FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

65/54.  Intervals of clouds and sun with no chance of rain.  Wind NE 5 – 10mph.

Tides

High  1:35 am.   Low  5:26 pm.  (Falling all day.  Will be interested in how the water moves.)

Solunar Times

Best  9:42 am until 11:42 am.  (Only relevant period.  Like I mentioned the other day I do not include the general day forecast, excellent, good, fair, and poor.  Last trip the forecast was poor.  Sunday is supposed to be excellent.  We shall see.)

******************Going to feed some bass today on the pearl Jerk Shad.

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While I did not get a chance to fish with the boys in Rockport, I will be meeting John 1, and maybe John 2, in POC in the morning.  It has been a while since I fished a weekend day at POC and it will be interesting to see how it goes.  And the boys had a good day today in Rockport, John said other than a couple of minor moves they fished in one place all day.

All the Rockport fish were harmed in the making of this picture.  And I am sure they tasted great!

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POC

The boys made it to Froggie’s around 9:30 and we were headed out to the island by 10:00.  The tide had already fallen, hours ahead of the low.  The water temp was 56 degrees and in most places clear as a bell.

On our first wade near a drain John and John both had a couple of bites in the drain but did not hook up.  I stayed way out and did not have a smell.  That area has grass and mostly sand bottom and it did not take a mental giant to figure out that type of area was not only not hold fishing it was not warming at all.  It was interesting how the farther out I waded the cooler the water was.  So time for a move to a softer bottom.

Best we could manage of the 8 or so today.

Next up was the flat outside the old Coast Guard station.  We headed out to the point to fish the drop area, and other than a couple of weak bites they were not out there.  So as we waded back we headed in and at least had a few bites.  I did manage to catch a keeper black drum and 3 rat reds.  At this point I was not happy with our results so time for a big change, back to my warm and fuzzy spot, Big Bayou, and fishing out of the boat.

First up was my favorite bank and the trout were there.  One thing that was surprising, the water was coming up, even though it was still a couple of hours from high tide.  I guess that was the effect of the big north winds the last couple of days blowing water out of the bay, but that is my guess.

Headed to the grease in Austin.

The tide pushed the boat just right and the fish were on a drop where it went from 1 foot to 6 foot.  It took a heavier jig head and a big paddle tail, 5″ seemed to be the preferred size, to get them to bite.  It finally settled into a hop it up after the cast and then slow roll it down the drop.  I will give them credit, they were thumping it.  Everybody got in on the act and while it was not fast by any means, it was steady.  We batted about 1 keeper for every 3 or 4, and before it was over sacked 8 keepers.  We also did some red fishing in the Bayou, and though we caught a couple, my good bank was just to shallow and the reds were small.  At 5:30 we called it a day as they had to head back to Austin.

As usual I really enjoy fishing with the 2 Johns.  They are great guys and fish hard.  I wish we had gotten out earlier, and then I had made better choices on our first couple of places.  But we soldiered on and managed to get them a few to take to the house.  When we got to the cleaning table the TPWD guy checked our trout and they were all good.  But it was a good reminder of my general policy, if you have to measure it more than once, don’t keep it.  It was interesting fishing a weekend at POC.  I got the pleasure of parking in Seadrift, just kidding but it was close, and there was lots of traffic.  But though busy it did not affect where and how we fished.  And it has been a while since I fished the bay and come back at dark thirty.

The plan was to take a 3 day trip this week, somewhere.  Unfortunately I forgot I have an appointment on Wednesday, so this week be will work around that.  In a minute I will head out to mail a couple of packages, then clean up stuff from last night, and then if I am lucky it will be the lake for the rest of the day.  Then back to the bay for another go at it.  Maybe even a little earlier start.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines