I am the dink master!!! 9/17/2009
 

Launched at Cal. Point around 6 am. Slight West wind. Water temp. was 80 deg. at the surface. Hit the old jetties then the mouth of the old river and fished all the way down to T-Boy McCall's dock. Fished a white Sand Eel with a chartruse tail. Caught a few undersized Reds on the East bank. The grass along the bank is full of them. I was in 14 ft. of water chunking towards the grass. Tide was going out, water was green and could see a little over a foot down. Lots of finger mullet schools here, but no Specks.
Moved to the ship channel below the pogy plant. Fished the West bank all the way to Speckdaddy's hole. There was 2 guys wade fishing his spot. Nothing there but millions of tiny pogy. By this time the winds were starting to pick up. I hit the outside of the East side of the jetties to get out of the wind. Nothing there. Only one boat at the jetties. Hit the Monkey Island Point, nothing. Hit Jsmokes day marker, nothing. The ship channel below the pogy plant was milky green, couldn't see far down at all. The jetties was dirty. I called a couple shrimpers who were between Cameron and Holly Beach, about 1.5 miles out and they said the water was pretty chocolate over there and they were not catching any bait or fish. Just shrimp and jelly fish.
Moved to Long Point around 9 am. I only caught fish pretty far East of the bank. I was outside of a line of crab pots. When I went towards the bank, no fish hit my lures. Changed to the silver and gray sparkley Brown lure with big eyes. That was the trick. Threw back 3 legal dinks and after I caught the 4th, I figured if'n I would have kept the other 3, it would make for a good fried fish supper. I kept the rest of the legal specks in the live well. Only 1 of them was big enough to not measure. Counted out 12 specks. Needed 3 more. I put all of them in on ice and continued fishing.
Got my last 3 and put them in the live well and hit the reef due West of Commissary Point. Caught 4 Sand Trout on a Sparkle Beetle with chartruese tail. Kept them all and went to try Turners Bay. At this point, the winds were too high for me to fish there so I went up into the LNG Canal. Winds were too high there too, so I went back to Cal. Point and cleaned the fish.
I put them in a gallon bag and brought home. My neighbor says that I probably could have used a quart bag.
Anyway, fresh fried fish tonight.
Looks like Long Point or Rabbit Island tomorrow, if I can find clean water.
I saw one boat at the jetties, one boat at Monkey Island and one heading to the jetties. I saw two boats at the old jetties and 4 boats at Long Point. I saw 2 more at the reef west of Heberts and one boat at Turners Bay. Saw 2 more where the ICW hits the ship channel. Not many boats fishing today.
I saw no boat trailers at the jetty boat launch, 2 at the ferry launch and I was the only one at Cal. Point when I launched at 6 am, but there was 5 other trucks and trailers at noon when I pulled out.

think maybe you could give us at least a few details when you go out next time? lol

lol detailed report ray... thanks bro... i;ll be out saturday !!!

great report thanks for posting

Now thats a report!

i feel like i was there fishing with you. you are the tom clancy of the fishing report

lol... me too... he gotta nice boat !!!!

Gerald and I are going tomorrow morning. If weather permits.
I was supposed to take "No Show" George Jones this morning, but he didn't show up.
The boat is ready, I am ready. I need to get a few days of fishing out of my system
after being at work for 2 weeks.

Nice full report!
 

Nice report! Maybe I should start posting all those kinds of details to help everyone out. Very informative!

Nasty, you still want to go Sat. if the weather is good???
You can help me with my spelling and grammer.

We just finished eating fresh fried fish, french fries(real, not frozen) and some big brownies. I am so freakin full, I am about to pop.

Good report Ray

Ray was also nice enough to not mention that I set my alarm clock for 4 PM instead of 4 AM. When I called Ray at 5:30 AM he was headed to Calcasieu Point landind. We decided to reschedule.

I was geared up to go fishing and finally decided to try fishing the I-210 area. I tried Lake Charles but only caught one Gaftop and a white trout there. The water was stained but was clear.

I moved farther south and caught a Trout and Red on one point. I tried Contraband bayou.....1 small trout.

I move to the rocks by the casino and caught a couple of Trout. I tried some of the old river bends and caught several more Trout and a few more Reds. I broke off twice when I hooked nice big Reds......I had respooled last week, so the line must have had a frayed spot.

I could see my bait about 18" down in most areas.

I ended up with 6 Trout [13" to 19"] and 5 Reds [17" to 21"]. The fish were caught on several different soft plastic and live bait on the bottom.

Now thats how you give reports.
Thanks guys.

good report there Ray and I am glad you got to go fishing today:p

awesome report...thanks for detailing it...help us fisherman that don't have a clue where to start fishin lol

I'm glad I got to go too. It is 5 am right now and the winds are calm.
I am waiting on Gerald and we are going to hit the lake again today.

You don't know how clueless I am too.:help:

3 weeks ago, the water temp was 86 deg. Yesterday 80 deg. Looking good for trout.

Hmmm............trying to steal my name there???? Good report..........sounds fun............Good job Ray

Ray----Thank for the fishing trip today.

The winds were fairly good today [~10 +/-mph] and cloudy most of the day. We left the launch before 6 AM and ran down to the south end and started fishing just as it was starting to get light.

The first 45 minutes only produced one blowup on my topwater and Ray caught a small trout on soft plastic. We moved to where Ray had caught a bunch of rat Reds yesterday and we only had a few bumps with soft plastic.

We then headed to Long Point, where Ray caught some trout yesterday. This area only produce 1 trout for each of us.......so we finally had fish on ice.

We then headed to Grand Bayou and found the water to be pouring out of the marsh. When we got to the weir, it looked like we were the last boat to arrive. Both sides of the weir were filled with boats [amazing...everyone was legal]. We caught some bait, in hopes of catching more fish at Lambert's bayou. When we got to this weir....we were the only boat there on the marsh side. I think Ray caught 1 trout and I caught a Red and Drum using the live bait before we had other boats show up there. While still anchored at the weir, Ray caught another nice Red on soft plastic while casting away from the weir into the area of the old washout.

Two boats there were almost funny to watch what they were doing. One boat with 3 middle age men, could not decide where they wanted to cast net for bait. They kept moving around and went up to the weir twice. The other boat with a guy and 3 ladies, probably set a Lambert bayou record...........anchor throw. The guy threw the anchor 15.3 feet from the boat. Then after deciding they needed to reposition a little, the second anchor throw was only about 10 feet. Not to be out done....when they moved over a little ways the third time, one of the lady successfully made a respectable 9 foot anchor throw.

As far as fish catching....the 3 men only caught a couple of small fish. But the boat with the 3 ladies, after moving 3 times in 45 minutes -----with anchor throws each time----the ladies probably caught 6 or 8 fish and most went in the ice chest.

With all this activity going on, we left to try another spot in the marsh. While fishing along the marsh grass with soft plastic, Ray's bait got caught on something but he was able to pull it towards the boat. When he got the bait more than half way to the boat he finally realized it was a fish on his line and I got the net when we realized it was a big Flounder. A little while later, he caught another flounder almost the same size. Both fish were a little under 4 lbs.

After what seamed like a 100 cast later, I hooked a big Red but It got off after making a short run and pulling drag. A little later I swithed to a secret Flounder catching bait......a small gold spinner bait with a Yellow red dot split tail grub on a 1/4 oz jig. [1 /8 oz may have been better]. I then caught 3 Flounder and Ray picked up nice 29" Red using the same silver and gray sparkley Brown lure with big eyes he had used the day before. This is also the bait he caught the big Flounder on.

After catching my founder, I hooked into another big Red with this small spinner bait. As it was pulling drag, it got off. Knowing this was a small spinner bait, I was thinking it might have broken the bait but instead I found the hook had been straighted.

The final count for the day was 6 flounder, 3 reds, 2 trout, a drum and a croker. I did not really feel like we had a good day for all the effort we put it.......but it was a fun day and many fishing spots and stories were shared with a new fishing partner.

We may make a trip next week to the I-210 area of the Calcasieu river, so Ray can learn more about how to fish this area. Watch out fellows.....If Ray starts catching fish in this area......it is less than 10 minutes from his house.

nice flats fellas.