Good Show....good fishing!

We did it all today.  Got sunburned, filled up a brand new pair of waders with cold water, and caught some very solid trout.  After spending a most enjoyable day at the Holder Show in Houston visiting with old fishing friends yesterday, we decided to take advantage of some pretty decent weather.

It was only the second time I have been on Calcasieu since January and they still have their fair share of unwanted debris deposited around the lake.  As a matter of fact, I hadn't taken three steps when I got very much entangled in what turned out to be no more than three or four feet of hog wire attached to a fence post..  The results were predictable and I sat in the boat and dried off while Daryl Briers and Pete Solock caught four trout up to 25 inches on black Catch 2000s.

When that bite dried up we drifted some shallow shell in the Turner's area and kept 7 more trout in the 16 to 18 inch class on fire tiger Assassins.  The highlight of the day, excluding my nosedive, were two trout that Pete did not get to the boat.  He later informed us that he would have taken either of the two to the taxidermist.

I didn't get a real definitive look at either fish as the water was off-colored and we were in a pretty good chop, but both trout were easily over seven pounds and could have been much larger.  Both of those trout ate a black-chartreuse head Catch 2000 in less than three feet of water.  We talked with two groups of fishermen that said they limited on small trout fishing Traps under the gulls.  We never saw any birds working.

We came back through Port Arthur and there were several boats fishing the reef north of the Causeway.  The water didn't look all that good, but that doesn't mean much.  Hackberry is still badly beaten up, but the stretch from Holly Beach to the eastern side of Johnson Bayou will take your breath if you haven't seen it yet.  It's bad even if you have!