South wind 5 to 10 knots. Lake waters smooth!

After nine straight days of a blistering south wind that has already resulted in as many postponed trips as I had in all of May, I might have to apply for the weather man's job at weatherunderground.com.  All you have to do is type in south winds 5 to 10 knots. Lake waters smooth or south wind 10 to 15 knots.Lake waters a light chop.  Someone needs to at least look out the window at their wind sock!

If he or she ever types in 15 to 20 knots, you better pack up the family and evacuate.  It has blown 10 to 15 knots inside the livewell every day this week.  The water still does not look too bad in spite of the steady gusts, but we just have not been able to run much of the lake and nail down anything solid with the trout.

We found some redfish slicking up on both the lake and ICW side of the islands on the north end, but the trout have not been with them.  We tried live bait a little while, but went right back to Assassins and the MirOdine XL to catch all of our fish.  We are catching a few scattered trout, but no numbers. I initially thought maybe the trout had moved into deeper water, but I have changed my mind.

Prior to all of this wind, we were beginning to see huge schools of shad rafting up in the mid-lake area and both the trout and redfish were all over them.  I think that is still going on, but it has been so rough that you just can't run a lot of water looking for them, you cannot see any surface activity between the white caps, and the gulls aren't helping.

I haven't heard any great reports from the south end, but a very good outgoing tide may have improved the bite on the ship channel south of the Causeway again.  I'd love to post a better report, but this wind has me doing a lot more fishing than catching right now. 

Comments

[Robert S. Meier]

If you want a better weather report, one that gives reports in 3 hour increments, try this one. You will be much happier, although I have heard that the underground weather predictions are generally good.
This is better: http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go&sta=KBPT&state=TX

Bob Meier
bmeierphd@aol.com

[Jennifer Racy]

LOL he must have had a few people in the boat. My friend goes to the Jetties and catches the bull reds but hasn't said anything about trout. The reds are all 30 to 40 inches though. The flounder have been between the pier and the causeway bridge along that wall but only a couple hours right before dark. They are picky eating mostly Gulp shrimp and mud minnows. We haven't been in the last couple of nights.

[DSC]

I heard a guy in Tally's Tackle say the ended the day with 72, this was Tuesday, at the jetties. Sounded like a fish story to me.................