re: Video of big school of bull reds

I used to hear stories of great redfish schools for miles and always thought they were bullshite.

Then about 2001 we begin to see them south for horn and ship island. I remember one day we caught almost 20 redfish all over 20 lbs a few over 40 in almost consecutive cast. It took about 20-30 minutes to land them as we were fishing with heavy surf rods and 20-30 lb test. (Only keep two of the smaller ones) They were feeding on red minnows and the school was over a mile long and from a few hundred yards to a 1000 yards across. I have some pics somewhere, where you can see the red schools.
I think they are just regular pics as this was pre iphone cameras. On one cast I actually caught three redfish, the first one was a beast and bent my hook, and as i was reeling the heavy spoon in and other hit and i fought him for ten minutes then he got off finally the last one hit right at the boat and he was on for about five minutes. Three bull reds on one cast and none landed. Would have sucked if I had not been catching them all afternoon. We finally just got tired of catching them and it was getting late, and my arm was starting to hurt. We were only boat out there. Really just wore us out. We did this all Summer to the point the charter boats started looking for us that year. I remember one day hearing them on the radio saying "damn that little boat has been on them all year on the radio." My fishing partner (Who is a priest now) and I fished at least a few times every week. Man I miss those days.

BTW, these guys in the video are too close, you want to be outside all the topwater action and be casting on the edge of it so your lure gets underneath all this. That is where the big ones are.

I have been dying to take my kids out and get on them one time. Thanks for posting that, brings back great memories.