Windy Tournament Fishing 4.14.2012

[buoy37]

Damn the wind!!!!!

We left Lutes at sun up and headed out towards the bay to see what was happening. We made it to marker 35 and we changed our minds real quick. We made a U-turn and went looking for protected water. We anchored at a few spots and only found fish at one. We crept up on a grass shoreline that we could see baby shad(?) getting busted up by flounder. My wife was given a secret weapon and some instructions on using said weapon to catch flounder by a generous angler (thanks Muddskipper) the night before. She put the tactics to work this morning. She worked the shoreline and managed her two best flounders to date. They were both 18" and some change and full of piss and vinegar. These girls hit the bait hard and gave Candace the fishing rush she has been craving. I think the coolest part of the story is the fact my wife targeted these flounder. They were't caught by accident. Candace turned them both in and placed third with her best that went 2.53 pounds. I caught two and turned in one. Long story short, my wife out fished me again (....who's your Capt?!?! )

[Ibtsoom]

Congrats!! It was brutal yesterday for sure. I caught quite a few fish but most were just barely keepers so I didn't even bother keeping them. Maybe the weather will be better for the next tourney -- we're two for two with crappy weather.

[Gulfcoast13]

AWESOME... Great seeing you two again. Give the wife congrats for me.

[Jhua]

WTG!

[Bubbaette]

Wow Congratulations. It's cool seeing flounder and reds busting bait on a shoreline. Sure wish I could have fished the tournament but couldn't find anyone that wanted to go out in the wind. Had thought about just bank fishing somewhere but all my spots would have been fishing into the wind. Maybe next time.

[lurefisher]

Congrats Mrs.Bouy ,good to see ya Bouy at the fish fry,and congrats to the cooks!

[Curmudgeon]

Nice job! It was a howler yesterday!

[TheRooster]

Congrats y'all!! I was wondering how the water was with all this wind lately, glad y'all made it out, I was gonna try and make it out for my first tournament but my job had other plans for me LOL its funny you say that about the flounder smashing the bait, me and 2 of my buddies went to port Arthur this past Thursday and fished Keith lake off of 87 and literally 2 minits after launching my buddy pointed over to the east shoreline and saw fish jumping out of the water and birds slamming the water also, so we slowly make our way over to find out they're flounder that are jumping outta the water like they were Mullet or trout, my 2 buddies said they've never seen flounder jump like that, has anyone else?

[trophytroutman]

Nice flounder

[buoy37]

Rooster -

The water between the bridge and Pleasant bayou was decent Saturday. I heard from jocues that there was some clean patches in the bay.

Thanks to Ibtsoom, I was able to see flounder shooting out of the water last summer at on of his spots.

[fathernson]

Nice fish!

[Muddskipper]

Secret weapons! ....... Shhhhhhhhh.

[castaway300]

Nice going CTC.. as usual you rock...

[evansmarine]

It's always fun when mt wife out fish's me, It gives here something to F with me about. Congrats to Candace awesome job! sorry we missed you guys at the CrawFish Fest. Toooooo Hung Over.

[txkngfish]

Congrats on the flounder. I know I made the blunder of the day... Looked a lesson got to read flyer and weigh-in time better LOL.. Missed weigh in and didnt get to enter my redfish