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I spent a couple of days fishing this past weekend. I met up with Bruce and Andrew in Palacios to fish Oyster Lake. I had never fished there but can now see why this is such a great winter time fishing destination; deep structure, mud and shell can be found in this area. The weather conditions were windy out of NNE however some adequate protection from north winds prevails in that area. The water felt extremely chilly but we kayaked and waded this area for the whole day. I threw corky's and norton sand eel jrs but to no avail, I could not hook up with anything. Meanwhile, Bruce and Andrew were down the North shoreline about 1/2 mile away and they caught approxitmately over 50 dink trout. Later in the day, the wind died down and the sun popped throught the clouds enough to find some keeper trout on the shell reef over there and they were a bit fiesty in their bite; I landed 3 keeper trout and caught about 5 undersize before calling it a day. The bay was absoulutely gorgeous over there with clear trout green conditions.
Next Day, Craig and I hit Lake Calcasieu in LA for the day and we did some more scouting for some kayak trip destinations. We found the mother of all honey holes over there. We had LA limits of reds to 27 inches and we probably caught another limit each after that....if you had something in your tackle box they would hit it. We had no large trout because we did not get out and wade. Craig did get one trout and a flounder. It was interesting because we met another couple of fishermen at the cleaing table who fished the same area and they had a limit of trout between 4 to 6 pounds plus a limited of reds. They commented that the trout bite was soft but once they took the corky they came alive. That was one impressive box of Calcasieu Trout. We had a great day and had an awesome box of Reds. It felt like a spring day with no wind in the first half of the day and light winds for the afternoon...at times it was like glass on Lake Calc.....sweet destination and I see a repeat trip needing to be made over there real soon!
Tight Lines and HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Jason forgot to mention we had a whole cooler full of bananas -- so much for that theory. I also learned that you can actually buy your Louisiana fishing license over the phone AFTER you have your limit of redfish --ooops.
Craig
Nice job of "scouting". From the results you guys got it looks like we need to put a "scouting" trip on the calendar.
Just a few questions: At what level in the water column were the fish and what did you guys catch them on-corkies?
Thanks for the report and congrats on a fun day. JR
Jim, the reds were pretty much everywhere in the water column over hard oyster shell. They hit anything: gold spoons, paddle tail plastics, nortons under a cork. Two even hit that new Rapala subsurface walker (4 inches below the surface).
The guys back at the ramp with the nice trout said those trout hit corkies -- we just couldn't find the trout.
awesome report! I need to the water, I'm needing a fix.