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    Fished the lights

    Well, I've been doing this for the last 4 weeks or so pretty regular. Trout everywhere, popping all over the place. Last time I had any luck though, they were all dinks. Some nice trout in the lights tonight for sure! BUT after fishing from 8:30 to 11:30, I have 2 specks and one white trout in the box. I lost one nice speck at the dock and threw back 2 that were just shy of legal. I threw everything I had in the box at them, even a spoon.

    You can see big trout on the surface all over the place. I assume that, just as it has been the last month what they want is LIVE scrimps. At $20 a quart, that ain't happening. I just haven't been through this long where all they wanted was live. I'm ready for them to start hittin' the arties. I did put on a shad rig with some dead scrimps and brought in some fat croakers and 2 almost legal reds, but the trout are doing nothing but teasing me. What I did catch came on a DOA shrimp under a cork and a tandem rig cocahoe. So, there's my report from Blockade Runners.
    From 1970-1997, true heaven on Earth existed on the banks of Bayou Cook. "Hey Dad, Thanks for buying the Camp."
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    Try a freelined 2" gulp on a small treble hook. Usually works for me!
    Tight Lines

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    • #3
      I have had great luck free lining mud minnows, finger mullet or shad. Barely hits the water and they are on it!

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      • #4
        Thank you Sandy for your report ! Finicky big trout under the lights are maddening . The following suggestions are appreciated .
        GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.

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        • #5
          Nothing in the cast net save for itty bitty minnows, so no live bait. On the BIG upside, I limited on redfish today WHILE watching the Saints lose. Circle hooks are an awesome invention. Had some frozen pogies from months ago and just happened to bring them along. I just went down to check the rig after ever other possession or so. 21, 23, and 24 inches. Now I need to clean fish a mess of fish. LOL. A good problem to have.
          From 1970-1997, true heaven on Earth existed on the banks of Bayou Cook. "Hey Dad, Thanks for buying the Camp."

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          • #6
            Nice problem indeed!
            "Curmudgeon only pawn in game of life."


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            • #7
              Nice going, Coach!!

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              • #8
                Nice Sandy! I need to come down some time. I bet I could catch a bunch of piggies in my trap with all that shell at the base of the pier.

                I'm surprised you kept that 24" red, I thought they were unfit for consumption at such a big size

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                • #9
                  Get someone to dive and retrieve my kayak ançhor .... HAR !
                  GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.

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                  • #10
                    25 inches is my cutoff, and I did think about letting it go but he was pretty tired out after fighting with the dock for heaven knows how long until I got down to reel him in. That and it gave me my limit, which in Texas is rarely reached. We're having the Law family Thanksgiving at Blockade Runners this year and redfish on the halfshell is always the featured dish.

                    I think you may have mistranslated the word pogies. Yes, I said pogies, not piggies. A pogie is probably best known in these parts as a menhaden.

                    Plugger, your kayak anchor is now a permanent part of the natural reef.
                    From 1970-1997, true heaven on Earth existed on the banks of Bayou Cook. "Hey Dad, Thanks for buying the Camp."

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                    • #11
                      DANG, $20.00 a quart? I would hope the price would start going down now that diesel has jumped down in price. Whew. Time to get your own. Lots of them in them marshes.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by small bites View Post
                        DANG, $20.00 a quart? I would hope the price would start going down now that diesel has jumped down in price. Whew. Time to get your own. Lots of them in them marshes.
                        $20.00 is highway robbery for a quart. I wonder what the excuse is to keep the price up. We used to head out two to three hours before we planned to fish so we had enough time to catch bait with the cast nets as kids. But getting older and not having time for anything it's been just easier to buy a quart but might have to break out the nets.
                        "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

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                        • #13
                          I remember a guy that caught shrimp in the marshes using a jon boat, a drag net and got a bunch of them in less that no time at all, most of them eating size. I got the by catch, those crabs they didnt want were way large and enjoyable to eat, pick and savor. I dont know if you can do that now. They, the shrimp and crabs, were caught for personal use only.

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                          • #14
                            My fishing buddy Happyshaker, when he lived in sea isle in the 80s. We used to do just that with a net his old man and uncle had. He did it when we had shrimp boils at the beach house. We would tie up the nets and went trawling in west bay until the back of the boat sagged a bit. Then we would pull them in.
                            "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

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                            • #15
                              Sandy, if they'll only hit live at night and there's a lot of small bait around I'd try the glow crappie sized bass assassin's .
                              I think they're 1" . Might sound crazy but it's worked for me when nothing else will. Just have to re-tie often because they inhale that little jig of course.

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