Newbie lookin' for a little help

[Gerald]

I use to fish Sabine whenever Big Lake water would get messed up with too much rain.

I would come down the Sabine river to get there. I did fairly good fishing the area between the north shore and the oil platforms.

One time I went, there were some people that were fishing from the bank of that small island where the river connects to the lake. They were fishing on the north [point] shore and casting to the east.....not out into the main river. This was on an incoming tide, using live bait that they were catching there. In talking to them it sounded like they had done well. I saw them catch one nice trout, just as the tide was about to stop moving.

I caught some trout out in the lake under the birds and just making a drift. I learned that I needed a bigger trolling motor to keep up with the moving birds. I never did learn where any reef were located. I fished the northeast part of the lake some......without success. Never did go south....I would have needed to bring extra gas to go that far.