Choose your gulls well

I am not  sure, but I think it took longer to ride out to the lake than it did to limit on trout yesterday morning.  The first set of birds we worked were on good trout and they stayed on the surface until we left them.  I had a Texas Roach Sea Shad tied on when we left the dock and never had to change colors.  My customers were throwing DOA shrimp and they never changed either.

We could have just as easily chosen the wrong set of gulls out of three or four choices and caught only smaller trout or at least a mixed bag.  Given that option, we have done better leaving fish as soon as we catch one or two small ones unless we have youngsters on board.  Its all about catching anyway and a 10 pound or 10 inch fish is just one more bite and another tug on the line!

We ran to the jetties only long enough to watch a few other folks catch some fish.  They were catching everything from trout to small Spanish Macs on plastics and live shrimp under a popping cork.  In the brief time that we were there, we caught one 12-15 pound red on a bone diamond 6 inch Sea Shad and broke off another that could have been a submarine as it never stopped!

The water all over the lake is in really good shape and the larger shad are rafting up during the hotter hours of the day.  We have been struggling to catch slot reds thus far, but it won't take them long to find those shad.