Fish Catching Travel
As you all know I have a serious fishing addiction. And living in Victoria provides an addict like me with the best of both worlds. With the Gulf only an hour away, and Coleto Creek only a half hour, I am sometimes torn as to where to head to. Tough life wouldn’t you say? In fact, I often get comments from my readers that I am living a dream and some of them are living vicariously through me. They are right as I am so fortunate to be in that position. Good luck and a wonderful wife have led me here and I realize how lucky I am.
So I finally decided to hit Coleto today. I think with the fishing so good in both places I may start fishing every other one, every other time. Since I have caught several big bass on Coleto lately, and fished Keller last time, it was a simple decision, throw a buzzbait.
Let me offer a little information on fall buzzbait fishing on Coleto. First, it is not an every cast kind of thing. It is a matter of covering lots of water and making lots of casts. It seems every day that they are in a different place. Second, that place has grass, period. Sometimes they are near grass on the bank, sometimes they are on the isolated patches off the bank in big grass patches, or in grass off the deeper points. You just have to keep throwing it, covering lots of water. Last, it catches big fish. Now at times it can be slow, and you are not going to get a ton of bites, but with some perseverance you can get that big bite. It just depends on how hard you want to work.
Today was no different than I just said. I fished grass in lots of places and caught one here and there all morning. Most of them tended to just pull it under. About 10:30 I caught a nice one I got on video, but on reviewing it you could not see to much so I decided not to use it. About 10 minutes after the battery died, and I put the video camera away, of course I got the big bite.
She was one heavy fish and I can only imagine what she would have weighed in the spring. She absolutely killed it.
This fish, like the other good ones I have caught lately, have been a reaction strike. Reel it by the right clump and they smoke it. But as I have said, it takes a lot of clumps to get the big bite. But it is fall and as we finally get the cooler weather around the corner the fishing on Coleto will only get better.
Now buzzbait is by no means the only answer, it is just my favorite way to catch them. I am sure they can be caught on your favorite bait, you just have to work that grass. The advantage of the buzzbait is you can cover so much ground. By the same token, I keep moving and I am sure I bypass other fish in the same area. I think next trip I will wait until I smoke a good one, then throw a jig or some plastics in that same area. I have not thrown the Strike King Swim Jig lately and it may just be the ticket swimming it around the grass.
I did catch a couple on plastics and 3 on topwater. As they begin their fall feed the topwater fishing should really get going. I know hunting season is here, as is football and all the other things that make fall so nice. But if you get a chance to go, go. And the next day we have with a light rain and overcast after a cold front you can be sure I will be on Coleto trying to catch that really big fish. There is no better time than that.
On a completely different subject I did a really stupid thing this morning. I usually back the boat in the water until I see the back end float, then hop on the trailer and push the boat off as I hop in. So this morning I do it the same way I always do but after the little push the boat does not slide off so I give it a big push, and hurt my back, and I mean good. To bad I did not unhook the safety chain on the bow eye. But I was at the lake so I hobbled back to the boat after parking the truck and crawled in the boat and went. No use wasting a perfectly good trip to the lake. But it sure was hell getting out of the truck at the house and putting the boat to bed. Nice one Doug.
Next it will be either the Powderhorn or Port O’Connor, I’ll probably decide which when I head out. Nothing like making up your mind on the way, you just never know. I do know one thing, the last couple of trips to the Gulf the topwater fishing has been good. We have caught them all the way up till mid afternoon so if you head that way do not give up on it to early. Whether buzzbaiting or topwater nothing beats our fall fishing. So keep on stopping in and I will keep telling you what I know. Thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
