East Matty Report

Decided to accept my buddy's invite and do a trip with him down to East Matagorda on Saturday.  We arrived to find the south shoreline about a foot higher then a previous trip made on Memorial day.  We launched his East Cape Lostmen poling skiff at 5:30a.m. and arrived on south shoreline at 6.  We immediately entered the water and made our way to a nice sand flat that was about waist deep and began throwing topwaters...floating grass was a problem so I elected to throw a single hooks on a Super Spook Jr.  This amazingly worked great and prevented most grass snags on this flat.  We each managed to catch a limit of trout between 6 til 9:30am.  Also, caught a few on Brown's Devil Eye red tout with white tail under a popping cork.  Around 8 til 10 we had occasional light sprinkles with one heavy shower.  It seemed that the storms were disipating as soon as they hit the coast and most of the lightning was offshore.  We made an entrance into some back lake marshes on the south shoreline around 10, where my buddy Dave caught a magnificent bull Red that went 32 inches and 14 lbs on the boga grip. The water was so high in the back lakes that poling was not necessary and we used the trolling motor the whole time.  We caught some nice trout in the back lakes on topwater, so don't forget as waters cool and this month and tides are high to check out back lakes for trout action too.   All fish caught were released and it was a fun trip.  Tightlines!