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Past Fishing Reports OCTOBER 2004 - MARCH 2005MARCH 2005 FEBRUARY 2005 JANUARY 2005 DECEMBER 2004 December 3, 2004- My guests today were a "reel" treat to fish with. Aboard were my good friend Charlie Noble, a New Orleans native, but presently hailing from Las Vegas, NV, along with his buddies Tom and Wayne hailing from St. Louis, MO. Charlie, a lifelong friend of mine are fishing buddies going way back. He had called me and said he would be in New Orleans for business and meeting him there were Tom and Wayne. They wanted to get in some fishing time during their stay, and I was able to get them out. What a great time we had. We reminiced about old times as we all had worked in the same business years back and all of us seemed to know and share the old funny stories. Charlie Wayne and Tom were all excellent anglers. We covered a few areas fishing tight-lined assassins picking up some real pretty specks at almost all areas we visited. From 7:00 to about 10:00 we boxed about 40 specks mostly 13-16", while throwing back only a few that did not reach the 13" mark. We were in some real nice fish in our first area, but as the sun rose in the sky, our drift patterns were producing less fish. We came across a spot were a couple of weeks ago my charters were obtaining limits of beautiful specks before 9:00 a.m. and all on plastics. As a matter of fact I haven't had a live bait on my boat since October. This spot turned out to be the ticket to a 4 man limit (100) as Charlie Tom and Wayne absolutely slayed these specks one after another finding the fish in 12' of water dead on the bottom. Our catch nearly topped off a 120 qt. cooler with no ice. The "baits-du-jour" were the albino shad curly tail and the seashad in electric blue, rigged on 1/4 oz. jigs. I am sorry that I did not have the camera with me to take some images of this trip, but the guys are gearing up for a return trip to fish with me in January. I will be certain to have some images taken for them on that trip.
NOVEMBER 2004
November 12,13, 2004 These 2 days of fishing would be in real tough conditions as a strong front would come through s/e/ Louisiana. My guests for these 2 days were John Lowery, Dave, and Jeremy Jungling of Jackson, Mississippi. The first day would be real tough as we expected. Barometric presssure on the rise and winds howling out of the n/w at 15-20 and gusting up to 25. We had to fish real protected areas and did not have the luxury of getting on the open areas where I have been having great results during the extraordinarily warm October and early November our area has enjoyed. We would make a number of stops without very much sucssess, but as the barometric pressure would stabilize at mid-morning, the specks would slowly start to feed. The major majority of our fish were taken in 2 very protected areas, that were near a deep body of fast moving water, and our really pretty specks in the 14-16" class were seeking a bit of protection themselves and would find our offerings of live shrimp rigged 3' under floats just too irresistable. I thought we were going to have a slam fest there for a while as our floats would dissappear almost as soon as they hit the water. Some of these specks would reach the 18-19" mark and the guys really enjoyed the action we finally had. We headed to the dock with 31 speckled trout, and other mixed fish were taken as well. Rat reds, sheepshead, and blackdrum. The following day would be a whole other story. Within a 300 yd area of a deep protected bayou, we would come across the motherload of hungry specks readily taking our tightlined presentations of bass assassins rigged on 1/4 oz. jigheads, and I would rest my rod and assist in John, Dave, and Jeremys' absolute "assassination" of some gorgeous speckled trout. Even after releasing a good bit of 12-13" fish, they would achive their limit and mine, totaling 100 specks 13-16" before 9:00 a.m. The specks were really stacked up and frenzied in this protected area not too far from where we ended up yesterday. We could easily have taken a 6 man limit in this spot. The guys caught and released specks for another hour or so and then we headed to the barn. The guys showered up at the camp and were on there way back to Jackson at 11:00 with over 40# of sweet eatin' speckled trout filets. What a diference a day makes OCTOBER 2004
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