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.