The front that rolled in Wednesday night was just what the doctor ordered for trout fishermen on Sabine Lake. I helped Johnny with a group of his clients Thursday and Friday and once again, they hit it just about right. We didn't catch as many big trout as we caught earlier in the week, but we caught a lot of solid trout as well as a bunch of slot reds.
Scott, Jerry, Mark, Toby, and "Mr. Wayne Riley" came with their "A game" and we fished all the way from Lighthouse Cove to East Pass and back. A north wind blew pretty good each morning, but died before noon. We started each day with an outgoing tide, but finished with a pretty good incoming tide. The water south of the Causeway and the water on the north end of the lake looked pretty darn good, but the water on the reef was still ugly.
The front took a little toll on us Friday as the bite slowed on the south end, but we still found enough gull action up north to put together a good box of fish.
This morning I hit the lake at daylight expecting to find a flotilla, but it wasn't very crowded at all. It should have been!
The lake was dead calm and the birds were working over big schools of both trout and reds. Steve Osborne and his son, Jimmy, fished with me and it was just about as good as it can get. When I cranked up the big engine for only the third time this morning we were already limited on trout and had four slot reds in the box. There was a point when we just could not get away from the reds...not that we really wanted to.
We were strictly catch and release by 8:30 and checked out two other areas just to see if the bite was that easy all over. It was. We caught and released much larger trout than we kept by cranking suspending baits and Swim baits over shell in 3 to 4 feet of water for the next hour or so. Jimmy fished A Kwik Cork and jig until it wore him out. It was almost like the jig was too heavy as it did not stay on top very long.
I don't think it can get a whole lot better than it was today, but I talked with a group that was just going out when I was washing my boat this evening. They said that they have been hammering the big trout on an outgoing tide in the afternoon fishing Super Spooks south of the Causeway. They showed me some pictures of trout on their cell phones that they had released and they were big even on a tiny screen. They caught 14 trout over 25-inches Thursday evening and their largest fish weighed just under 8 pounds.
I never fish much in the afternoons as I have either already finished a guide trip or I am baseballing or both. The way the tides are working out right now, however, I have no doubt that the evening bite is much stronger than the morning bite on the south end. I would also bet that the action in the surf was unreal with the Gulf flat.
Hey there, its your pal Jordan. I hear the action is heating up in the lake. We're the birds working in the north end or south end of the lake? Also I was out at the jetties on Sunday. Man it was a parking lot full of boats. Absolutely beautiful day. Saw a few pro guys fishing for a tournament. It was kinda neat to see how they fished. Every 5 minutes they were pulling a nice red into the boat. Get back to me on the birds if you get a chance. Looking to head out this weekend. Thanks man
Posted by: New2TX | June 02, 2009 at 07:30 PM