Fishing West Bay

[iheartfishing]

fishing out of jamaica beach this sat with a buddy's boat. problem is i have ZERO ideas where to take the boat . anyone have helpful suggestions where to "wet" a line? if not, looks like we will be suiting up the waders and try the boat later in the afternoon for a "recon" mission in west bay...

[TTU Wader]

http://www.fishwestend.com/forum/showthread.php?t=122&highlight=west+article

This should help

[Robalo]

TTU gave you some great leads through that link. Try drifting Jumbile Cove just west of Jam Beach. Also, try Confederate Reef area-drift near the oyster boats and fish the streaks. Hope you have a gps/depthfinder so you don't run aground on reefs-straight out main canal into bay and left is shallow and may run aground-I generally stay about 100-200 yards off shoreline. A good idea would be to pull up Google Earth or Mapquest and zoom around-you'll see some channels, reefs and kind of get an idea of what to watch out for. Good fishing!!

[Unclehandy]

I agree with Robalo, hit up Confederate's. Plenty of fish there

[FlatoutFishin]

Confederate was a mud hole yesterday, but if the winds lay it should clean up quickly. If you've got a shallow enough boat, Greens Lake is holding some fish. Just set up for a drift across, and key on birds sitting, or color streaks, clean in muddy or muddy in clean and you should find some.
Boom and I had probably around 12 smaller, but legal trout yesterday and he had 1 decent red at 22", all in about a 2 1/2 hour time frame. I believe all fish came on pearl/chartreuse colors such as sand eel jrs, or swimming baits.

[aqua pimp]

As mentioned by FoF Confederate was a mud hole yesterday. Just about the entire middle of the bay was a mud hole LOL. I would definatly recommend the coves along the south shoreline. The water temp was up a little yesterday and just about every cove I went into yesterday had plenty of surface bait. Even had a few blowups yesterday on tops. Find bait in a cove and you will find some fish. Soft plastic baits will produce more fish but the bigger ones are comming on Corkys and tops. Although I did have one 5 lber on a plum Assassin yesterday. plenty of Reds in those coves too.

AQUA PIMP

[WestEndAngler]

work the coves and south shorline. I was up in Oxen Bayou 2 weeks ago and it was holding some nice fish!

[majek_maniac]

Thats where I'll be in another 8 days. Good results on the south shoreline for this time of the year as well as drifiting mid bay reefs, but everyone has already said that. Key in on mud and/or shell and if baits there, you've won half the battle.

M.M.

[Mell Wader]

Pimp's right, if you see any bait flippin' in the coves you need to fish the area. Water temps vary this time of year. Some coves are holding mud, some soft sand. Where ever it's warmer, the bait is usually there.

[iheartfishing]

thanx for all the tips west end anglers! wish me luck as i get a game plan for this sat. hopefully i will have a report on the fishing and not for any boat repairs... in case u see a boat that looks lost- wave, it's probably us.