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The Knockin Tail puts trout in the boat!

This is my favorite time to fish all year.  The salt bite is good and the fresh is definitely better than it has been in the summer, and both can be great.  But the thing about the river and the creek is it is a fleeting bite.  When it is good it is very, very, good. but if we get a flood it can be over in a minute.  And no matter what it slows considerably after December. So with that in mind it would be back to the creek on Monday.   The philosophy?  Get it while the getting is good.  (The real reason – the Boss ordered up a few trout for super.)

What a way to start the day.

Weather

72/88.  Cloudy skies becoming partly cloudy later in the day. Winds SSE 15 to 25 mph.

Tides

High   5:55 AM  +1.3   Low   8:49 PM   -0.8.

Solunar Time

Major 8:12 am to 10:12 am..   Minor  3:40 pm to 4:40 pm.

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The tide was super high again, and the water color had not changed.  What had was the water temp which was 74 at daylight, down 3 or 4 degrees.  And with this little cold front coming tonight the drop will continue and it looks like temps will moderate and the nights will finally cool off.

The Mansfield Magic catches trout.

It was definitely slower than last trip, for some reason they just were not biting all that good.  I did have a first, a sand trout on a topwater.  One more jumped on a plastic on the same point so I moved.  I hit my favorite  bank going and coming without a bite.  The water was coming in and was up in the marsh and grass, which had something to do with it I am sure.  So headed down river.

I intentionally did not start where the small trout were the other day.  I just let the wind blow me down the banks tossing the Mansfield Magic Knockin Tail on the 1/8th jig head slow rolling it.  It was one here and one there, most small.  I did catch one on the Knockin Tail White Lightning which I threw for a little in an area with flounder.  And not a redfish of any size, which was kind of surprising, but I did not fish the spinnerbait.  As a side note the spinnerbait is best on a falling tide when the water is just leaving the grass, something I have not seen these last 2 weeks.

I will give them credit what would hit a topwater smoked it!

It was raining off and on, with the occasionally sunny periods.  Funny how it has rained down there the last 4 trips, and not a drop at the house.  Since I was needing a little bigger trout for the fish fry I spent a little time this morning throwing top water.  Around 10:00 there was a little flurry in an area that I usually fish.  I boated 5 or 6 only missing 1, not how it usually goes when trout are biting topwater.  When they were coming for it they were just blasting it like they do occasionally.  I re-fished it with plastics and could not get a bite, which surprised me as they were definitely there.

Around 1:00 I called it a day to head home, clean the boat, and fry some fish for the Boss.  3 is plenty for us and as most of the fish I catch, the rest were CPR’d.  It was a dozen or so this morning and it seemed once the wind came up, and it did, they quit, or I lost them.  Whatever I called it a day.  Great way to spend the morning.

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When the box your baits come in says it is not for human consumption because it has caused cancer in California I assume it is safe to eat in other states.

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I fished Monday thru Thursday before I had to get gas Friday morning.  Both the truck and the boat were full when I started, and when I filled up, $48 total for 4 days of fishing.  I can live with that all day long!

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Our winter ospreys are here in force on lake and river, cool bird.

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Will take tomorrow off and let the front blow through, and then it will be a lake day on Wednesday.  From there who knows, but it will be fishing until I drop.  And it is just over a week out until the Austin Boys come, which means a couple of things.  We will catch fish, and if there is even the slightest chance the weather will suck, it will.   It is always an adventure.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines