I know there is a gap in the reports and what happened last week must less the day before is of little use, but it looks as though the bite is on again . The better trout are starting to show up and best of all, we have found them all over the lake the past couple of days. Two decent afternoon rains cooled the water off a little and the catching has been fast and furious.
I thought it was going to turn around last week, but we struggled across the weekend after a pretty good trip on Thursday. It really started improving for us on Monday. Tuesday we found fish feeding on top all the way from the Causeway Reef to Coffee Ground. The reds were mixed in with the trout and they didn't care if you threw plastic or topwaters.
We committed to the south end Tuesday and caught a pile of trout, but a lot of them were small. We fished a big group and everybody caught fish all day long, but we only kept 40 trout and 4 redfish. I'll take that everyday, but we were surprised to run into even better schools of fish as we returned home in the afternoon.
Today was maybe even a little better, especially for the redfish. Without a doubt the key to catching the larger trout was having the patience to stick with a topwater and fewer strikes while everyone else was catching a fish every cast on plastic. It has been a long time since I have seen this many shrimp in the lake this time of the year and the fish are right behind them.
We didn't catch a trout over four pounds Tuesday, but there were larger fish on the move today. It may have just been the fact that we failed to fish topwaters Tuesday. From what I understand, the jetties and short rigs were just as good the past two days with even quicker limits, but I prefer to stay in the lake when possible.
This will undoubtedly kill a great bite, but I have Friday open and I don't want to waste it scouting. I have a group tomorrow with baseball that night so I probably won't have time to make any last minute calls. I also still have two days open next week. I hope this is the beginning of another good run, but you just have to go to know!
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