Good Surf Trout

[Mell Wader]

Yesteray a friend of mine called me at my office at 8:15 am and said he already had a limit of trout with most in the 3-4 lb. range. I had to be at a meeting at 2:30. So I dropped what I was doing, grabed gear and headed down. Meet him at Pirates Beach and it looked like crap....big waves, off color water. We waded out to the second gut, getting pounded by the waves, not to mention dealing with very dangerous currents created by the east wind. However, as soon as your bait hit the water Trout were blasting it, I've never seen anything like. We fished for about 40 mintues and caught around twelve. Made it to downtown by 2:30. All the trout were fat as footballs.

[45 ACP]

Man thats awesome. Congrats.

[WestEndAngler]

Way to go MW!

[Milkjug]

Awesome, congrats on the first FWE surf runner speck report of '09! Were you fishing live shrimp?

[Mell Wader]

Yes, live shrimp. The current was so strong that you had to have a pretty good size split shot. Once you casted out, the current would pull it laterally within seconds, so you had to have weight to keep the bait down. We had trout leaping out of the rough water attacking the shrimp.

[CarolinaSkiffin]

Awesome report, sux to get pounded by waves but worth it when the rod is doubled over. Sunday Im throwing TopWaters and Corkies, gonna see if I can pull a heavy weight out of the surf this weekend

[Race1Mopar]

You gotta love days like tha! Thanks for the report.
Joe

[Netboy]

I'll just follow CarolinaSkiffin around with the net on sunday..haha

[CarolinaSkiffin]

Thanks NetBoy always appreciated. Oh yeah and thanks for running my errands for me and getting me some more Corkys...haha

[majek_maniac]

Awesome! Sounds like it was fun. Thanks for the report.

[dbarham]

good job the water is green clear to the beach this AM from the pass to the mouth of the brazos, dirtier toward galveston

[007]

Nice report MW!

[GhostDriver]

The trout were in the surf this morning!

[GHSmacker]

Those look like some solid fish, thanks for posting.

[bountyhunter]

Way to go and thanks for the report!