Stars and Stripes Tournament report

Team GCR hit the water at 5:30 and made a paddle the wrong way. It took us about 150 yards to tell that there was no water at the flounder hole. So i made the execuctive decision to turn around and paddle to hole #2 and beached the yak . scuba stopped about 100 yds away from me and i started the day with a pink skitterwalk. 3 blowups later i finally hooked a keeper trout and stringered him just for the fact that we may need him. 16 inches wow. a few more casts and the next blowup was a 17 inch trout and i said ok this is gunna get good. i casted a few more times and had a good blowup and it took my pink skitterwalk from me and i said crap there goes 6.95.lol. i know it was just from the line being frayed because i was using 30 lb. power pro. so i took my second rod armed with a brown lure and second cast another trout. this continued for quite some time and i had 5 trout on the stringer when i said lets move to the marsh and try for reds and flounder. we made the long paddle to the channel entrance and stopped to see if there was anything there and boom more trout. i let my yak drift up to the shore from the wind and when i tried the next cast the lure got caught in the salt grass behing me and it was a backlash from hell. i put that rod down and got the next one out and whammo another trout. thinking that there might be a red further in the marsh we made the paddle a little further and it got really shallow. there was no way i was gunna make it through so i found a gut and started casting up drift and letting my lure swim down stream . whammo another trout. then the skeeters decided it was warm enough to wake up and misery started so i got the hell out of the swamp. i made it back to the mouth of the marsh and set up for anything comming out and caught a flounder . cool its getting closer to a slam now so working on hope i sat and waited for the big red to appear. well it did not happen but i caught a few more trout and another flounder. i counted my trout and it was 10 so i let the rest of the ones i caught go. when i got home and got them off the stringer i only had 9. crap i had a limit and then some. smallest trout 16 largest 18 flounder were 14.5 and 14 7.8. great day and great fun with my team and my friends. JQ