James Smith called a day ahead of time to see if I had an opening for this weekend to fish. Saturday was wide open so we left the dock at 6:00am with his wife Heather. The forecast called for light winds and hot temperatures. We thought we would get an early start and be back before the sun got to hot, that didn't happen. The tide was bottomed out when we left the dock but the forecast said it should be moving back in soon, that didn't happen either. We struggled early on but managed some small trout to break the casting practice and a few gafftop catfish to boot.

We moved around the upper part of the lake and found tons of bait along the Louisiana shore line but still no keeper sized fish.Finally at 12:30pm with just 2 keeper trout in the box we found the fish as the tide started moving back in. The South end of the lake was full of beautiful trout green water. We spotted a few birds and soon saw shrimp skipping across the surface fleeing the nice keeper sized trout below. We had 2 limits of 17 inch trout by 2:00Pm but stayed a while longer and tried to box some Red fish to round out the day. We only managed one slot sized Red but caught and released more keeper trout. James got out his fly rod and tied a nice fly on that his daughter had tied for him a few days before. It wasn't long before a healthy keeper trout ate the fly and made our day. The bigger fish seemed to like a Storm wild eyes shad under a popping cork but Texas roach and glow /Chrt. shad tails caught fish to. A silver Hogan AR is what the Red bit.Heather was a trooper and tuffed out the heat with us. She caught so many fish she had a blister on her cranking hand finger. I've worn out a thumb bass fishing but she one upped me his time.

We all had a great time on the water just remember to bring twice the water you think you might need. On another note your Louisiana fishing lic. expired July the 1st so it's time to renew, here's the link for online sales I use. https://www2.la.wildlifelicense.com/start.php?Licensing=1

Tight lines, Capt. Michael Rector