Big Lake is waking up!

We took a chance on the weather after cancelling a group and once again the conditions could not have been more perfect.  Had we not cancelled it would have poured and the wind would have blown 30 miles per hour all day. We fished with Frogg Toggs on most of the day, but the wind gave us a break and the big trout were on the move.  Becasue of the predicted wind we made a run to Big Lake rather than fight Sabine. 

We caught trout from the time we arrived until the time we left and never got out of the boat to make a wade.  Ron Harneson caught the largest trout, a fish very close to the eight pound mark, on a chartreuse Corky Devil.  We didn't keep any fish or weigh any, but that guestimate couldn't have been far off  the mark.  We had six or seven more trout in the five pound class and that trout was much larger than any of them..  We were fishing in his new boat and a set of scales wasn't the only thing we were short on!

Most of our larger trout bit Catch V's.  The fish really got active from around ten in the morning until about three o'clock.  We saw two other guided groups catching good numbers of smaller fish drifting soft plastics over the shell.  We found our trout hanging over mud and shell in 3 to 5 feet of water.  Today was the first time in several weeks that we have been able to lower the anchor and catch more than one fish without continuing to drift.

  We also talked with a pair of anglers that had four or five small redfish and sixteen very nice flounder that they said they caught in Oyster Bayou on shrimp tipped jigs.  We saw the fish, but were at their mercy as far as location and lure.  Their largest flounder might have made three pounds, but they were all good solid fish.