KFDM COOP Posted July 15, 2007 Report Posted July 15, 2007 Wade-fishing loses lusterWith hazards such as stingrays, bacteria out there, boat's much saferA nice school of trout was strung out along the edge of a stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway in the Lower Laguna Madre early last week.They'd eased out of the channel onto the slight submerged ridge adjacent to the flats, and we could regularly pinpoint their location from the occasional scatterings of piggie perch, bay anchovies and a mullet or two.Wading a little more than belly-deep in the wind-churned, murky (for the Lower Laguna) water, Walt Kittelberger and I sniped at the edge of the school, taking a fish now and again on soft-plastic baits hopped through the water column.The fishing was good, considering the hideous conditions — more than a foot of rain had fallen a couple of days before, and the south wind had been howling at 20-plus knots for days. But I was uneasy. I'd have much rather been fishing from the boat.
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