[Gerald]

Ray and I made a late afternoon trip to fish the Calcasieu river here in town. There was a good falling tide the first couple of hours, but it almost stopped by 6 PM. The water was stained but clear......1.5 foot visability.

The short story is that we had fun....clean-up was very easy....No fish in the ice chest.

We both caught a fish or two, but nothing to keep. We fished several spots using live shad, finger mullet and soft plastic. I hooked 2 good fish but one got off and my line broke at the hook on another. Ray also had a couple of hook ups....but they got off.

Along one bank we saw fish chasing bait fish in shallow water. We move down there and finally spotted a big flounder jump out of the water. There must have been a bunch of flounder.......as one would chase bait every few minutes in a different spot. We threw everything, except topwater and could not get them to bite.

We talked to a guy at the landing that said he had done well catching Specks this morning while the tide was falling hard. This evening he had not done very good.