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Korbin Strikes Again

Over the last year I have helped my buddy Jeffish work on his boat.  After basically rewiring the whole thing, then some motor work, and finally a paint job, it is running great.  And the best thing is his son, Korbin, had developed a bad case of fishing disease.

Korbin reports he caught these slabs 10 foot deep in his secret spot on Coleto.  It is a great thing that they are fishing together.  It was about at this age when I went fishing crazy, and look how I turned out.  So congratulations big boy, the Bassmaster Classic is next!

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I just spent 3 hours putting a new crank on the skiff, among other things.  Then a complete clean and repair of the trolling motor wiring, followed by my favorite boating job, greasing the hubs.  Having two boats is double the headache, but I should not complain.  No matter what happens we can fish, and having a couple of problems with one boat with friends here, it was just a matter of hopping in the other, saved the trips.  So there will always be a certain amount of whining with money spent and the ongoing challenge of keeping up both boats.  And this afternoon will be the mandatory getting tackle organized.  Fishing 8 times in 2 weeks takes it toll on stuff.

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I got an interesting comment from Steve and I wanted to share it with you.

Good Morning Doug
Last weekend we spent 3 days off shore loading up on red snapper. My girlfriend and myself ended up bringing back about 60 lbs (our share) of snapper filets home to Waco. I was just wondering do you ever fish Green’s Bayou, Middle grounds or Cotton Bayou. I know it’s a long boat ride, but the fishing can be awesome. It’s a huge flat with 13’ of water nearby deep guts and grass. I never hear anybody talk about these places. Must be top secret! LOL  Keep writing and I’ll keep reading. In the past year I have turned a few dozen people on to your blog. For us we can only go to the coast about 10 times a year and YOU do a great service. Thanks
Steve

From what I have seen at Froggie’s, and heard from friends, the snapper fishing is going hot and heavy.  So sounds like you seriously got in on the action.  Red snappers are probably my favorite fish to eat, and you will be eating lots of them.  Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.  I have waded the Green’s area several times, with moderate success, but it is fished a lot by the POC crowd.  The other places I have not for a couple of reasons.  First when the wind is blowing pretty good the run back to POC can be an adventure as you cross the mouth of Lavaca Bay in a flats boat, it really gets up a head of steam.  The other reason is if I am going to make a long trip for the day I head to the Island and down into San Antonio Bay.  I fish a lot by myself and just get lazy and don’t put out the effort I should at times.  Sometimes I fall into that trap fisherman do, take the sure thing, kind of a bigger version of don’t leave fish to find fish.  So thanks for the comment and now I am going to have to try those other places.

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I actually did get to the Coleto for 5 hours Friday.  The boss headed to the sweat shop around 9;30, there was some clouds with rain west of here, so it was time to see if I could get in a little bit before some real rain came.

The last few trips the fishing on the lake has been later in the day so it seemed like the thing to do.  The double fluke rig and an umbrella rig were the plan.  If they are eating shad the umbrella should imitate a school of shad and get a bite or two, and with no deep grass it made sense. Well not so much.  I stuck with both baits for 2 hours and not a hit, zip.  One of those little lessons, they are in the grass knucklehead.  So it was time for a change, back to the KVD Sexy Dawg.

It was raining off and on, the wind would blow one way then another.  One of those put on the rain jacket, then take it off a couple of minutes later.  Then it just cleared and got steamy hot.  But it did not affect the topwater bite.  Until I quit at 3:30 it was at least 10 hits.  Unfortunately there is no big fish picture, but not for lack of effort on their part.  Jerking it by an isolated bush on the tip of a flat point my Sexy Dawg disappeared in one of those no splash and it was gone bites.  I reeled tight and she came out up and here comes the topwater back at me.  Dang it.  Another one just exploded on it and flat missed.  Where were those guys when Voe and I fished 2 days ago?

The white Sexy Dawg catches them.

One did eat a buzzbait, and that one also came out of an isolated bush off the bank.  When the fish are holding to cover like that, combined with the bright sunshine, it is probably time to pitch a Rodent or some other compact plastic.  And the water is finally clearing a little more each day, hopefully the deep grass will start to grow.  From what the weatherman says we may get a long period of rain, 4 or 5 days, and some may be heavy.   The last thing the bay and the lake need is any more dirty water added to the mix.

There are tons of beds right now, with tilapia all over.  If you are a bow fisherman just head into a big cove and you will see the beds all over in the back ends.  And it is finally clear enough to see them and the fish.  For the middle of the day not a bad little outing.  5 on topwater and 1 on buzzbait.   Anytime you can catch bass in the middle of the day in the Texas summer you are doing ok.

This week will be very weather dependant according to the weatherman.  After painting his house and then being on a jury for 3 days he is really wanting to fish.  And the Austin boys are at POC Friday and Saturday and  I hope to pre-fish a couple of days, maybe cut down on their search.  And I love the comments I have been getting.  We all learn something from each of them, so keep them coming.  Thanks for stopping in and reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines