Still haven't fished Sabine Lake!

Brent Reninker checks out Bobby's first fish - EVER!

I fished Tuesday with Brian Reniker and his sons Bobby and Brent and they still can't say they fished Sabine Lake.  The 10 mile per hour wind that was supposed to subside during the afternoon hours only increased.  We tried twice to run the open lake, but it was just too rough.

They can say that they fished all around it, however, as we hit every backwater spot I knew that was semi-protected and finished with a respectable box of flounder trout, and one slot red.  We fished some awful shallow cuts and every available bayou most of the day.  We had a very poor incoming tide which really made us work for our fish.

Bobby and Brent caught their first ever flounder which is a tough fish to learn on, especially with artificials.  It was Bobby's (14 years old) first fish period, but 12 year old Brent had already caught a few bream in his young career. We caught every fish on Sea Shads in Texas Roach, Pumpkin-chartreuse, and phantom-chartreuse.  The largest flounder was 2 1/2 -3 pounds, but all of the flounder we kept were good solid fish.  Most of the trout were in the 16-18 inch range.  We caught a lot of smaller flounder that were still running the banks in 2-3 feet of water.

I didn't fish today, but talked with two other guides that said that conditions were better, but the fishing in the lake wasn't much easier.  The water was still silted up from all of the wind and it was difficult locating the better trout.  There were a lot of small trout hustling shrimp under the gulls in the southwest corner of the lake.