Calcasieu Pass 6/14

[MathGeek]

Hit the pass around 2:00 PM, clouds threatened, but T-storms kept their distance. Water looked like chocolate milk and tide was not moving at all when we got there. We anchored about 100 yards north of the end of the west jetty on the outside, and began letting down crab, shrimp, and finger mullet. We weren't there ten minutes when the fight began with the first bull drum.

There was a steady stream of really big gafftops with two more big drum until 5:00 PM when we called it a day. The sun had come out and the water looked a bit clearer. The tide was moving pretty fast when we got back into the channel. The new shimano reels with 30 lb power pro did a great job bringing in the bulls and the 10 or so 5 + lb gafftops: plenty of power, smooth drags, and great castability also. All the drum and most of the gafftops were caught on fresh crab, bought at JTs in LC, kept alive until use, popped the top shell off and broken in half before loading up on a Mustad 6/0 live bait hook. I love these hooks, much higher percentage of hook ups than the 6/0 offset eagle claws we had been using.