Trout trying to cooperate in a very dirty lake!

Very seldom does canceling a trip at the last minute work out best for both parties, but that was the case Saturday.  In spite of the favorable weather forecast, my client sweated out his daughter's playoff game right up to the last minute. They won and qualified for the championship .  I can think of no better reason for postponing a fishing trip.

That gave me a chance to get back out and hunt on Sabine again and we had a very good day.  We ran far enough south in a thick fog to find a little better water clarity and the fish were there.  We started the morning with a couple of nice slot reds, which came as no surprise, and then began to peck away at 18-21 inch trout the remainder of the day.

Had we not spent two hours checking out the Causeway reef we would have done even better.  There was a ton of bait on the reef and fish as well, but we could not make them bite.  We returned to the clearer water( about 8-10 inches of visibility) and the trout were still there.  We had a big incoming tide and there was a lot of bait in the area.  We found water temperature ranging from 63 to 69 degrees.

We caught almost all of our trout on Assassins rigged on one-eighth ounce heads.  We fished a southeast wind most of the morning, it did switch around part of the day, and just repeated long drifts.  We caught fish as shallow as two feet and as deep as five feet.  We missed far more fish than we kept and still finished with 12 very nice trout and three redfish.

The trout may well move again before we can get back out due to the wind predictions, but it was nice to see that there are still trout in Sabine lake.  We got only one bite on the Causeway reefs, but I think they are going to light off in the very near future.  If you have not been on Sabine in a while, cross the pipeline only between the posts designating a crossing area.  The dredge material is within 2 to 2 1/2 feet below the surface on either side of these cut throughs.