SaltyCajun.com - Too wet? Go fishing!

With all the rain we have had in the last 4-5 days we had another 4 1/2 inches yesterday and this morning.

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Waited till almost 1:00 in the afternoon for tail of the front to pass and headed out. Was too wet to paint the outside of the house. I would have to wear boots due to all the pools of water around. Nothing soaking in. I may not be able to mow the lawn for a few more days (IF it does not rain again).

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Every where I went the water was too dirty for anything. This racoon was most likely flooded out of it's resting area. After covering several miles of the Empire area for over 2 hours with nothing but dirty water and a lady fish I found a place with some almost clean water. Problem was I could not get to it. It had some good redfish there and if I had been in a tournament I would have gone up to the bank and horsed them over the edge to the boat. This is the kind of place only a go devil or air boat can get to. The center is deep.

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I played this area ducking into tight, narrow pipelines and found a trout or two. Had to put the boat right in the weeds to be able to fish the canal. It paid off.

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Being in this area has som additional meat getting on the boat. When they bite the blood flows from your body. My boat has a fly swater and 2 cans fo spray on board. They get thick. The worst I had was last year 4 dozen killed in 1/2 hour My boat was covered with them. The picture is blurred but the green heads or horse flies are almost as thick as the mosquitos.

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Moved into some other tight areas and picked away at the fish.

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I found some rat reds and even got a nice 16 inch flounder with the trout.

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On the way in I saw some movement back into a very narrow ditch.

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I eased in about as far as I could. I casted as far back in the direction I saw movement. With the first cast I disturbed every other fish back there. As I was fighting this fish I sadly watched all the others run out right past my boat. Looked like they were having a convention back there. One heck or a sight. A lot of nice fish went past. At least this one made my Empire trifecta for the box.

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I saw some birds working in bay adams outside the flood gates and casted only to find a sail catfish. I decided to bring it home for Buddy and Sushi. Those are my 2 16 pound cats.

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Ended the afternoon hunt with 12 trout 13 and up, a 16 inch flounder and a nice redfish. Once the bite started and I found the clean water things were not that bad.

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