East Matagorda-April 21, 2007

Drifting East Matagorda Bay did not look very promising today. ;)

April 6, 2007-Lower Coast

A FULL DAY




on the lower coast




1:00 a.m. found us falling to sleep alongside the bay water. I stayed warm inside the sleeping bag, but the mosquitos made me want to leave the camp site and start my night wade. 4:00 a.m. found me casting plugs to brute-redfish and solid specks.




Pearl/Chartreuse Fatboys provided annihalating hits from redfish up to 29 inches and trout to 25 inches on a sand/grass bar.







At daybreak, the boats piled in and we retreated to a protected shoreline. Topwaters produced a speck or red here and there-nothing with any real size.




A switch to a jig brought the action in no time. We spent the afternoon with a release of a 27 and a mixed catch of trout to 26 and redfish. Limits of trout weren't very tough to come by. Trout were rather skinny compared to previous reports and bait was nonexistent. The water was beautiful.




Check out this blooper video!!..memory card was running out and this trout knew it!