Saturday, April 07, 2007
4/7/07
The wind and weather conditions have been horrible as of late. If it's not raining the wind is blowing 15 to 20 mph. I have been using this time to continue my efforts at finishing up my bulkhead project. I've got the walkway finished and have started the stairs from the boat ramp up to ground level, as a note I fish much better than I do carpenter work so progress is slow but it looks good. The word on the water is the Flounder are in their spring migration so if the wind and rain will let you get on the water now's the time to fish. The bull spring tides push a lot of water up into the marsh cane and salt grass where bait hides. When the tide starts to fall the flounder are waiting at the edge of the root systems ready to ambush the bait as the water level recedes. The mouths of bayous and cuts draining the marsh are also excellent places to target Flounder on a falling tide. Small soft plastic swim baits fished on 1/8 to 1/4 oz lead heads always work. For added attraction I aways tip the hook with fish bites or Berkly gulp sent strips. Some anglers use small pieces of shrimp but I like the way the strips stay on the hook much longer and are easier to use. Plastic colors that worked for me in the past are Glow/chart. , pumpkin seed /chrt. ,strawberry/white and limetruse. The tackle I find best suited for pitching near the grass line and making short cast is a spinning set up. When fly fishing for flounder I prefer an 8 wt. set up with floating line and a 8 foot leader for water up to 3 foot deep. For fishing water down to 6 foot I would use an intermedate sinking line with the same leader.
The bait I would use is a Chartruse/white clouser minnow tied on a #1/0- 34007 Mustad hook using bead chain eyes for the shallows and medium eyes for the deeper water.
Hopefully this will be the last cold blast of the year and the weather will stabilize into a solid spring pattern.
Tight lines, Mike ¶ 7:50 PM
The wind and weather conditions have been horrible as of late. If it's not raining the wind is blowing 15 to 20 mph. I have been using this time to continue my efforts at finishing up my bulkhead project. I've got the walkway finished and have started the stairs from the boat ramp up to ground level, as a note I fish much better than I do carpenter work so progress is slow but it looks good. The word on the water is the Flounder are in their spring migration so if the wind and rain will let you get on the water now's the time to fish. The bull spring tides push a lot of water up into the marsh cane and salt grass where bait hides. When the tide starts to fall the flounder are waiting at the edge of the root systems ready to ambush the bait as the water level recedes. The mouths of bayous and cuts draining the marsh are also excellent places to target Flounder on a falling tide. Small soft plastic swim baits fished on 1/8 to 1/4 oz lead heads always work. For added attraction I aways tip the hook with fish bites or Berkly gulp sent strips. Some anglers use small pieces of shrimp but I like the way the strips stay on the hook much longer and are easier to use. Plastic colors that worked for me in the past are Glow/chart. , pumpkin seed /chrt. ,strawberry/white and limetruse. The tackle I find best suited for pitching near the grass line and making short cast is a spinning set up. When fly fishing for flounder I prefer an 8 wt. set up with floating line and a 8 foot leader for water up to 3 foot deep. For fishing water down to 6 foot I would use an intermedate sinking line with the same leader.
The bait I would use is a Chartruse/white clouser minnow tied on a #1/0- 34007 Mustad hook using bead chain eyes for the shallows and medium eyes for the deeper water.
Hopefully this will be the last cold blast of the year and the weather will stabilize into a solid spring pattern.
Tight lines, Mike ¶ 7:50 PM
