7-18-2008
On Monday Captain Harold put Doug R. and crew on near 30-trout wade fishing with live bait over hard sand and short grass beds. Meanwhile Captain David and Captain TJ welcomed HCB out of Austin for a 2-boat customer destination fishing event. Each boat managed to catch double-digits, majority of the fish were located either mud/grass combo or deep shell while using live bait. That same evening we welcomed Sandra W. and her son along with a friend. Sandra's son is signing up for the Marines and leaves this coming Sunday. Captain Chris Castillo did an excellent job according to Sandra, "This was the perfect trip for a my son, and we caught a lot of trout." I personally pre fished Reagan S. and John for POCO on Wednesday. Our first stop in the dark would be that of deep water over hard sand. Top water and corky devils produced trout to 20", meanwhile Captain Harold was pre fishing Dan B. and John R. and they also landed trout early up to 23" on big top water lures, while fishing deep over sand. We located scattered reds to 25" and finally stuck scores of trout to 18" on both top and Norton lures.
On Wednesday afternoon BFL welcomed 21-guest in with the E Company and their customers for a 5-boat event on Thursday. We also have Chris T. fishing with us as well. Reports to come.
We've been working areas with 2 to 3 feet of soft shell or what I call reef beds. Concentrate casting to the end of the reef or the curves near area reefs. When I say beds, there is a distinct difference between reef beds that are under water and reefs that protrude out of the water. These beds vary in depth but most of them slowly taper from 1 foot to 4 feet of water. Knowing when to fish these beds has been the most contributing factor in my recent catches. Just the other day while fishing someone asked me, why don't you go far distances when you decide to move? I personally think trout stay within a general area. Yes, they will move away from a spot. But if you were catching good numbers and size trout earlier in the day, why wouldn't these same trout move back at a later time or date? This really makes your gears turn upstairs. Getting inside a trout head is what I'm always thinking about, before making any move. Try to visualize what a trout would do if given the same circumstances.
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Capt. Chris Martin
Bay Flats Lodge, Inc.
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P.O. Box 580
Seadrift, Texas 77983-0580
2 1/2-hours south of Houston, Texas
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