FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

“SAVE OUR WATERS”

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The Wade Right Fishing Belt

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Weather

65/56.  Sun through high clouds with a 1% chance of rain.  Wind  NE 10 – 15 mph.

Tides

 Low  8:30 am. – 0.35.   High  9:27 pm.  +1.37.

Activity Periods

Major  7:28 am to 8:28 am.  and   12:49 pm to 2:49 pm.  

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The new Knockin Tail Lures are coming soon.  

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Knockin’ is Right!

Since I had a few of the new/prototype Knockin Tail Lures to try I decided the creek would be a good place as they are in there pretty thick.  I rigged 4, 2 white and 2 pumpkin, on a 1/8th glued screw lock.  That was all I wanted to take, plenty to know how well they work, keeping the others for the laguna.  Turned out 4 was plenty.  The lure could not be any better named, yes it knocks, but the better reason, they knock the snot out of it!

Did not get a new camera yet but did take a few.

The plan was to slow roll it, and it turned out to be the only way I fished it.  The first one smacked it, the last one smacked it, and it was game on in between.  Slow rolling it on a tight line it was not the usual bump, tic, trout messing with it, it was a full on eat.  They literally ate it, most with the body in their mouth.  And not only did I miss very few, the hook up ratio to bites was super high.  Get a bite, fish in the boat.

The Pumpkin was first up and after catching a few a “real” one ate right at the boat and I broke 10lb. line setting the hook.  (Dang it!) To keep that from happening again I loosened my drag way up.  When you are slow rolling you are in direct contact unlike when hopping it, so it is easier to break as the line is tight when you set the hook.  So I set the drag so that when setting the hook it would slip big time.  From then on, until I quit, I caught trout.

On my 19″ bass measuring board.  It was several like this today.

They liked the Pumkin a little more than the white, but they were not that choosey, and it may have simply been a function of water color.  There was a little slack period when the tide died, and though the fish got a little smaller, they kept on biting.  Today was an easy low estimate of 25+.  I fished for 6 hours and caught them everywhere I fished until I quit.

Once I got the speed down it was flat fun waiting for them to stop it.  I rarely slow roll but the new Knockin Tail is perfect for slow rolling and that was confirmed right away.  The tail works like a charm.  And one really nice flounder made the boat, plus a nice limit of trout or two.  Guess I never did throw it in front of a redfish.  Right before I quit I lost one more big fish of some sort, but they way they were hitting it  that was only one of a couple that came off all day.

This flounder whacked it!

I hate to tell you this as they are not available yet, but they are coming.  Wish I could show you a picture but not yet.  Sometimes we get to thinking the Texas Coast is the center of the fishing universe, but it is far from it.  There is a big world of fishing out there and today confirmed something else for me.  This is going to be a great swim bait for bass, killer on smallmouth and walleye, plus most anything else that wants to eat it.  This thing is something different that they have not experienced before, and it promises to be the real deal.  I don’t mean to gush like a girl, no offense to you ladies out there, but that thing works!

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The latest assault on our waters comes from San Jacinto River near Humble.  “It” turned the river “mysterious” white color for what appears to be a week.  It contained unknown “substances”, and TCEQ did not test it.  Why?  And with several possible places of origin it is another case of industry polluting from breaks in retaining ponds.  But in the article there is no final resolution, or maybe letting them get away with it was the final resolution.  This happens on a regular basis around this country and until we start holding folks feet to the fire things will not change.  If there is no real “penalty” what is the motivation to change and repair.  The bigger question is often what do we pay our state employees for if nothing really happens?  Just wondering.

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I want to thank Michael, owner of Controlled Descent Lures, for letting me have a small amount of input on the new Knockin’ Tail.  It has been fun and if today is any indication there are good things to come.  Now it is a matter of waiting for the final product.  It not only catches trout, but looks like it will have real application for those of us who are multi-species guys.

We will be visiting the my parents, then the grandkids, for a few days then it will be back at it.  Can’t wait to get to Bird Island Basin and chase some big trout.  Can feel the thump just thinking about it!  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines