The catching is as hot as the weather!

I have no idea how I wound up without a party scheduled for today, but I am wasting perfect weather conditions and the bite has just been incredibly good all week long.  To heck with it, I am going anyway as soon as I finish this report. I basically turned my back on the trout, not that they aren't doing their thing as well, and we have just been hammering the flounder and redfish.

We haven't caught any flounder larger than four pounds, but the average fish is in the 2 to 3 pound class and we have caught very few undersized fish.  I honestly cannot say which area has been the best as we have done equally well fishing Black's, Madam Johnson's, the Louisiana shoreline and the river. I can say, however, that the best two baits have been a River2Sea Swim Bait and Gulp Mullets.

The bonus in fishing the La. shoreline has been the slot reds patrolling the same water.  Talk about pressure, Dustin Socha's parents gave him a guided trip for his high school graduation present and after canceling it three times due to weather we picked Tuesday to make it happen.  You can only earn that present once in a lifetime and I wanted it to be as special as his parents did.

Dustin didn't cut tthe reds any slack !

 

It turned out to be even better than either of us hoped for.  Fishing out of a boat was new to him, but he adapted quickly and he went to work on both the flounder and redfish right off the bat.  The flounder gave him a little trouble early, but they paid for it later in the morning.

As usual, you are only blessed with an incredibly easy bite on those days when you are already doing well.....never when you are struggling.  We decided to make one big loop in the lake after putting together a very good box of flounder and reds in the bayou only to run into acres of schooling redfish churning the surface.  Dustin said that is something you just don't see very often fishing from the bank!

Wednesday and Thursday were equally good.  We did leave the flounder alone long enough to catch some trout up to six pounds on topwaters late Wednesday evening.  Thursday morning we were right back on the reds and trout and it was just crazy as both the reds and flounder were chasing the same schools of bait.  Chuck called at one point to say that he and Art Wright were also catching trout up to four pounds on topwaters, but we were having too much fun to leave our bite.

If you can stand the heat I still have a few weekdays open this month and it looks like the wind is finally going to give us a break.  Even if it doesn't, we currently have one helluva Plan B! 

 

 

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