FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Tomorrow it will be off to POC early.  Time to get back to the bay, even if I do not have a clue right now as it has been a while.  At least the learning curve should be short tomorrow.  Go to the island, jump in and cast, catch them stay, no bites move, repeat.  That should about cover it but as we all know the best laid plans…….

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Weather

57/67.   Cloudy with a 25% chance of rain.   Wind E 10 – 15mph.  (So wrong.)

Tides

High 2:55 pm  0.9 ft.  Low  3:43 pm  0.9 ft.   (Pretty much slow rise all day then flat.  Weird.) 

Solunar Periods

Major  6:06 am to 8:06 am.   Minor  12:03 pm to 1:03 pm.

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The Wade Right Fishing Belt and the new Madre Sling.

Check out their new tackle box and plier sheath.

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It was just cracking daylight on arrival at POC and the wind was straight out of the north, so much for that prediction.  The water temp was 62 – 65 every where I went and there was a little color to the water.  And the tide was low, as low as I have seen it in a while.  So with the wind out of the wrong direction for the couple of places I had planned on the island, I decided to give the bank in Barroom Bay a wade.

With the tide that low the drop on the edge of that bank, which is where they should be, was perfect.  Unlike “normal” there was almost no flat.  That I would not get bit for an hour and half really did surprise me.  And to top it off a sea fog rolled in and visibility running was not much.  So discretion being the better part of valor I decided to head around the corner and boat fish Big Bayou, which turned out to be the ticket.

The Purple Demon Limestreuse Knockin Tail catches fish!  Fun on 8lb line.

The first bank I tried they were biting.  There was still a Mansfield  Magic Knockin Tail tied on so I stayed with that and started catching a few small ones when a small flounder jumped on.  Tossed him back, and promptly hooked a big one.  Of course the net is in the compartment, so messing with that turned out to be a bad move.  You could not see the Knockin Tail in his mouth, he finally bit me off while I was trying to get the net out.  So when I retied I decided to give he Purple Demon Limestreuse on a 3/16th jig head as the water was in the 5′ range.

They were eating the Purple Demon Limetruese!

From that point on it was really consistent.  Most were small of course, but for a couple of hours it was good.  Deep banks were the best and the fish were about 3′ deep, most were just getting on as opposed to whacking it.  Which I actually like as it is a cat and mouse game.  Super light bite and when you went to hop it off the bottom you had to be ready as they were already there.  And a couple of places where it was somewhat out of the wind, with a soft bottom, had fish.  Here is what most looked like.

The only reason the flounder made the pic is for a slam, even though the 3 I did land all looked like this.

Other than the big red above I only caught a couple more rats.  But the bite was good and everywhere I tried had fish.  I did manage to fish the Oil Cut last, and caught 5 or 6 in there.  Once they started biting it was fun and I left them biting when I quit at 1:30.  It never did warm up and the wind, while not a hassle, kept up a steady pace.

After struggling in freshwater the last month it was nice to catch a bunch of fish.  One thing about trout, they are not the hardest fish to catch, but on the other hand can be hard to hook.  Though the day did not go like I planned, I never did make another wade, it worked out fine.  There was no sense leaving fish to find fish.  It definitely got my blood flowing, and the next trip, coming real soon, hopefully will be waist deep.

So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

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