Seabrook Flats 10/13/11

[ubermensch1324]

Tiime: 7am-9am, 1pm-3pm
Tide: 7-9 incoming, 1-3 outgoing.
Water clarity: Clear and calm 7-9, slight chop and murky 1-3
Weather: Cloudy overcast
Baits: Pearl/chart/pearl she dog, crazy chart. skitterwalk, chart/pearl corky


Met up with TTU wader at the flats. I think he got there right as the sun came up. I got out there around 7am.

Upon arriving I was greeted to flat calm water so I abandoned the big black ugly spook that I was going to throw. Put on my favorite skitterwalk and went to work. The mullet were probably sized in between small finger mullet and horse mullet - just average. Saw tons of bait in the water just everywhere. Mainly mullet pods and some getting busted here and there. TTU said he had caught 2 or 3 before I got there so bite was definitely on.

As I made my first cast right next to him I asked him if they were hitting tops earlier and he said no. I reeled in not even 5 seconds later sounded like a bucket of water displaced on the skitterwalk and took drag. Ended up being a nice 21" trout and fat as hell.

Continued to cast with a few blow-ups. TTU immediately put on a top water and snagged a nice trout before I could even look over he was hooked up. He hooked into a few more after that as well. TTU had to leave to go to work ~ 9am so I packed up and followed him out there to pick up some things.

Came back from FTU ~1 pm to fish the outgoing tide in the flats. While there wasn't bait getting busted up, I would see the occasional mullet, yes one, getting chased with his tail down so keyed on single chasing mullet which seemed to be the pattern for all my hookups throughout the entire day. Much different situation than before but you gotta adapt.

Caught 3 keepers ranging between 18-22", all very fat. Each one was caught on a direct cast following single jumping mullet like clockwork. Any blind cast resulted in absolutely no hook ups!

Topwater bite turned off about 30 minutes in and they would just slap at the she dog. Swapped to a corky and landed two more trout so a total of 6. I'll take that in seabrook any day! Didn't throw soft plastics so you flounder guys are outta luck!

I'll be out there tomorrow morning if any FWE members want to go feel free to PM.

PS - Took my phone out on the water with me accidentally in my pocket. No coffee this morning bonehead move. It was the old iphone so looks like I'm right in time for the iphone 4s with my contact renewing today and it coming out soonish...yep!

[ubermensch1324]

1 over the shoulder tackle box for the fall/winter time and some pumpkinseed norton sand eel's in my pocket as back up. Keepin' it simple! So, what am I missing?




Jhua you are not allowed to answer

[dPop]

You might want to change the hooks and split rings out on that Black Spook as well as that Jimmy Houston Spook. Just a thought.

[ubermensch1324]

You might want to change the hooks and split rings out on that Black Spook as well as that Jimmy Houston Spook. Just a thought.

Yeah, I better get on that good call. Been neglecting it and not rinsing them down with fresh water so that saltwater has been tearin em up. Thanks!

[Torque]

great report and that's pretty good fishing right there.....

[Curmudgeon]

Nice work, Uber!

[buoy37]

Great write up Sonny. Man, that is right in my backyard. I need to give the flats a shot.

[Jhua]

1 over the shoulder tackle box for the fall/winter time and some pumpkinseed norton sand eel's in my pocket as back up. Keepin' it simple! So, what am I missing?




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Jhua you are not allowed to answer

See ya upgraded to the big box. You are missing one or two things though.

[Termo]

Should have went w/ you yesterday Sonny. I went to Yates Bayou (like we talked about). Jacks were EVERYWHERE scaring off the trout. Out of nine waders, I didn't see one fish caught. Good report tho. Just jealous.

[rscott02]

Sounds like a winner. Good catching uber

[imhammer]

Very nice!

[troutchaser213]

i think i saw you yesterday lol. i was at ftu about the time you were. i was checking out and i think you were talking to alex? lol also i think that was you wading the flats when i got out there. i was in camo waders to the left of you. that was my first time out there so i was just checking things out lol

[Moe]

Good job! I see you're finally learning to pay close attention to what is going on instead of just blind casting all of the time! The learning curve has shrunk and you're catching consistently! Sweet!

[aqua pimp]

Those are fresh water hooks Dpop is talking about... First big trout or Red and those hooks are toast... Always change those hooks before using.

[ubermensch1324]

Good job! I see you're finally learning to pay close attention to what is going on instead of just blind casting all of the time! The learning curve has shrunk and you're catching consistently! Sweet!

Those are fresh water hooks Dpop is talking about... First big trout or Red and those hooks are toast... Always change those hooks before using.

Done and done thanks AP. I'm ready to go for the morning time...thanks Moe that means a lot coming from you...I remember when that spook was all I would have thrown until I was blue in the face....good thing I've learned sometimes u gotta switch it up. I haven't graduated to the mirrodine quite yet but loving that corky. I remembered AP's post when Jhua was like me throwing that top water with 20 slaps at it until his arm fell off lol. Wait, that's still me ha ha ha...