Empire on Sunday
 

Bought some baits today and was just wondering what everyone thought I should try. I got some DOA shrimp, sand eel jr's, some top water baits, and some bayou chubs. Any ideas on what to use and did I not get something I should have?:confused:

Never fished there before,but you can't go wrong with any of those baits. Maybe some gulp swimming mullet for flounder and reds,maybe some gold spoons.If your mainly going after trout,any of those baits you bought will work fine.For the DOA try rigging it about 2' under a rattle cork.

Actually, I did get some gold spoons. I forgot to mention those. What does the cork do and do you have any idea why it works so well?

Suspends the bait,sometimes trout will suspend instead of being on the top or on the bottom. When im having a hard time catching, sometimes the cork is what they want. If you get the rattle corks it makes a clicking sound that sounds alot like a scared shrimp. I normally use a sparkle beatle under a cork,but the DOA will work fine....there just so expensive for what you get. You can pick up a 10 pack of beatles for about 2.50

thanks a bunch for the info. hopefully i will have some pics to post after the trip:D

No problem man,any other questions let me know.

can;t be more right... i caught alot of trout with the "cocahoe minnow" in all black with chart. tail and all glow with chart. tail.... caught about 600+ in 5 days... alotta small one's and alot of white trout (which we used for bait) for dem BIG NASTIES.... poppin cork does immitate (SP?) a wounded or scared swimp..... they go crazy over them... Good luck and post a good report and awesome pics when you get back..

everytime i fished empire with one of my buddies who likes to fish down there, we limited on trout on black cocahoe minnow with chartreuse tail on 1/4 or 3/8 oz jighead. just takes me 5 hours to get there from lafayette, so i only go like once or twice a year.

true that !!!!

Thanks for all the good information. I will definitely post a good report lets just hope the pics will be needed

QUOTE=Jordan;34556]Well guys and gals, if there was one word I can use to sum up this past long weekend rodeo (wed-sun) it would be awesome. I got to meet a good buddy of mine, Capt Matt Caire. Real down to earth guy. Had a blast fishing with family and friends. Caught roughly 500 trout and 30+/- reds over 30 lbs and about the same with black drum. Got knocked off the board at the last minute with my redfish. Got beat by .04 lbs.... .04 LBS !!!!!!!!! are you serious ??? I was hot, but cooled down with the awesome drinks at the marina restaurant and all the hot ladies running around... All in all, it was an awesome experience and im fo sho doing it again next year !!!![/QUOTE]

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that is some pretty good detective work. we need you keeping tabs on those in the white house

:*****::*****::*****: naw just playin n keepin everyone on thier toes!! i do it also ill call my wife when i take the boat out of the water and tell her we got 50 specks 10 min later im on the phone bragin to friends who are stuck at work sayin we got 60!! who knows i think its in the fishermans blood to have memory loss at time and memory exagerration other times.

i agree every time i tell a fish story the time it took to catch the fish gets shorter while the fish keep getting taller.:shaking:

i know check out this 7 lb white trout

that is out of the bill dance jimmy houston text books there

While pox was busy taking silly pictures I was in the background rippin' lips... I swear... Alright we only caught white trout... and they were really small :(

:*****::*****::*****::*****::*****: cleaning 138 white trout sux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i gotchya...
 

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calling me a liar i see... go to the flares out of bay adams, fish with glow/chart tail cocahoe minnow from 10 til 6 the next morning, for 4 nights straight... see if u get the same numbers... i have no reason to lie..

B/S
 

I call B/S on that one..