Monday I waded the "Hump" in Port O'Connor with Mike Curley and crew. You could read a news paper on the bottom so we threw salt & pepper Bass Assassins to dupe 29 speckled trout. I took Ned Johnson and Barry back the next day where things slowed to only 8 on the first wade. We moved next to the shoreline on some grassbeds that were loaded with bait to finish up our 20 trout for the day. I took Earl Calkins and his crew back west Thursday where the wind picked back up early. Grinding several different spots on the shoreline produced 9 trout for the day. Keith Sellers was down from Louisianna on Friday for a fishing and gigging trip. Oyster Lake had some big redfish to 27" over scattered shell early. We boxed two limits of reds, a trout, a flounder and 7 big drum. Live shrimp was the bait of choice under the "Inticer" popping cork. Midcoast finally came up with an inline cork I've been trying to get them to make since they started making corks. This new cork has a unique sound that catches fish. Try one. You can get them from Russell's Bait Camp. Friday nights flounder trip produced 40 flatties in 2 hours of gigging in east bay. The gigging action was hot and heavy. Higher tides pushed some nice flatties up to 4 pounds on the shoreline.
Captain Mark Talasek