Fish Catching Travel
After 4 days of fishing on Falcon Lake we got back Saturday night. My friend Clyde, down from Arkansas to fish Falcon with us, wanted to fish the Gulf one day before he left. I will be posting in the next couple of days on my Falcon trip so stop in and read about that one when I get it posted in a day or two. It was a really good time, just like we always have there. But I wanted to post about yesterday first.
We started on my favorite grass banks on the first island in Big Bayou, as he wanted to catch a red on top. That happened almost immediately. It sucked in a Super Spook Jr. like a bluegill taking a bug off the top. Things were looking up, except for the big storm coming our way. It looked ugly, so back to Froggie’s for an hour making sure we did not get killed.
One of the 7 reds that ended up in the box.
We got back out and headed for a deep bank in Big Bayou, and my brother Jeff caught a good trout on the Spook Jr.
Love that Spook Jr. with the feather tail. Thanks to my friend Aaron, who is sponsored by Strike King, for putting me on that one. The feathers seem to help at times.
We caught a couple of fish everywhere we fished in that area, and ended up not leaving it. We fished most of the points on the islands, and also the bank behind the barge canal in Barroom Bay. On that bank the reds and trout were on the edge where the flat falls out into over 3 foot of water.
At this point Clyde was fishing a popping cork with a Strike King Rage Tail Shrimp. And for the rest of the day he whacked them, both trout and reds. He had a 1/16 jig head 2 feet below the popping cork. We used the scent that came with it, and he had a great time. The reds were absolutely eating it, and there was no doubt when you got a bite.
Another victim of the popping cork.
And he also added a flounder for the inshore slam with the trout he caught. A good day for an Arkansas perch jerker.
Let me say something about the Rage Shrimp. I have used a lot of plastics but it is the best bait on a popping cork I have ever used. I prefer the white with the chartuese tail. It is strong and last beyond belief as I have said before. I put a new one on for Clyde and he used it all day, and it is still better than good. He caught at least 10 reds and 10 trout, not to mention pinfish and lizard fish. There is no other plastic shrimp that I know of that will last like that. Try it once and you will see, it catches fish.
Heck, even I got in on the act.
It was actually pretty easy to catch fish most of the day. It was nice after a few bad trips to actually put some good trout and reds in the boat. And it was nice to send Clyde home with a nice bag of fish. I can not tell you how many we caught, but it was steady all day. And I sure hope that the average size of the trout we caught will continue.
As to where, other than the long flat in Barroom it was simple. The reds were on grassy shorelines in Big Bayou in about 2 foot of water. The tide started falling as soon as we got out there, and the water moved all day. It was a good high tide and it clearly had the fish biting. The trout were on points with water moving by, and we had a good bite on the point where you head left into Mitchells’s Cut and Big Bayou, where we caught several trout. I managed a nice red who we saw tailing when I flipped the Redfish Magic in front of him and he ate it. But there was no contest, the popping cork was hot and I hope to get back there in a couple of days.
An Arkansas hillbilly who actually knows how to clean fish. And when you have 12 kids to feed and live in a shack it is tough to feed them all!
So a great way to end our 5 days of fishing. It was great to get him some good salt time with some filets to go home with. This was one of my favorite trips simply because we had a great time, my brother and I have been friends with Clyde since we were 16, and have fished with him in lots of cool places since we were kids. If you read my stuff you know he took us to Canada this year, and it was nice to return the favor. We topped the things off with a trip to Bubba’s. A really great time.
So thanks for reading my stuff. Here is just one of the good ones we caught at Falcon. So if you like nice fish, stop in the next couple of days and I will fill you in on the 4 days we spent on Falcon.
If you like big fish, here is one of the good ones we caught on Falcon. This one came on the Strike King XD5 in the shad color.
Headed home after 5 days of it, a beautiful sunset to a great trip!
Good Luck and Tight Lines!
