As the sun rose on the lake this morning there was a chill of fall in the air.I had high hopes that the North wind had blown some shrimp into the lake. We were going to be looking for schooling activity later in the day. We started out fishing a top water bite that lasted on up around 9:00am. We had a few small trout and small red fish in a protected area on the North end but we wanted bigger fish. We headed West and fished the white caps out from the barrier islands. It was a long stretch before we found some fish, but the ones we found were solid. Tom Hall jr. had never been Speck fishing in his life along with his Dad. Tom sr. had 3 Trout before Jr. showed him how it's done. A well placed cast with a steady retrieve was the ticket for Tom jr's big trout that was right at 5 lb. The fight lasted a while but we finally got it in the net with great relief to me. It's not every day we catch a fish like that. The bone color She dogs kept catching a few fish every time we made the drift over a small flat that had about 3 foot of water on it. A few were under sized but there were some good keepers in there to. After the bite played out we ran across the lake to Willow bayou to get out of the wind. It was calm over there but the Trout action was almost non existent. We did catch one keeper and two throw backs. We decided to go back and fish the ruff water with hopes the wind might have backed off some. On the way across we saw two gulls sitting on the water. I stopped and had Tom sr. make a cast from the front seat, he was hooked up almost immediately. We all got plastic in the water and were hooked up. Greg Procell hooked up with a nice keeper and I think we had a triple going at one time. In the excitement Tom jr. was unhooking a fish and let his jig dangle over the side as he was going to box his catch. To his great surprise the rod kicked up knocked his hat off and disappeared over the side! If you could have seen the look on his face! I threw a bass buoy over the side to mark the spot as we continued to catch fish. There were a lot of small fish there, Specks Sandies and Reds but there were some keeper trout in there. After the bite quit Tom jr. and I tied on HoganAr's and hoped we could snag the reel that was in 8 foot of water. After about 15 min. I felt the line come tight. With great relief to Tom jr. and my self the Shimano Chronarch reel and rod came to the surface. The fish was gone but the jig was still on. I'm glad it wasn't a big Red that grabbed it or we might have never seen the combo. again. We only had 12 fish that would keep but they were good fish and all the action from the small fish made for a fun outing. We called it a day at around 1:15pm.

It didn't matter what color plastic we had on. Glow/chrt., Pumpkin seed, Limetruse they all got bit. I also caught a small Red and specks on the HoganAR when I was dragging for the lost reel. Tight Lines, Mike http://rectorsguideservice.com/