Every fish is big when you are five years old!

I fished with Doug Reynolds and Bill Vautrain Friday and we had a pretty solid day.  We were unable to get back on the big trout that we had been catching on the flats, but we finished with a very respectable catch of trout and redfish in spite of the wind.

Doug and Bill with four nice slot reds.

We caught all of our trout under the gulls on the north end very early.  There were lots of birds working at daylight. When that bite slowed for us, we caught our slot reds and a few small flounder working the shoreline and a shell bank off East pass.  We caught a couple of the reds on Hoginars, but most everything else hit a pumpkin or glow chartreuse Assassin or Split Tail.

"So they have spots on em.....huh?"

Today I enjoyed a bus man's holiday and took my eight -year old grandson, Andrew, and his cousins Connor and Jordan, fishing.  We fished cut mullet all afternoon and had a big time with the drum and redfish.  I think they enjoyed driving the boat and digging through tackle as much as fishing, but they did in fact keep score. Jordan is the youngest, at five, but he caught his fair share of their 26 fish.

Five year old Jordan takes his fishing seriously!

They are not the least bit discreet about their fish catching. They loudly celebrated every fish from the initial bite until the the two fighting over netting rights wrestled the fish over the side of the boat.  We did not keep a single fish, but we got our money's worth out of every bite!

The wind blew pretty good all evening and we had a very low tide, but the bite was still very good in East Pass.  I had been seeing gulls working over trout every evening, but they didn't show today.  The water temperature was up to 62 degrees and off-colored well up into the bayous.