5/24/2008 More wind than predicted

Bill Heugel came down today and gave the Red fish a shot with his fly rod. We had hopes of 10 mph winds or less as was predicted but that wasn't the case. I checked the local weather stations along Sabine lake this evening and found 15 mph gust and steady 13 mph winds were recorded. We fished the Louisiana side marshes in hopes of getting some relief from the wind but it was still a struggle. Bill managed to put 2 reds in the boat along with one small Speckled trout. The water was in good shape but there wasn't any feeding activity going on. Another set back was that the Sun didn't break out until about the time we called it a day making sight casting even more of a challenge. Bill is one tuff fisherman and had to blind cast all day in the wind and poor fly fishing conditions but his persistence payed off. The large fish we were in hopes of seeing never made an appearance but with the tide being as high and rising as it was we were happy to catch what we did. Catching fish is what we go for but it's the other things that make just getting out that much more enjoyable. For example we were working a grass line when we saw this birds nest nestled down in the Bull rushes, I assume it was a Red wing black birds but I'm not sure, the egg looked kind of big to me. Then there were the many Alligators we saw along with the variety of birds that live in the marsh. It's a whole nother world out in the marsh most people never see. Tight lines , Mike