Big Lake 6/5/16

[jpd0144]

Took a friend to BL this afternoon that has only inshore fished a couple of times.
We headed south try and find some decent water to make some drifts. It was pretty tough for us. Picked up 2 keepers out of maybe 5 or so fish. Decided to head to the east side of the lake. As soon as we broke out the ship channel to head into the lake we ran into 3 different groups of birds. We started chunking and winding as quick as possible to boat as many as we could to try and weed through them in hopes of some keepers. Jumped to a different group to try and see if that group held better fish and nada ! Small groups of birds would bust up and reform here and there and kept us busy for most of the evening. No luck on upgrading size. A bunch of 10" - line burner 11 7/8" fish. My buddy had a blast as he never fished birds before. So I stuck with it till he had his fill. We ended up with 6 more keepers giving us a total of 8 pickles and a small flounder. We boated a estimate of 50 or so fish all on Little Johns. Not a great box of fish but a great time !