FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Weather

74/86.  Partly sunny and warm with a 50% chance of rain.  Wind  E 10 – 15 mph.

Tides

High  4:18 am  1.6.   Low  5:00 pm  0.5.

Solunar Time

Major 12:21 pm to 14:21 pm.   Minor  6:33 am to 7:33 am.

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Day 4 – 4th Different Place.

After yesterday at the creek I decided to go ahead and see how it was in the Lavaca, and it is basically the same.  Color not to bad, water temp 78, and the tide super high when I dropped in.  And of course pulling away from the ramp it started raining, but that is why I carry the works in the truck so the rain suit was already on so I eased down river.  It was a little foggy, but not locked in.  First up was my favorite bank, and there were a few there.

It was early and wet, but the Knockin Tail Mansfield Magic put them in the boat.

What was interesting this morning is that most of the bites came in the first hop.  In fact until I stopped at one spot late just to see if they were there, none came more than 2 hops off the bank.  And those that did were all small.

I hung up the Mansfield Magic so retied with a 1/8 screw lock and the Knockin Tail Chicken on a Chain.  Like yesterday it was the preferred bait.  Thinking about it now I might have caught 3 on the KTL Bone Ice, and one of those was after I dipped the tail in chartreuse color.  And I did catch one small on the Heavy Metal.  It looks like the tail color being different than the body just might be  the ticket.

One on the Mansfield Magic and the only one worth a hoot on the Bone Ice.  It would rain and then stop, then rain again.

Again like yesterday they just would not hit a popping cork.  What is up with that?  Popping cork on the Lavaca is like a go to bait.  In fact, I caught a nice snook last year on it, but if I was guessing, and I am, we need some cold weather.  A few fish will go in the river at the “usual” time cool or not.  But we need that super cold weather to cool the bay off for real and send them in.  The water up in the bushes might have put a damper on the popping cork, they were tight.  But at least I was catching a few.

Most were like this, and on the last place they were really small.

I spent most of the morning on one long stretch.  The flounder came right off the bat.  The trout were really slow and around 9:00 they started biting a little better.  There was bait moving around right on the bank and it got cloudy and started raining again.  So thought I would give topwater a go just for the heck of it.

This one absolutely smoked the Skitter Walk.

First the nice red above jumped it, the only red this morning, and then 5 or 6 took a run at it with one trout getting on.  It turned out to be the nicest trout of the morning on, but trying to grab it for the picture it hit the deck and back in she went.  Around 11:00 it was time to check 2 more places back up river, one had no fish, the other I put 6 – 8 small trout in the boat.  It was pretty apparent the further up you went the slower it got, and the smaller they got.

Today was nice and quiet on the river, nice not to have high power boats running everywhere.  Folks who fish the creek and river are a little different than the POC crowd.  Sometimes it is nice to really enjoy the outdoors without 50 of your closest friends running you over.

I give the day a B+.  The last couple of days is my kind of fishing.  It is so like winter fishing with grubs for bass.  Light line, drops and flats, and watching your line jump.  It is a subtle way to fish, and like all fishing, once you get the retrieve and color down you are in business.  It is time to really watch the tides, looking for those really low winter tides.  When it pulls the water out of the marsh and bushes on the bank the fishing gets better.  And once you find them it can get stupid easy.  Trout fishing is so like crappie fishing, of course I am not talking big trout, find them and you will catch them.  It is far from rocket science, that coming from me, who just might be the worst trout fisherman in the world.

As soon as I post this it will be looking at the weather and tides.  Then I will make a decision on where next.  I am starting to feel it a little physically and tomorrow will be Day 5, and I can’t wait.  Nice to finally getting over the Covid!  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines