South wind slows great trout action

She Dogs and lack of wind resulted in these two nice fish

What a difference a day can make. We fished a dead calm lake Tuesday and caught fish all day long.  We caught trout anywhere from two to fifteen feet deep.  The deeper fish were all over Sea Shads and Chub Minnows fished on quarter ounce heads.

We were already close to a solid limit of fish when we ran south to try out the topwater bite and it was on.  The first three trout that ate a chrome She Dog were all over five pounds.  When that bite slowed, we caught them on a mullet colored Catch V.  We finished off the day in the mid-lake area catching and releasing trout up to three pounds that were chasing shrimp under only one or two gulls.

I called Bob Crew in to fish the same school and he called to say that those trout held in the same area long after we had called it a day.  He deserved some easy catching after spending the entire morning towing two anglers from Bridge Bayou all the way to the Causeway.  He launches on the north end so that was a long unexpected haul.  That's the same Bob Crew that answered the call to help us pick up tournament anglers stranded in the marsh last year!   

Wednesday morning the wind was already howling when we hit the lake at daybreak.  We ran the entire length of the lake hoping to find calmer water and a few gulls working on the south end, but it was not to be.  The highlight of the day was runing up on the largest school of surface feeding trout I have ever seen.  We boated six big keeper fish before they disappeared in the white caps, but it was something to see.

We caught our last four keeper fish of the day working small flocks of birds sitting on the water in the Blue Buck area.  The water clarity was going to pot all over the lake by the time we left, but it already looked exceptionally bad in the southwest corner of the lake and along the north tip of Pleasure Island.  Because the water in the bayous and Sabine River still looks so good, I am sure the lake can settle out overnight if the wind will let up.

I postponed today's trip at the last minute due to predicted winds for today and we made a good decision.  It is blowing even harder than yesterday right now.  Hopefully, it will back off some for the weekend fishermen.