Fishing with Dad,
Thursday 12-2-2010 was some hard fishing for a few flounder near the boat yards off the channel. We were fishing live mullet and live shrimp, got a few but they were few and far between. We decided they weren't on the move and probably stacked up in the deep channel waiting on some cooler water to move. Friday, we'd head towards San Luis Pass.
Upon reaching the Pass Friday morning about 8:30am and seeing how low the tide was, no trailers or boats in the parking lot and only followed by a john boat who asked if we thought we could make it I decided why not... After sliding the boat off the trailer and trolling towards the exit in my 23ft Haynie I drew a crowd on golf carts who were pointing at me, then the opening, me, opening, murmuring... "Hey... You betting with me or against me" I yell. Guy on the second golf cart yells back "60/40". I yell "Do I got the 60... or the 40???" "oh you got the 40 he yelled back". Luckily with the trolling motor so high in the water the blades would cavitate at anything above a crawl we neared, crested and passed the entrance!! Woohoo were on the water!!! ahhhh the Haynie really does float in 10".
As I dropped the big motor and fired her up I had visions of non pressured fish and all the water we could fish. We stopped at the bridge first thinking flounder. Again we had live mullet and live shrimp but our luck wasn't at the bridge. We caught some huge sheephead and a couple of Pampano but no flounder so we even set up a slow drift pattern paralleling island, casting in front of the boat as to have the bait meet any fish first in everything from 9-2ft of water (running the guts) and didn't have much better luck.
Decided to move on to the channel running along the island by the KOA and the tip of Bird Island since the current was swinging around . It was ok but still slow fishing, a speck, drum, sheephead... let's move.
Shot back to cold pass... hey I think I cut the corner short going from the KOA turning right... depth finder said .9ft... then flash flash... then .9ft... 1.5ft, 2ft... ok back in the channel. Never lost speed. Nice...
Settled on an area of 2ft with quick access to 9ft and 7ft depending on where you cast, with structure. Almost instantly we started hooking up. You could decide what you wanted depending on where you cast. Cast here... speck. Case there... Red.
All said and done the keepers came off of live finger mullet. Juveniles came off the shrimp. Made for some fun fishing even with the juveniles since we probably threw back about 30 undersized reds and maybe 15 trout, 6 or so sheephead, sand trout...
This is what we kept. Made for a great day on the water for wintertime fishing
Thursday 12-2-2010 was some hard fishing for a few flounder near the boat yards off the channel. We were fishing live mullet and live shrimp, got a few but they were few and far between. We decided they weren't on the move and probably stacked up in the deep channel waiting on some cooler water to move. Friday, we'd head towards San Luis Pass.
Upon reaching the Pass Friday morning about 8:30am and seeing how low the tide was, no trailers or boats in the parking lot and only followed by a john boat who asked if we thought we could make it I decided why not... After sliding the boat off the trailer and trolling towards the exit in my 23ft Haynie I drew a crowd on golf carts who were pointing at me, then the opening, me, opening, murmuring... "Hey... You betting with me or against me" I yell. Guy on the second golf cart yells back "60/40". I yell "Do I got the 60... or the 40???" "oh you got the 40 he yelled back". Luckily with the trolling motor so high in the water the blades would cavitate at anything above a crawl we neared, crested and passed the entrance!! Woohoo were on the water!!! ahhhh the Haynie really does float in 10".
As I dropped the big motor and fired her up I had visions of non pressured fish and all the water we could fish. We stopped at the bridge first thinking flounder. Again we had live mullet and live shrimp but our luck wasn't at the bridge. We caught some huge sheephead and a couple of Pampano but no flounder so we even set up a slow drift pattern paralleling island, casting in front of the boat as to have the bait meet any fish first in everything from 9-2ft of water (running the guts) and didn't have much better luck.
Decided to move on to the channel running along the island by the KOA and the tip of Bird Island since the current was swinging around . It was ok but still slow fishing, a speck, drum, sheephead... let's move.
Shot back to cold pass... hey I think I cut the corner short going from the KOA turning right... depth finder said .9ft... then flash flash... then .9ft... 1.5ft, 2ft... ok back in the channel. Never lost speed. Nice...
Settled on an area of 2ft with quick access to 9ft and 7ft depending on where you cast, with structure. Almost instantly we started hooking up. You could decide what you wanted depending on where you cast. Cast here... speck. Case there... Red.
All said and done the keepers came off of live finger mullet. Juveniles came off the shrimp. Made for some fun fishing even with the juveniles since we probably threw back about 30 undersized reds and maybe 15 trout, 6 or so sheephead, sand trout...
This is what we kept. Made for a great day on the water for wintertime fishing
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