The wind has started kicking up again mostly in the afternoons since last Thursday, but the fishing has not slowed down much thus far. the biggest surprise for me has been how long the larger trout are staying shallow each morning in spite of the heat.
We have been catching trout up to 5 1/2 pounds on Top Dogs and Skitterwalks in two feet of water at high noon even on very porr tide changes. I would rather have to deal with the problems associated with fishing a flat lake rather than too much wind, but a little wind really helps the topwater bite in shallow water. Bone-chrome patterns have been very good to us.
Lynesey and Lauren with two nice trout. Younger sister, Jordan, and Mom were hunting shade at this point!
I fished with the Sandow family Thursday and it was miserably hot, but we still caught some very nice trout on both topwaters and live bait. We had everything from small ladyfish to piggy perch in the livewell and the trout we caught were not real particular. With no wind and no tide movement most of the day, fishing live bait in one spot was a little restricting.
We went back to drifting the flats with the wind and making long casts into schools of surfacing shad or working small groups of terns bird dogging schooling redfish and trout well out into the lake. We have been catching trout on a Sea Shad rigged under a Kwik Cork when nothing else will produce a fish for us. We catch a few too many gafftops, but there are enough keeper trout biting to weather the inconvenience.
We are starting to see larger shad and the bite in both the Neches and the Sabine rivers has improved as well. In general it is hot and getting hotter, but the catching has been consistent!
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