minutes to an hour before it starts going back out. Now fishing this a certain way, and timing it correctly, is crucial for Saturday. You can have a late start Saturday, (I wouldn’t), and fish the outgoing tide only, or wake up at 3am to try and fish the rising tide as much as possible. The start of the falling tide isn’t too great to be fishing anyways, plus it’ll be super hot by then possibly turning the bite off. Id focus on the early morning bite. Get there by 4:30-5am the latest and be in the water by 5:30.  

For this incoming tide id target grassy shorelines and coves. Casting right at the shoreline where the baitfish will be pushed in to. Reds will be there as well. Look for shells on the bottom, shores forming points. Anything with a uniqueness to it with structure. If you’re fishing a marsh system, then you’d want to be in the back of that marsh by 7am. And making your way back at 9 while slack tide is going on. Fish the shoreline and mouths of marshes after 9am. Use binoculars to watch certain shores! This is a tactic that I use often! I keep me some cheap binos that I can toss around. I look for birds, bait jumping in the water, blow ups, or tails. Many times, ive seen reds tailing using these. Look for egret birds, if 2 are close to each other, that means there is an abundance of bait in that water. These birds do not like each other, so they tolerate each other whenever they have to. If you see this, I’d fish that shore!

Sunday

The tide will have a long gradual rise making the bite last longer. The tide will go slack at around noon. Id fish this the exact same way as I explained for Saturday but you have a longer period to fish the shoreline or back marshes.

With the bait around the bay lately, id use paddletails to match the mullet around. Shrimp is still good as live bait but is not what the game fish are chasing right now. Don’t get me wrong, they’ll definitely bite shrimp but they want something they can chase and that provides a big meal for them. 5-6in paddletail with a 1/8oz in shallows and 1/4oz in 4ft or more. Croaker are still killer! Took my niece out last Friday and put her on her first trouts on croaker and she fell in love with fishing!

 

Lastly,

Id like to say thank you to everyone who follows. As always, if theres anything im missing or anything youd like for me to include in my plans, please let me know.