FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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As I prepare this for tomorrow the wind is blowing pretty hard but it is a beautiful day.  This morning was spent organizing the tackle room and all my stuff.  Funny how after lots of fishing things get piled up.  Next it was time to check rods and reels, new line, tackle boxes, all the things that have to be done to keep fishing.  Tomorrow it is off to POC for a day of wading.  After putting the conditions up on the blog tomorrow this one looks pretty good.  Not many days where the timing allows you to be on the water for both the rising and falling tide potential bite, and with it cloudy topwater should be the ticket.  Like we all say, you do not know until you go, and I am going.

Weather

77/64  Partly Cloudy.  Winds SSE 10 – 20 mph.  0% chance of rain.  (Funny how the wind forecast went from 10 – 15 an hour ago.  It just keeps blowing.)

Tides

Low    1:05 AM     0.2
High  11:57 AM     0.9

Solunar Times

Best 1:21 pm to 3:21 pm.    Good  7:07 am to 9:07 am.  (Note how the tide times are related to the tide today.  An early rise bite followed by the later falling bite.  We shall see.)

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Lets start this post off with a comment from Rick.

I’m going to nickname you DH. Man, you are a DieHard fisherman. I got cold just reading your story and its 70 degrees in Austin right now. Hope you make it to POC and the weather treats you better. Would love to hear a POC report.

A diehard, or a nut, I am not sure which.  As far as a fishing report from POC here you go, it was big time fun.

Get Knocked Up!

In the past I have told you about using the Bagley Knocker B topwater, which has become my go-to topwater, and today I could not keep them off it.  The rat reds would not leave it alone and I am not complaining.  The weather looked awesome, and it was.  Sometimes it looks like a topwater day before you leave the house, and except for a couple of casts with the twitch bait, I literally stayed with it all day.

What a topwater bite today!

The water temp was 74 degrees and the wind was blowing around 15 mph out of the SE and it was cloudy.  Wow!  The weather dude got it right!  At daylight, I was the 3rd truck at the ramp, I hightailed it across the bay to fish my favorite drain on the Pringle shoreline.  The water was clear and there was bait moving around in about knee deep water so I headed that way.  The only way to describe the day is below.  I literally caught the living snot out of rat reds all day.  The pictures below are not simply to show you some small ones, but this is a small piece of what happened from daylight until I quit at 2:00.

This is not all of them by any stretch but you get the point.

I stayed on that bank until 11:00.  As I had not been in a while it was just plain a good time as they were following it, rolling on it, and the occasional blow up.  It was rat after rat and I finally said to myself, move and see if you can find some trout.  So I headed down to South Pass, the trout the last few months have been on shell, so I headed right to it.  And it was just like place one, tons of bites on top.

This one absolutely had bad intention when she blew up on it!

And just like place one they were knee deep.  They were not in either drain, but out on the flat where the drain tailed out and it was a simple matter of watching for the bait and wading to it.  There were tons of rat chasing bait, and a good cast to a disturbance in the water got a bite.  I missed way more than I caught, but finally started putting a few trout on the end of my line.

Unfortunately I lost a big trout, one of those that absolutely blasts it then comes to the top with the mouth open wallow, it was a real one.  Though that one made her escape it was not a big deal.  I never got over knee deep all day, they were shallow and on the chew.  With the island slightly protected from the wind, and the clouds, there might have been other baits that worked today, but I just could not help myself.

Maybe 5 or 6 like these on the  second place, was not keeping or measuring so not sure how many would have made the cooler.

The trout were blowing up on it, some of the  bites were absolute explosions.  So I kept after it.  Today was one of those days when if there was some water “disturbance” a good cast often got a good bite.  The fish really do like the Bagley Knocker B, it is the right size and is easy to work.  I would hate to guess how many fish I caught today, but I can tell you my hands and back are hurting and I could care less.  It has been a while and today was everything I thought it would be, conditions were too perfect.

About 2:00 I thought I would make one last cast and then try one more place, bad idea.  I had only re-tied once, and I reared back and off it went in the wild blue yonder.  Stupid when they are biting like that.  Hundreds of fish have fallen for that particular bait and it was my favorite.  I hurried to the boat and tried my best to find it but alas, gone.  So on that note I headed to Froggie’s with a smile on my face.

All I can say is that the bite is on.  So if you want to catch a few fish, or dozens, now is the time.  If you can find a good cloudy day, go before the water warms up and summer gets here.  And pick up a Knocker B, it really does catches fish.  So there you have it.  What a fun day.  When it has been a while it takes a day like this to remind me how much I love watching them eat a topwater.  Big or small, I could give a rat’s ass less, if they will hit it I will throw it.  Peru is only 4 days away and Monday morning a couple of offshore fishing days begins.  Dreams of big fish are dancing in my head.  It really is fishcatchingtravel around here.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines