4th trip to big lake_11/1/09
 

Well my dad, uncle randy, and I went out the lake yesterday as some of ya'll already know and had a good time. We got there at about 6:20 I guess and went to Turners first. We attempted to work the birds, but they are much different from V. Bay birds, which are 10 times easier to get underneath. These birds just wouldn't work good for us, but they pointed us in the right direction and we caught about 25 in the morning. Then headed down to find some prettier water, which we found around long point where we caught a few more nothing fast. We decided to go exploring and we stopped at a few spots that we had caught at during the summer time, but we didn't catch anything. We thought we'd give it our shot at the weirs to catch some reds and to get our confidence back up. On the way there we saw some bait activity and stopped in the middle of the lake and picked up some more trout. Finally arrived at the weir and had a BLAST limiting out on some really really nice redfish. After that we wanted to see if we could finish our trout limit, so we went back to long point and the birds were flying and it was super calm so we could see the shrimp and baitfish and thats where we ended our limit even caught a few extra for fun and caught some more redfish in the mix too. All in all a good day. I have some pictures coming later that i have to get from my mom, since my camera decided to break on the way home. Even got to see Tim on the way home.

Glad yall had fun

Glad you got on them. Ain't nuttin betta than a good day on the water, specially when the weather is good too.

thanks guys!

i'm going back wednesday too =D lol

You gotts the fever now huh?

Sounds like its was worth the drive,we did ok but headed in early because of hangovers from saturday night. What did yall catch the reds on?

haha showing symptons.

Still have A LOT of learning to do over there. That place is huge. Seems like everyone fishes in the middle of nowhere. Its much different from V. Bay, but its still fun. Sucks it takes a whole tank of gas in the truck to get there and back though lol

haha that sucks. We caught them on lsu sand eels and maybe a few on gulp i forget. I know we threw it a little bit. I caught the most on the lsu sand eels though.

Man we threw gulp at the weirs and could not get a bite. Some other boats were smoking the reds with shrimp.

yeah we tipped ours every now and then. I even caught a small mangrove snapper. First time i ever caught one inshore fishing. What boat were ya'll in again?

You caught a what????? You musta burnt a good bit a gas in the boat too with all that runnin.............here's a pic of the catch of the day Jeremy...........Didn't do as good as you guys, but I'm still smilin bout this one...................

We were in a black and white nautic star with a 90 yammy. Cool pic Tim....is that a hair jig?

Sure is..........here's Her setup.............

haha thats awesome! Too bad she didn't hook into a big red lol ya'll would have to tie her down! I like her set up there; might have to invest in one lol

I didn't realize how deep your boat is! Geez that thing look like it'll take a chop and a half lol How you like it?

Ok thats what i thought. We saw a black nautic star with a 90 Merc on it and I almost asked which one was you, but i thought you had said 90 yamaha so i didn't say anything lol

and yeah i caught a small mangrove snapper lol and we burnt about a quarter tank of gas. Not that bad really

Them opti max's are awesome,they get better gas mileage then most four strokes.

yep i find ours is awesome! We ran pretty much the whole circle inside of big lake and burnt a quarter tank. i thought we'd burn much more than that.

J.......I LOVE My boat!!! Can run wide open in 2's(barely feel em) a little slower in 3's, but get pretty wet!!!! I'd love to see the pic of this snapper!!! Different subject..........when I burn this motor again, I'm getting a 200 Opti.................Nothin better on the water!!

dink i ;ike the new boat.i did not look at my text untill today.i would have loved to go on your boat.lets plan a trip.btw i read in the paper today the limit on red snapper next year will be 1 or a 30 day season