Fresh Yankeetown Fishing Reports

The Redfish bite is on fire right now in the Yankeetown area of the Gulf. It is the time of year that the Redfish start schooling up inshore and feeding on anything they can find. Our last trip out, we easily caught over 50 quality Redfish, most in the mid to upper slot range. We also had ten Redfish over 27"! You could hear that sweet sound of Redfish pulling drag all day long!!! Our baits of choice were live shrimp, various artificial lures, and live mud minnows. We had multiple double ups, and ended the day with one last double up, both quality Redfish about 26" long. You can also expect to hook up with some nice size Black Drum, Mangrove Snapper, and Seatrout as well. The next couple of months are awesome for fishing here in Yankeetown...Book your trip ASAP!!!

I had a lot of fun with repeat local clients Mark and Brittany yesterday. This trip was Brittany's present to Mark for Father's Day. Once again they fished hard and caught fish all day. Although there were a lot of short Reds and Trout, they also took home a nice slot Red, five beautiful Trout and and a fat Mangrove Snapper. Along with the multiple Reds and Trout, some nice Jacks also helped keep us busy. Brittany says she has a great recipe for Jack's so they took a few of those home as well. Looks like there's another trip coming up soon with the kids. Thanks, guys. I'm looking forward to doing it again soon!

The good Lord has certainly blessed my crew lately with big fish. Thursday was no exception as Larry hooked up with this 32-in Black Drum drag puller and got him to the boat. Not to be out done, Marlee proceeded to do battle with a 35 in monster Black Drum and after a few laps around the boat and under the boat she finally outlasted him and ended up landing the biggest fish of the day! Apparently, she likes to do battle with sea monsters as she hooked into a trash can lid size Ray that also gave her one heck of a fight. Jared had quite a day himself with a beautiful, fat 30-in hard fighting Redfish, a stud 21 inch Seatrout, and hooked up and jumped a big Snook who sliced the leader with his gill plate on the jump. They also caught some hard pulling Jacks, small Redfish, Flounder, and Whiting. I love taking local people out and showing them what they have in their own backyard! It was definitely another blessed day in God's Country!

Joe and Nina were on the boat yesterday. Big fish of the day was a 22" stud Trout!!! Also caught a nice 20 1/2" (sorry, no picture as we did not want to stress out the big girl anymore before releasing) which we released since we already had our one over 19" per FWC. Joe pickup up a few more Trout including a fat 18 1/2' as well. We are finding Trout on the rocky spoil islands and on shallow flats right now. Once the tide came in, we went on the hunt for Redfish and caught quite a few to finish out another beautiful day in God's Country! Capt. Mike

Great day on the water. Catching a bunch of big Speckled Trout, big Pompano, good eating size Black Drum, and multiple Redfish until we got tired of catching them!!! The Gulf is coming alive... it is the perfect time to book a trip! Capt. Mike