Trout apparently bit in spite of wind

Just a quick report for those of you that can't stand it any longer.  In spite of a howling wind that kept my rig on the trailer, I still received two reports from good friends that caught trout on the lake yesterday.  Both catches were made between 3:00 p.m. and dark.

One group found the birds working on the north end of Pleasure Island in three foot swells and caught 14 trout and 2 redfish on LSU colored soft plastics rigged on 3/8th ounce heads.   They said they caught at least half of their fish drifting the same area after the birds left.

The other group had only five trout, but two of them were over five pounds.  They waded the Coffee Ground Cove area and caught their fish on black-chartreuse and pink Corkies.  They pulled off two other big fish that were either very good trout or redfish.

This late cold front might slow both of those bites down over the next couple of days, but its encouraging to know someone can still catch fish in wind like that!