My granddad was a great surf fisherman, so it’s no wonder, my Dad, Paul Braly Sr., got the nickname, “Seine Net”. When he is fishing in front of you, that’s what it feels like if you are behind him waiting for leftovers to come your way, and Saturday morning was no different, when I had the pleasure to get to go along fishing with him.

My dad grew up fishing bait in the guts of the gulf beach and not ever really being a plugger aside from some speck rigs now and then back in the “cooler full and your done” days. These days he doesn’t know what bait is and he can clean an area quick so I don’t let him get too far out in front of me while wading the same shoreline.

On Saturday it was really foggy, but we still managed to navigate safely to our fish hold. We tied on some Pink Hologram Devil Eyes with TruLock 1/16 oz jigs and got underway down our shoreline. A few minutes into our wade we started poppin some 18-20″ trout and the ‘ole seine net next to me doubled up on a pig. The fish hit three times before inhaling the fishing lure and after a couple of minutes we had a 7 pounder for a quick photo shoot and release.

Working our way up the shore, we got a few more in the 2 pound range before an airboat buzzed the shoreline and skipped into a lake that lied ahead. That was our sign to move on, since the action stopped immediately after that. About 8:15, we hit our next stop and half the fog had lifted by then so we could relax a bit and not have to worry about another boat running into us in the thick fog.

I drew the first strike on this wade and thought for about 15 seconds that I topped his early fish, but mine ended up being a redfish with 11 more between us to come in the next 20 casts. We barely moved 50 yards on this wade and wore our arms out on redfish.

In all, we kept 6 redfish and five trout releasing the 7 pounder. Under normal circumstances we don’t keep many fish, but my brother is coming in from the Irving area and asked for some Christmas Fish so we obliged.

I?ve never seen any other soft plastic give that kind of results, since we each only used that one lure, all morning. You can go through a lot of lures with 5-6 redfish back to back per person. Dad and I would have stayed on the water later than 9:30am, if we knew we were getting back just in time to get a list of household chores lined up for us to do.