Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving.  This is the first day I haven't fished in a while and I just finished cleaning reels and eating some pie I said "no" to earlier today.  We'll be back at it tomorrow and it looks like we may get a far better weather day than we will get Saturday!

After just getting our head blown off Monday, but still catching fish, we had just one of those stupid good days Tuesday.  Steve Pullin and his grandson, Alex met me in the parking lot before dawn and we briefly tossed around the idea of canceling rather than trying to time the band of thunderstorms that were already crossing through Houston.  We were out negotiated by Alex and we are all glad that he would not take no for an answer.

Razorback Alex caught his largest red ever in a driving rain!

I bet I put on and took off my Frogg Toggs 5 or 6 times between showers.  The final one set in around noon and we were still catching and releasing three pound trout when we decided that we were wet enough.  We fished the same areas we did the day before, but the fish were much more aggressive.  We caught some in 5 to 8 feet of water and some in 18 feet of water and the largest trout were in the deepest water. 

We started the morning with a 6-pound plus speck and it only got better.  We only had two slot reds and a couple of flounder, but we caught trout until it got to the point that we expected to catch them on every cast.  It was good, but it really got crazy when Steve started crawling an East Beast Flats Minnow or chicken on a chain Sea Shad across the bottom rather than hopping it.  I keep both baits loose in a zip lock bag as they are the same color and I never look to see which one I am using when one gets torn up.

Aaron and Cade started the day with a trout that narrowly missed the seven pound mark!

Wednesday was windier and a little cooler and this trip was another first for me as I fished with four generations of Jablonskis. Aaron brought his Dad, Grandad, three year old son, Cade, and his brother.  It was crowded, but we still had fun and caught fish all day.  We were obviously some what limited in what we could do, but we kept a limit of trout, one nice flounder, and released a big trout to boot.  Once again, the largest trout were holding in deeper water.

The water was pouring out all day and we watched folks at the mouth of Burton's and East Pass wearing out the slot reds as they followed the bait out of the marshes.  Most of them were fishing with mullet, but we did see a few caught on plastics.

If we can get a break with the wind there should be a decent bite under the gulls in the lake tomorrow. We'll just have to go to know!