Back in the Big Bend 10/26/07
Posted: October 29th, 2007, 8:50 am
So a bunch of my buddy's are all meeting up at Ryan's beach house at Mashy Sands for the weekend. 3 of us get there Thursday to Fish Friday. We decided to go to Lanark. Wake up at the crack of 8:00am to make it there with the tide comming in. We fished at the end of Lanark reef with so-so results. Ryan and I throw top water for the first hour or so. Ryan hooks up with a 22" red and then Brooks hooks up with a 20" red using chunk mullet. The larger goes in the box with the smaller swimming free!!! I wanted to drift some of the flats but the less experianced fisherman only wanted to sit with his chunk mullet and wait for the fish to come to him. So I fan cast a cajan thunder with a penny colored gulp shrimp. I caught a bunch of dink trout and a couple of 16" keepers. Brooks, who is siting and waiting with his chunk mullet, gets a hit and a short fight. By the way it was pulling I thought for sure he had a hard head, but to my suprise Brooks pulls in a grouper. Yeah it was only about 10" but still a grouper. So we threw him in the box!!! jk. Torwards the end of our time we finally drift a flat on our way back in. Wouldn't you know that once we drift I hook up and box a 25" trout. Well that was our trip. 4 keepers. When cleaning the red there were four fish inside it's belly, and the big trout had one in it's belly too. All of the fish in the belly were 3-5" in size. Maybe that info will help someone....maybe not. Saturday I was itching to go fishing, espically once the water started to come in, but the guys only wanted to watch football all day instead of fishing??? I don't get that. I'd always rather be doing something instead of watching something. FSU game wasn't till 8:00, but they just had to watch every single game on the tv all day. I was hope to some on here and read a whole bunch of reports that said saturday ishing sucked no matter where you were, what you fished with or how hard you tried. That would have made Saturday a little better. It was great to be back in the Big Bend and fishing my old stomping grounds.
Nice trout!