Butte 6/23
 

Conditions seemed to be perfect yesterday afternoon, overcast with light drizzle. We put in in the canal around 3pm and on my 4th cast a nice bass smashed my frog. So we thought it was ON! but it was not. We did not boat another fish all afternoon. The water is clear but it looks really black, not sure if thats good or bad. We ended up missing a few more decent fish and had the gar hitting the frogs to keep it interesting. Didnt see many other boats. Not sure what the deal was, at least we didnt scratch. Im waiting on Trev to send me the pic and ill post it. All i have now is a pic of this gator that destroyed his frog and got hooked in the leg.

alligators always make frog fishing fun!! we usually try to make them jump in the boat.. it hasn't happened yet though :(

man a couple were hiding in the bushes and we didnt see them and then there would be a big blow up and my heart would stop, thinking it was a big ole 5lb slaunch donkey

a slaunch donkey!!!??!

haha we going hit up henderson tomorrow. Hopefully put a little hurting on them and possibly go explore some new areas

yea, i heard Mark Zona call a big bass that and i thought it was hilarious. Good luck tomorrow. Let me know how yall do

the lone bass

pretty fish man

yea tough tough tough fishing....I truly cant remember the last time I scratched....humbleing
I cried all night

cried all night lol Hopefully I'll have a different story tomorrow! I think that black water might of been part of the problem for yall.

Yall frown upon black water?? Don't come fish the Westfork of The Calcasieu.. We fish it year around

its just not normal for there, ive seen it real clear before but it usually has a green color to it not black

i'm pretty sure this is a different kind of black water we are talking about here fool. The reason this water has turned black because of its low levels of oxygen and you can actually smell it. Its become close to stagnant in a sense. One way to tell is to look to see if the bubbles from passing boats are staying on top of the water for long periods of time.

I fish black water all the time, but different sort of black and we catch fine.

I know now what your referring to. My canal leading to our marsh is like that kinda. Just stagnant nasty water.

This river is tidal, but black water

so if the bubbles stay for a while does it mean less oxygen or more?

Less oxygen...I use the same trick

right! and thats when i say ok lets go somewhere else because the chance of catching fish in that water is slim to none unless your looking for choupique lol

Or gar feesh

haha yep.. Always plenty of them!

They sure tear up a spinnerbait,pisses me off! haha

Yea very tanic Water....I think its caused by the Nitrogen released from Plant decay which in turn decreases O2 levels......a guy we passed said that their were hundreds of dead fish in the cut leading into the butte

TB