Inshore saltwater action segment 4

GULF COAST, Ala. - You really got to flip them good if they're big and your trick is start pulling on them, when the lines still. When the fish is still fully in the water. There, we're going to try and pull them in on this lighter line.

The other fish, looks to be a nice slot red, nice little Outdoors special. You can tell by the dot on his tail, blue on his fins. You could really see them a minute ago, when they're tailing, when you see the blue fins come up, it's a dead give away. And, again, that fish measures out to be, about 21 inches, so he's just right to keep and eat. You know when the fish get a little bit bigger than this, we don't keep them. That was kind of a blind cast based on instinct. Basically, what happened there, was I saw a couple of shrimp pop out of the water, and that was a dead give away. That’s where that school of fish was, 'cause I was not chasing those shrimp, those red fish were chasing those shrimp.

That's exactly what we came over here to do is, catch some good eating size ones, and then we're going to go hunt some big. A couple of pounds easy, cause you have to just be careful when you're dealing with them, because they do have a little of bit teeth, it’s about like 40 grit sandpaper, maybe even 26 grit.

The first three or four times I brought that bait by them, he wasn't interested. Sometimes you got to make multiple presentations, to get them interested. And that's the thing, then you're making a lot of motion with fly rods, that makes it way more of a challenge than conventional tackle and then you have to deal with the cross-wind and you want to make the bait as life-like as possible. Red fish on a fly rod today here on Outdoors.