Sabine Lake fly and conventional tackle fishing reports & photos
Thursday, March 10, 2011
3/10/11 High Barometer,Low water, Tuff conditionsI fished a party of three today.We
we were one of 4 boats in the group fishing trip. We knew the conditions were going to be ruff but Steve,Lester and Richard gave it their best shot and came up with a nice box of fish by the end of the day.The trout were scattered but still were willing to bite if you got your bait in front of them. We took a break from the wind and ran up river to fish the cuts feeding the marsh flats. We picked up trout and Flounder and managed to stay out of the wind for a while. Around noon the wind had decreased some what so we ran back out to the lake and drifted 4 foot of water fishing Texas Roach shad tails on 1/4oz. jig heads. We picked up more trout and Richard boated another nice Flounder. we only had one Rat Red today but some of the other boats in the party had 2 limits of larger slot sized fish. If you don't own a drift sock you need to get one if you try to fish on days like today.By slowing down your drift speed you can make a more through coverage of the water your trying to fish that equals more fish in the boat. The best colors were Texas Roach and Chicken on a chain shad tails. The popping cork I love so much didn't pay off today either? The fish were up in the water column but didn't like the presentation. The fishing is heating up, don't miss out on a good bite, Go Fish!
Tight lines, Capt. Michael Rectorhttp://rectorsguidesrvice.com/
Saturday, March 05, 2011
3/2/11 Beautiful Day on Sabine lake
I got a call from Dan Oko inquiring about the upper coast of Texas , specifically the Sabine lake area last week. He was writing a story for Texas Highways Magazine to high light what the area had to offer in terms of what to see and do.
I was thrilled he wanted to fish and get an insiders view of the our area. The bite was slow to say the least from daylight until 10:30 AM. The tide wasn't moving then but was starting to move later in the day. The Red fish started doing their thing right on time . The 1st fish weren't real aggressive but shortly after they showed their real colors and gave Dan a good fight with aggressive strikes. I attribute feeling the 1st subtle strikes to the combination of a CastAway graphite rod and PowerPro braided line, the sensitivity is unreal.Dan had brought his photographer Ben Desoto along to document the days activities thru the eye's of his camera. I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished shots he took during the day. I learned several things during the day just watching how he used camera angles and lenses to get up close to the action.
We had 7 Reds in the boat and 6 of them would keep. The Specks were camera shy and never showed them selves. I new of a spot where the Flounder should be this time of the year so we ran over to the marsh where the tide was falling out off the flats. Sure enough we barely got the trolling motor down when small shad were basted into the air right off the shore line. One cast and Dan had a nice 15" Flounder on the way to the boat. We picked up 3 Flounder from that spot, 2 of them would keep.
All in all we had a great day on the water with good weather ,fair winds and hungry fish. Dan and Ben were hungry so we stopped by Peggy's on the bayou for Po Boys and Burgers on the way back to the boat launch.
All except one of the Reds we caught ate Chicken on a chain sea shads pinned on a 1/4 oz.jig head. The other came off a Pumpkin/Chrt. assassin under a popping cork.
I threw many different baits, top waters, crank baits, several colors of plastic but they only liked the Chicken color. All the Flounder liked the Chicken color to. When I cleaned the fish I found they were feeding on small crabs the size of a dime, dark back & white belly.The chicken on a chain must look like the crabs in the fishes eyes. I wonder if we would have done better trimming down the size of the sea shads to match the hatch?
All in all Dan was pleased with the fishing and what the area has to offer. His dead line for the article is March 10th . Hopefully we will get to see our area high lighted in the pages of Texas Highways magazine in the near future.
Tight lines, Capt. Michael Rector
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