Saturday, January 12, 2008
1/12/2008 Right place wrong time
I've been looking forward all this past week at getting out on the water again. The weather was nice but the wind was steady out of the East. The white caps were just showing so the conditions were bearable. I waited until after 10:00am to launch the boat waiting for the shallow flats to warm up in the bright sun light. My 1st stop at East pass had a water temperature of 57 F. I fished the shell and a break that dropped off into 8 foot of water but couldn't draw a strike on the falling tide. I fished all the way down to Stewts island in beautiful water but found an absence of bait and fish . The water temperature had risen to 60F behind Sidney island but to my disappointment no trout were in the area. There were some mullet in the area that got my hopes up but there weren't a lot of them. I almost had a really bad day as I was leaving Stewts island. I had idled a long way out into the lake with the water about 2 1/2 foot deep. Just as I got on the throttle the motor struck some thing that was solid!I killed the motor and looked for the tell tell oil slick from a busted lower unit but was relived to see nothing. The prop looked OK so back East I headed. As I arrived in Coffee ground cove about a half mile further East than I had gone earlier in the day I found the water had risen to 60F. I threw out the drift sock and on the 2ND cast hooked up with a 15 inch trout. I quickly set the anchor out and started fan casting the area. It wasn't long before I felt a tap on the line and boated another trout. I felt I was really on the fish now. A few more cast and I pulled the anchor and drifted another 30 foot and got smacked with a solid strike on the catch 5 I had been using all day. As the drag peeled off the reel I just knew this was a big trout. By the way it pulled it would be in the 4 to 5 pound class. I was really worried the fish would pull off so I backed off the drag and hoped the fish would tire it's self out. Then without notice the line went slack, you know we have all had that sick feeling before and don't want to believe it so we reel even faster in hopes the fish is just running at us. Well that wasn't the case. Even with a super light drag setting the fish still came unhooked. I never got another strike in 1-1/2 hours of fishing after that. I think I just caught the tail end of the bite. I had fished for 3-1/2 hours with out a strike then moved to another area and had three fish in less than 20 minuets. I wish I would have stayed in Coffee ground cove when I 1st got out. Oh well that's my job to get on the water on a regular basis so I can stay on top of where the fish are moving. Now I know what's going on and the condition the lake is in. To bad I won't be able to get back out tomorrow. I'll be working the CastAway booth at the Houston boat show tomorrow. So if you get to go fishing tomorrow a Chartreuse back, white side Catch 5 is what I caught fish on. I threw a K 2000 and glow/chrt plastic today with out any strikes so the bigger sized bait is what they were looking for.
Tight lines, Mike
http://rectorsguideservice.com ¶ 4:02 PM
I've been looking forward all this past week at getting out on the water again. The weather was nice but the wind was steady out of the East. The white caps were just showing so the conditions were bearable. I waited until after 10:00am to launch the boat waiting for the shallow flats to warm up in the bright sun light. My 1st stop at East pass had a water temperature of 57 F. I fished the shell and a break that dropped off into 8 foot of water but couldn't draw a strike on the falling tide. I fished all the way down to Stewts island in beautiful water but found an absence of bait and fish . The water temperature had risen to 60F behind Sidney island but to my disappointment no trout were in the area. There were some mullet in the area that got my hopes up but there weren't a lot of them. I almost had a really bad day as I was leaving Stewts island. I had idled a long way out into the lake with the water about 2 1/2 foot deep. Just as I got on the throttle the motor struck some thing that was solid!I killed the motor and looked for the tell tell oil slick from a busted lower unit but was relived to see nothing. The prop looked OK so back East I headed. As I arrived in Coffee ground cove about a half mile further East than I had gone earlier in the day I found the water had risen to 60F. I threw out the drift sock and on the 2ND cast hooked up with a 15 inch trout. I quickly set the anchor out and started fan casting the area. It wasn't long before I felt a tap on the line and boated another trout. I felt I was really on the fish now. A few more cast and I pulled the anchor and drifted another 30 foot and got smacked with a solid strike on the catch 5 I had been using all day. As the drag peeled off the reel I just knew this was a big trout. By the way it pulled it would be in the 4 to 5 pound class. I was really worried the fish would pull off so I backed off the drag and hoped the fish would tire it's self out. Then without notice the line went slack, you know we have all had that sick feeling before and don't want to believe it so we reel even faster in hopes the fish is just running at us. Well that wasn't the case. Even with a super light drag setting the fish still came unhooked. I never got another strike in 1-1/2 hours of fishing after that. I think I just caught the tail end of the bite. I had fished for 3-1/2 hours with out a strike then moved to another area and had three fish in less than 20 minuets. I wish I would have stayed in Coffee ground cove when I 1st got out. Oh well that's my job to get on the water on a regular basis so I can stay on top of where the fish are moving. Now I know what's going on and the condition the lake is in. To bad I won't be able to get back out tomorrow. I'll be working the CastAway booth at the Houston boat show tomorrow. So if you get to go fishing tomorrow a Chartreuse back, white side Catch 5 is what I caught fish on. I threw a K 2000 and glow/chrt plastic today with out any strikes so the bigger sized bait is what they were looking for.
Tight lines, Mike
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