May 15, 2007

Covering All Grounds
May 14, 2007-Woke early, left with a party of two. Fished the surf in several locations. Again, we found bait, water was clear, and the fish didn't show. At least more than three didn't. Reports were similar from others.
Motored into West Matagorda and caught 11 trout while wading grass beds in chest deep water on bone topwaters and dark colored brown lure small devils.
On the way in, a choice to drift some reefs paid off. We caught trout every cast for a solid hour and picked up another 12 keepers to 23 inches using heavy jig heads and any rubber you could find.
The Brown Lure Solo even brought in a nice keeper from the deep water.

May 14, 2007

Back-Up Plan Afternoon
May 13, 2007-Hit the surf for the afternoon and waded it solid for over two hours. Bait was there, water was clear, fish were not there..or failed to bite.
Left went into the bay and boxed six solid speckled trout on plum and white brown lures by keying on frantic bait.

March 13, 2007

Any Questions?

March 10, 2007-Brown Lure Gang

Brown Lure Gang
May 10, 2007-Jake Brown and Clay Ebner, from Brown Lures met myself and Frances at the dock by 5:00. Winds were suitable from the south and we were blazing atop the calm morning's water for West Matagorda Bay. However, I first asked whether they wanted to target big trout or numbers; because both approaches have proved productive lately.
It was numbers they envied and our first wade was made on a sandy bar loaded with glass minnows and other small batifish exploding on the surface. It was the same routine on each wade. We caught fish in spurts; we knew the fish were there and they would bite furiously allowing us to catch four of five between 14" and 22" inches before shutting off again for 10 or so minutes-the wierd cycle continued. I stuck with a purple and white brown lure before shortly making a change to a black and chartreuse small devil when I noticed how off color the water we were fishing was. The highlight of my morning was when my girlfriend stuck her biggest redfish to date-a 6 ½ pounder. I rigged her up a cork and a purple and white devil eye that really worked better for her. Jake and Clay caught several very nice specks. Clay responded with a "Waterloooooo!" after every time he caught a fish; it soon became a war (Laguna Rods vs. Waterloo Rods) when I started yelling Laguna back at him…Laguna won by the way. After catching specks on the edges of sand bars and within grassy guts on the south shoreline we retreated to a backlake and found that even the water within the lake looked dead and void of bait- identical to the south shoreline. We called it a day at 1:00 with two limits of specks and a very nice redfish…..and don't forget the Laguna win.