September 30, 2025
Crashing The Boards
By Capt. Kris Kelley
Sponsored by: Mercury
Marine; Air Ranger Airboats; Haynie Bay Boats; Baysport Marine Victoria; Castaway Rods; JL Marine; Pure Fishing; Corrosion X; and, Bob’s Machine Shop.
We’ve been cooling things off a little with some hot wade fishing of late taking solid stringers to full limits on Trout and Redfish of late. Broader mid-bay structure remains buried in turbid freshwater with the back lakes and shoreines remaining the go to locations. Historically, we’ve cleared the worst flooding within 4 weeks and while we’re starting to see some minor circulation and saltwater mixing, we’re going to need a wind shift and some big tides to get things back on track over mid-bay structure.
That means we’ll be looking for September cool fronts and northerly wind shifts to open things up a bit. We’re liking the prospects for wind shifts and managed to hit the fish hard on light to moderate northerly flows a week and a half ago. That was a catalyst the broke up schools of tight lipped Redfish and bended the boards for Capt. Chris Cady on recent airboat trips. In Southerly directions we’re picking the pockets of Redfish bumping and running through scattered fish laying up in ambush mode.
Alligator, Teal, Dove, Cast & Blast
We’re finalizing the upcoming September Show Down and hoping to fill a few remaining dates, please contact us for availability.
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Capt. Kris Kelley
Castaway Lodge
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