Short pants one day....long johns the next!

I dried out soggy bags of Assassins and swim baits today.  It poured early, but it didn't take a ripping north wind long to blow it all out.  I was initially worried that they had missed yet another forecast and I had missed an opportunity.  They didn't and I am glad I stayed home.

You had to make a bumpy ride to get to protected water the past couple of days, but there was a very decent bite to be had in the muggy conditions.  We caught seven or eight very good trout yesterday afternoon on chartreuse-red head Top Dog Jrs. and a pile of slot redfish.  That is not a color I normally throw, but I was pretty much a spectator and the net man until I switched.  We did catch a lot of our reds on bone diamond Assassins, but I think they would have eaten anythging once they started,

Our largest trout may have weighed five pounds and we never turned over anything that looked any larger.  We were fishing isolated shell in 3-5 feet of water, but we saw some good fish taken right off the shoreline by a group of waders. The water looked great and the amount of bait on the flats only increased later in the evening.

Every time we get the trout half way figured out, the weather changes and so do they.  I hope the larger fish will bunch up again like they did following the last cold front.  We were fishing 68 degree water yesterday and the big trout showed up when the water was averaging about 56 degrees. 

Comments

[John Cobb]

Were these waders walk-in waders? Where, if any, is there walk-in wadefishing on Lake Sabine? I am a recently retro-fitted bass fisherman and have developed a taste for saltwter wadefishing. Last year my brother persuaded me to go with him one day in the surf, and we tore 'em up and I was hooked.
John
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