FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Just got done cleaning truck and boat, organizing tackle, and putting the Grand Isle trip to bed.  The lake is on tap in the morning and I am totally amazed at how much it has come up.  Having seen that particular thing happen hundreds of times you never know how the fish will react, or how much color that the lake has.  So it will be up early and on the water.  Let the fall fishing begin!

Weather

92/72.  Partly Cloudy.  10% chance of rain.  Wind SE 5 – 10mph.

Solunar Times

Best  5:30 am to 7:30 am.  Good  11:18 am to 1:18 pm.

Lake Level

Today  97.23 msl.  One week ago  94.16msl!  (As my daughter says – Holy Crap!)

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A GREAT REPORT!

It is not very often you will hear that title when it was a total of 4 fish for the morning.  But there was a good thing – The lake is up 3′.  The water has hit the grass and cover, and the color is workable even way up lake where one would think it was muddy.

One week ago.  This morning.  Might have been just a touch foggy!

On Coleto that is a significant amount of water.  Coming right before fall this morning told me one thing, it is gonna be good.  Real good.

When I got there at daylight it was foggy and the word humid does not describe the morning.  So not being able to go to far safely, even though there was no one else, I fished the first big cove up the creek arm and started with the Bang o Lure as it was dead calm.  And it remained dead calm and hot all morning.

The Wood Storks have hung out a lot longer than usual.

One took a run at it but missed, and I saw a couple of more below it that just took a look.  The water has a brown tint to it down lake and so I wasn’t sure the Bang o Lure was the way to go so I made a decision to fish out the cove with a buzzbait,  And I continued down a long length of main lake and another cover without a bite.

Finally the fog lifted and up the lake I went.  I was hoping no big trash line or real muddy water, and there was none.  The water is back in the cover and over the next couple of hours it was buzzbait, stick worm, and swim jig.  The only ones caught there came right up in the grass and trash, super shallow.

Did not miss a buzzbait bite.

Pitching the worm to cover was pointless, not a bite.  Unlike that last 3 months where that was where they were hanging.  And the ones that did hit were super shallow.  It might be counter intuitive to be happy with only 3 bites up river, and none on the wood, but with the water stabilizing and the color clearing they are coming to the bank soon.  The lake has not looked this good in a while.

These were the size of it.  The last one was on the swim jig.

Around 11:00 it was flat calm, flat hot, and flat humid.  So just to be sure headed up the plant arm and the water was even clearer.  Worked the Bang o Lure over pretty good without a bite, which was a little surprising.  But it was so calm and dead it wasn’t happening.  One did jump on the swim jig and next trip instead of the bluegill it will be time for white.  That is always a good fall bait on Coleto but today one cove was full of small bass schooling on small shad.  As a rule bass go to the shad heavily in the fall and as much surface activity there was it is time to switch.

I am really happy with what I saw today.  Catching fish is the plan, but today just seeing all that water was a thing of beauty.  Of course that is somewhat selfish as I love that shallow fishing.  Now all we need is some cool nights and it will take off.  So I will be watching for one of “those” days –  Cloudy, drizzling, and light wind.

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Billy chimed in with a the rain report.

Right along the coast has gotten more rain than up the country. Lavaca nor Navidad is up much from what I can see. Not real sure about the Guadalupe. But I don’t think it is having terrible run off either.
By that token, the only issue you should have is any runoff from the marshes from the locally heavier rain the coast received.

Thanks for the report.  Since I am headed to the lake in the morning I checked the level, and it looks like it is up 3 feet!  (It was!) I even went back and checked it a couple of times as I found it hard to believe.  So in the morning I might/will be in for a big surprise.  Will holler at you for the coast soon.

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And here is 3 fresh reports.

A boat on Coleto had 31 crappie today.  The crappie fishing has been very consistent on Coleto this summer in spite of the heat.

A friend and his buddies tore up the redfish  a couple of days ago on topwater and croaker out of POC.  He told me the reds were everywhere.

Then a guy showed me a picture of a nice batch of white bass caught on the Lavaca River right before the rise.  Not really surprised just did not know they were in there.  And they also had a nice red and black.

Fall is coming and the fishing is about to heat up.

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Forgot to tell you about the nice thing that happened when I went to buy my fishing license.  I was prepared to shell out the $90 for an annual when the lady said “How old are you?”  Louisiana and Texas have reciprocity for old folks fishing license.  As long as you have your Texas on you while fishing in most of Louisiana it is all good.  Nice to be $90 ahead before starting fishing!

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Looking at the weather Thursday looks good for some bay fishing.  Cloudy with a 40% chance of rain, reasonable wind, and a falling tide all morning is as good as you can hope for right now.  Can you say redfish on topwater?  And who knows, might even catch a trout.  And speaking of adding to the bag it is getting towards the flounder run.  Things are looking up on the coast.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines