Be careful running East Pass where pipe line crosses!

It didn't take long to find the fish yesterday.  The redfish were hunting fishermen, but the trout were a little more difficult to find...at least the big trout were.  I don't know where all the small trout came from, but they were all over the flats.

We had an extremely low tide early, but the incoming tide roared back in around noon.  By the time we left, the surface temperature was 56 degrees and the catching was easy.  We didn't experiment much with colors or lures as we didn't need to.  Most every fish hit either a Flats Minnow under a Kwik Cork or swimming an Assassin DD on a 1/16 jig head.  The water is in great shape.

I am headed back out right now, but I wanted to get this in for any of you that may be headed out this evening.  Johnny was scouting around as well yesterday and hit something solid where the pipeline crosses East Pass.  He was right in the middle of the channel headed into the lake.  He tried to mark it, but couldn't see it just beneath the surface.

When he pulled up on us and asked me to take a look at his chin it was easy to tell that things could have gone much worse for him.  He had a gash worthy of several stitches and it was still bleeding pretty good.  He cut himself when his face slammed up against the rail over his windshield.  As you would expect his neck was a little sore as well, but the fishing was good enough that he stayed out another 2 hours alternating between cast..dab the blood..reel.. put a fish back..dab the blood..cast...dab...dab again...cast.  Even at 65 he can still take a punch!