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11-12-2010 trinity bay
Friday had predicted E - ESE winds 9 - 16 MPH , so I decided to fish the east side of Trinity Bay . I don't fish Trinity much , but , after looking at Google Earth , I got some GPS coordinates of likely spots to fish . Stupidly I had forgotten about daylight savings time and so I arrived at Anahuac Park an hour after sunup and launched on the channel side boat ramp . The fishing pier was shoulder to shoulder with experienced fishermen . I headed out the channel and down the old Trinity River channel .
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Friday had predicted E - ESE winds 9 - 16 MPH , so I decided to fish the east side of Trinity Bay . I don't fish Trinity much , but , after looking at Google Earth , I got some GPS coordinates of likely spots to fish . Stupidly I had forgotten about daylight savings time and so I arrived at Anahuac Park an hour after sunup and launched on the channel side boat ramp . The fishing pier was shoulder to shoulder with experienced fishermen . I headed out the channel and down the old Trinity River channel .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V. -
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Once again I put up duplicate pictures...new format . SIGH , Anyway I stopped at some exposed shell with cuts that had the outgoing tide moving thru into the bay . I anchored on the bay side where I had seen some slicks popping up on the channel side of the reefs . Nearby were some waders that looked like a guide's party .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V. -
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I fished the channel side of the reef and worked my way to the reef cut where bait was visible . At the reef point I got a small red and whiting .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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I fished back down the reef on the bay side towards my boat and got a black drum and a couple rat reds .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Originally posted by plugger View Post
So you were potlicking (or meat gazing) the guides? LOL Just kidding Plugger...you know I love you! : ) You must insert humor when telling a story dont you know!Don't be a Nancy!
If it smells like fish....you know I've been there!Comment
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30 yards from the boat I saw finfish skipping on the surface and I cast that way and started hooking up reds . It was a minor feeding period and a school of reds were waiting next to the reef as the wind drove water over the reef. I'd cast to the edge of the reef and work it back and would get a hookup every other cast . At first they were under sized reds , then I started getting lower slot reds . I managed one keeper red and lost 3 others before the school moved on .
GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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I stopped at this island I had fished before and anchored in 2 feet of water and waded around it and back to the boat . On the backside were some shallow reefs and areas of sand and mud . Picked up a dink trout and fouled hooked a stingray .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Don't be a Nancy!
If it smells like fish....you know I've been there!Comment
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I can't get these pictures in the order I loaded them to make a pictorial series for the dialog. But , in calf deep water I saw a tailing fish which when I got closer turned out to be a black drum . I cast ahead of it , and felt my GULP get picked up and saw a boil . The fish took off like a frieght train and stupidly I applied some thumb pressure to the spool and it broke off . Probably an oversized drum . There was a lot of bait at the surface against the bank pictured . Casting into it I landed another undersized red and released it.GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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I then went to a bayou and fished the two channels leading from the mouth . I had one keeper flounder by the feel of it get off . I landed a dink flounder .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Some neat sunset pictures .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Fun day although short with the decreased daylight . Not much to brag about but I learned some new places .GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Nice story and day of catching!Don't be a Nancy!
If it smells like fish....you know I've been there!Comment
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Well, I wasn't actually licking the pot....just standing in it's vicinity .Originally posted by FlatoutFishin View PostGEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.Comment
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Man,,,, Plugger you should write stories for a fishing mag! That one heck of a report..
Good job!Comment
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