10/9/2006
Tthe weather man forecast 7 mph winds so I headed to the South end of the lake at 7:30am.
The wind was blowing12 mph right down the lake and it was ruff. When I got to the fishing area I had a hard time standing on the bow of the boat it was so ruff. There were a few gulls working so I thought it may have been worth the run,NOT! The 1st cast was with a D.O.A. popping cork, a few twitches and BAM an over sized Red inhaled the cork! It took a lot of drag then it let go and then it ate the plastic and the fight was on again. All to soon the line parted and I got the remains of the popping cork back. I'm going to have to scrap this one. I thought it's going to be a great day.
After that the only thing I could catch was under sized Speckled trout and sand trout while fighting the waves.
Finally around noon the wind started to lay and I could use the fly rod. I found some gulls resting on the water and caught some good sized Sand trout and small specks under them.
I fished this pattern the rest of the day until 3:30pm. The last set of gulls had some really big sand trout and one nice Speck under them.
The picture shows the sand trout that went 1 1/2 lb and 1 1/4 lb. on the boga the Speck was 2 lb. They all ate a #1 clouser fished on Orvis 200 grain depth charge sinking line in 7 to 8 foot of water on a 6 wt rod.All in all it was a good day on the water but if the wind had layed 1st thing in the morning it could have been spectacular.
It's back to work tomorrow, vacation was good and I caught a lot of fish.
Tight lines, Mike  ¶ 5:31 PM