Red River (North) - Thursday, September 1, 2011

Spent the last 3 days (mon-wed) shore fishing the red as hard as humanly possible.  Made the trek across the state and decided to give Drayton a shot.  Got in about 6 pm on monday evening and the place is an absolute mudhole.  We found that there are 2 spots that were fishable, and one was already occupied, so we made our way through 5 inches of mud for about 40 yards to get up to the spot.  Started out with cut sucker on one line and frog on the either...caught a 4 lber within the first hour, and then my old man lost a decent fish around 10 lbs i suppose.  Then about an hr into the night i landed a 25 lber on sucker which ended up being the highlight of the weekend.  We fished until around 12:30 and landed 2 more smaller fish in the 7-8 lb range.  We were pretty excited about the next day, so we tried our "mudhole" again...what a miserable day it turned out to be.  We resorted to throwing some nightcrawlers out just to get some 8 inch whoppers to show our rods any action.  Tuesday night as I'm sure most every one knows, turned out to be a windy, rainy night.  We braved it until around 8 pm and headed back to the hotel.  We decided to stay one more day and hit GF yesterday...We fished from 10 am until11 last night and caught maybe 7 fish total.  I caught a 7 and 10 lber within the first 2 hours of setting up and then we hit the mid day lull and went around 5 hours without even a slight nibble.  We had our hopes up for the nighttime feediing frenzy but was sad to say that it consisted of 2 smaller cats around 4lbs a piece and then my old man had a very nice fish on that was fighting like a 15+ lber, but she dove under some structure and ended up losing it.  A nice finish to a not so stellar few days.  I'm thinking that maybe we were a little early in our trip planning, or maybe weather played a factor.  All in all we had a good time though...shared some memories...didn't kill eachother..and I caught the trips biggest fish!:)

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Region: Red River (North)

Categories: Fishing