Fish Catching Travel
Even though I just fished 4 days the weather looked great, so off the Coleto I went. It was not an early start, around 11:30 with a 5 pm quit time, but the fishing remains consistent.
One of the things I did not mention about the last time we fished was Shoedog started throwing a Chatterbait, and he caught some on it. Now none of us in the boat is experienced with that particular bait, but he did catch 4 or 5 on it. The fish clearly wanted it reeled off the grass, or by an isolated patch, and then dropped. They were hitting it as it fell, and he missed as many as he caught. But it is a bait that is working on Coleto right now, so if you like to fish it, or have one, give it a try next time you are there.
So my intention was to fish it some and see if it would work. With my whole experience being catching one fish on it I really wanted to see if I could figure it out. So looking through my spinnerbait box for one it just wasn’t there. Then I remembered that Clyde had used mine last time. It appears that four flushing, bait rustling, sidewinder took it back with him to Arkansas. There was a black one in there, so I added a Rage Craw, and I actually caught one.
Alternating between the buzzbait and Chatterbait the fish were still eating that buzzbait. Now we fished the snot out of it last Sunday, and until the clouds and wind came were not very successful. Today they were back on the buzzbait.
The first one on the buzzbait.
So of course from then on it was buzzbait. If they want it, give it to them. For the next 3 hours they hit it consistently. And I can not emphasize enough, grass, grass, and more grass. They are still better on the points with big grass patches, and if the conditions are right like they were today, they really move into those big grass flats. One word about that, stay way out on the edge for the best success. Try to keep the boat where you can just see occasional grass and throw to the heavy grass. If you do that you will find them somewhere.
A little more like it.
For the afternoon it was 10 in the boat, 4 missed, and 2 lost in the grass. That is nice consistent fishing. The pictures above represent the size of the majority of them, nothing big today, but you can catch a real solid limit right now.
But things will begin to change as we settled into a more winter pattern. They will quit that buzzbait soon, especially with a couple of more fronts combined with the falling lake level. Spinnerbait and topwater will really start coming into their own, with rattle baits and crankbaits beginning to work. The Strike King Square Bill should be a great choice now, and I will be fishing it some as the winter progresses.
So there you have a quick Coleto report. Looking at our weather it looks like the Gulf will be a real option over the next few days. I am ready to do some serious wading. It is big trout time and since I have not really caught that many I hope to rectify that. I appreciate you reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
