Hi all,
I just moved to Texas and I'm interested in catching some Redfish. A few weekends ago, I was out in Matagorda bay, and a small crab floated right past me, just beneath the water surface but high in the water column. I watched this guy drift for a while, and then saw a large fish take him, presumably a red, but the water is a little muddy here. It reminded me of a trout aggressively feeding on a subsurface/emerger pattern. Any thoughts on a fly patter that would imitate this crab? I was fishing a gurgler, and I tried a heavy crab pattern but struck out.