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May have to try that........woould like to try crabbing in there I like crabbing in that fairly large (for out there) bayou or cut coming out of the left/south side of Johnson's Lake. I have caught as many as 30 dozen in one morning. I don't know if it has recovered from Ike or not but that was a killer spot. Go into that cut toward the old fish/duck camp. When it curves to the right is where we anchor off, just out of the current. That curve is pretty deep also compared to the surrounding area and has some good Redfish in it sometimes. You can sometimes see them come up and grab bait while you are crabbing.

Did they improve the ramp?? Last time I used it was years ago with a 14 ft aluminum boat and remember it being shallow. I've seen boats going out of there that I didn't think could do it. They dug it out and put up the bulkheads.

I worked that construction job at the Keith Lake ramp for several months after Ike. Lots of boats, including some very large fiberglass ones, left out of there. I don't know if it is good or bad but I sure saw lots of boats almost every day.

Is the ramp at the Intercoastal Bridge heading toward Sabine Pass open?

And try to stay outside of the school and drift or troll into is slowly. Nothing worse that working a good school and have some yahoo come blowing right into the middle of it at 50mph throwing a rooster tail.... then idle back and start chunking lures but can't figure out why the fish have stopped biting.

I load maybe three rods with different lures. One with a lead head for soft baits, a Rat-L-Trap or similar cranking lure and a spoon or whatever else has me interested that day.

Yep. That time of the year is almost at hand. If a person can get on the fish at the right place at the right time, it can be amazing. To see so many Redfish or Specks that the water looks bronze in color about the size of a football field..... Then, it really gets heat up right about the time that deer season starts. The lake gets a lot less crowded.

I see boats with a deeper draft than that go in there but that doesn't mean they are smart. The fish pass/canal from the ship channel to the lake should be okay though. If the ramp is back open under the Intercoastal Bridge going toward Sabine Pass, you can run the Intercoastal for about a mile west toward Galveston. That is where Taylor's Bayou dumps into the Intercoastal. It is a hit or miss affair but sometimes the action can explode there with specks, sand trout and reds.

Yep. If I was going to release them, it would be when they are caught not out of the live well.

Yes, it makes a difference. What is the draft on your boat? 1. Port Neches Park is at the end of Merriman. If you know where PNG High School is, just keep going and it will dead end into the ship channel at the park. Go east/right out of the park and you run into the north end of Lake Sabine about 4 miles down the channel/Neches River. In your boat, probably a run of about 8 minutes or less. 2. Same place. Turn east/right coming out of the canal. It is just 4 miles closer to the lake. Left 643 said, it is according to where you are coming from. Nothing wrong with PN Park.

That would save a long run if that ramp is open rather than running from Port Neches Park.

And right on the rocks. I have caught fish so close to the jetties that you wouldn't think the fish would be in that close. I think they go in and pick up small bait fish and shrimp that use the jetty rocks for structure. When I am catching bait fish like small croaker and piggie perch, I toss a small piece of shrimp right up on the rocks and drag the bait into the water. In a few inches of water is where I get my bait when fishing for big reds or sharks. If you toss out a few feet away from the rocks, you will likely get nothing but hardheads. As far as the deeper fishing, I was doing just that but under a cork at night under the lights in the ship channel. The last time I went was about three weeks ago but I was seeing a lot of specks but the smaller ones were coming up near the top. I was catching several in the 14"-15" range. I was using artificial but put them under a cork. I was still swimming them in like I normally would but letting them rest for a couple of seconds. The lure would sink back down to its deeper level under the cork. I would keep the lure at 3'-5' under water. When I would move my rod tip, it would make the lure come up about a foot and then fall back down to the level under the cork. I ended up filling a stringer with specks between 17"-20". I had a hard time keeping my artificial baits that deep when I simply retrieved them but by fishing under the cork, I would keep it down in the zone where they were hitting. It doesn't always work but it worked that night. I was using minnow type soft baits and some fake shrimp baits.

Is the boat launch under the Rainbow Bridge back open? When I fished the north end or the north Bessie Heights canal at the Entergy plant, I would launch there. I don't know since the hurricane.

1. There are other places. It is just hit or miss if the fish are there. This is the time of the year that the birds are about to start working good. Run anywhere from the north end of the lake to the south end and look for birds. If the wind lays down, look for bait skipping across the water or swirls. The middle of the week can be better to get away from other boats but with hunting season starting pretty soon, you might have the lake to yourself anyway. 2. See #1. Yes you can run in the lake. Most places will be from 5-8 feet deep but watch it around the islands up north. You can be in 30 foot of water over the ship channel one moment and then hit 18 inches in a couple of seconds. 3. I kind of think of flounder as bass fishing with plastic worms but in saltwater. Whether you use mud minnows, finger mullet or a plastic jig (better tipped with a small piece of shrimp), you usually toss it near the bank, especially near shallow points on the moving tide. Work the bait slow usually. When they hit or tap it (much like bass fishing), let them move off with the bait and when the line tightens up, set the hook. It is tougher fishing than other saltwater fish but it can be more exciting I guess and I have fished with some guys that are great at it. 4. Other live baits (as mentioned in #3) are mud minnows, finger mullet or even shad caught in a cast net. At times they can be awesome. At other times, artificials are better. I catch more of my fish on artificials but I will catch them any way that I can. 5. My tip... go fishing. I have friends that are better fishermen than I am but even they don't knock them dead every time out. They catch them because they go more than once a month. There are so many ways to catch fish and I am always learning new ones. Some of them I teach myself just trying something new. Also, you'd better watch it around the LA jetties if you don't have a LA license. I know that the laws say that you can fish inside of the jetties but sometimes there are other opinions. And a rookie with a 22 foot Triton?? Is it a center console or what?

When are they ever happy?

As long as they have one to toot.

Here you go, I fixed it for you.

Usually.... If you get there about 30 minutes before the game, there is plenty of parallel parking along the streets behind the visiting stands. What he said except I might lean more toward an hour.

Good game as Nederland moves to the final 4.

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You can upload videos to it also.

I just tried the attachment option available under "additional options" when you make a post. Is photobucket something different? Imageshack.com or photobucket.com or maybe some others. You upload your photos to their site (you create a free account) and it gives you a unique web address to each picture. You paste that address in the response and it will show the picture.