When we hit the waters early in the morning I wasn't expecting the numbers of Redfish we caught . I was blown away by the amount of Redfish we were catching almost immediately. I had pulled into an area that the day before produced some nice Redfish, hoping that we could get another couple nice ones. First cast = first fish and for the next two hours it was lights out fishing for my clients. A grandfather and his 4 grandsons, ages 7 to 19, managed to catch and release 40 Redfish in just a couple hours. Absolutely amazing! Five years ago I had a group of clients on a 6 hour charter set the all time record for number of Redfish caught on a single trip with 42. This broke the old record of 22 set years earlier. Now here we were just two hours into a 4 hour trip and already 2 fish away from tying the record. The fish slowed down and we had to finally make a move to another area. After the move we continued to catch fish but couldn't seem to find any more Redfish. But with about 30 minutes remaining to fish we finally found some more Redfish and broke the old record catching the 49th Redfish of the day just moments before our time ran out. This was definitely an epic day of catch and release fishing.