This past Tuesday night brought us Lowcountry anglers quite the gift. A new moon. Like the full moon, a new one creates dramatic tides. Low tide is lower than normal. High tide, well, is higher than normal.
This brought the water onto a marsh grass flat that is always exposed, except for these tides on steroids. The flat beckoned dozens upon dozens of hungry redfish to feed on the crustacean buffet of shrimp and blue crabs.
There's not much better than walking through the marsh on a calm night, being surrounded by redfish that are gorging themselves. That's probably why we only caught one, but it's really just a bonus or at least what we tell ourselves when we don't catch more. The full moon is only two weeks away....stoked.
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The fish liked Crosby's Gulp shrimp over the Gulp minnow. |
