11/1/09 Lake P

[YellaBlazer]

Today turned out to be a better day than I expected.

I woke up at 5 this morning to winds blowing hard out of the north. I thought for sure I was going to get blown out. I decided to go anyway and stick it out as long as I could. Got to Bonnabel at 6 and sure enough, it's pretty choppy. I rode out to the 8 mile hump of the Causeway and started working the bridge legs. I only managed to catch 2 trout at the turn around. I picked up and pounded my way to the northshore for calmer and cleaner water.

At the 16 mile hump, the water was much cleaner. It was a little after 8 then and the wind decides to quit blowing. Can't ask for better! I was able to work the legs really good and get on a good bite. The bigger trout were hungry this morning... and so were the puppy drum! I must have caught and released 25-30 drum in between the specks. I've never caught black drum like that on the Causeway. When the water quit moving, the trout bite died. All the fish today were caught with either Blue Moon or Copperhead Dudleys on 1/2 oz jigheads.

Finished off the day with 13 nice trout. My cheap, knock-off boga had the biggest one right at 4 lbs.

Just to give you and idea of the size of the fish, the dink trout in the middle of the first pic is 14".