westend1 Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Posted March 18, 2009 Lot's of trout shallow right now. Keepers? All solid fish in the 16-20 inch range.
tvc184 Posted March 18, 2009 Report Posted March 18, 2009 Lot's of trout shallow right now. Keepers? All solid fish in the 16-20 inch range. Yep.... those'll eat.
westend1 Posted March 20, 2009 Author Report Posted March 20, 2009 Well, I hit Sabine yesterday afternoon and it was a little slow. Caught 5 keepers in three hours, but all solid fish. They weren't a shallow as before. By the way, what's up with all the grass on the Louisiana shoreline? I've never seen it out in the water like that.
643 Posted March 20, 2009 Report Posted March 20, 2009 The grass broke away from the shoreline during the storm, BTW there have been lots of reds caught in the grass lately along with birds off the La side. Better be quick or close to the birds when they start as they wont work long...
MikeEast Posted March 22, 2009 Report Posted March 22, 2009 Yeah we caught some nice slot Reds and trout yesterday in the lake. The grass is the ticket on the Reds,, where there was grass were caught a bunch on chrome/blue chrome/pink rattle traps. There were also a few under the birds with some big fat trout. The birds are a little scarce but they fire up about 2pm and work through the afternoon. If you can get through all the other yahoos like us then there are plenty of great big trout under them. The trick on the Reds is to work the shorline 50-150 yards out where there is plenty of grass in the water. If your rattle trap is not bumping the grass, you are in the wrong spot. The more the better. Also another important trick is to stay off the trolling motor, altogether if you can. We setup carefully for a drift and let the wind take us to the fish, our typical drift was about 1/4 mile because we knew the fish were there and we caught in the same 200 yards stretch everytime. Resist the urge to correct with your TM. If you are out of position, crank up and QUEITLY ease back to the starting point and reset. If you are on the trolling motor with any frequency at all I think you can forget it. Also, I am not sure what the deal is but these are some of the most dramatically colored Reds I have ever seen they are extremely bright orange which makes the spots look even blacker.. They are really something to see right now. We caught a bunch of them in the slot yesterday. I keep trying to post a pic, but its telling me the uploader is full whatever that means.
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