6-9-11 morning on Big Lake

[Gerald]

After reading the report last night about muddy water at Holly Beach Wednesday afternoon, I checked the wind readings and it was steady from the south and about 10 mph. I figured the Beach water would stay muddy until the winds changes so changed my plans to go wading on the beach.

I was at Hebert’s landing before daylight and headed south. Ran into some birds feeding along the east bank and caught one small trout on glow/char sand ell and switched to top water [bone color spook].

I got several blowups but no takers before the birds and fish left the area. I stayed a while, thinking the action would pick back up without success. Water along the east bank is fairly clear…. With a green color and the wind was about 5 -7 mph from the east. It amazed me how many other boats were out on a Thursday morning. Some areas were crowed with boats.

I found a couple more flocks of birds feeding farther south and the water remained about the same. I caught several small trout and had a couple of big blowups.

I fished some reefs along the south bank, but only caught a couple of keepers and a few barely 12 inchers…..which I released to grow some more. A couple of hours after daylight, the birds were gone. The water was somewhat clearer [~6”+ visibility] along the south bank than it was last week when I could only see 3” or 4” down in the water.

After not getting any hits on Top water and have problems with the trolling motor cutting off and then starting again, I went to see if I could catch some shrimp in the marsh. I caught just a few shrimp and other bait fish, so I headed back to fish along the east bank with live bait. I caught a couple nice specks and a redfish along the bank. By mid morning the winds had changed to blowing from the south at ~ 8-10 mph. by 10 AM and about half of the boats had left the east bank area.

I finished the day with 7 specks and 1 red in the ice chest.