Beautiful day on Big Lake
 

With the high winds as the front came through Wed/Thur. I was not sure how the fishing would be on Friday. Last night's comment by Biglaketiger [thanks] about the wind being calm at 10 PM gave me hope that the water would be "OK".

The weather report called for fog in the AM, so I did not set the alarm. When I got to Hebers landing at 10 AM.......the winds were very light and the parking lot was 1/2 full.

Once I got out on the Lake, the water looked fairly good. There was 6" to 10" visiablity and the water only had a dirty "stained" look to it.

As I headed south [my plan for the day was to also catch crabs in the marsh.] the water got a little better. About half way down the Lake, I spotted a few seagulls sitting on the water and I could not resist giving them a try.

As I eased closer, I started throwing a soft plastic bait. As I got closer, I spot fish chasing shrimp and got a hook up. Seeing the feeding action, I put that rod down and started throwing topwater. About 1.5 hours later I had 12 nice Specks and 6 or 8 under size or close to 12 inchers that got released.

When "action" finally stopped [some of the time, the birds all left] I headed to the marsh. There were several boats at the "fence" castnetting. I stopped to give it a try but after a couple throws and talking with the other people......shrimping was very slow. But there were flounder being caught by people there.

The flounder were being caught with live shrimp and I only had some frozen shrimp. My shrimp did catch some fish. A small flounder, rat red, hardhead catfish, oyster fish. So after 45 minutes, and watching other people catch 6 or 8 nice flounder.....I had not put anything else in the boat.

That finally changed, and I ended up catching 3 flounder and a 18" Red. Another boat returned [been gone ~ 1.5 hours] and said they had just caught some nice Specks in Lamberts Lake.

I stopped at the Weir [inside].....yes, I sometimes fish there. The fish there really liked my frozen shrimp. I got bites on almost every cast. I have never caught so many [7 or 8] 8 to 20 lb black drum. I did catch 3 big Reds [22" to 25"] and lost another when it broke my line under the boat.

Being a couple Specks short of a limit.....I went back out into the Lake to see if I could find a few more. About the same general area as earlier, I found some seagulls on the water an a couple flying around. The same pink Skittlewalker did its thing and caught several more specks to completed a Beatiful Day on Big Lake.

I never did get to my "Plan" for the day. That will have to be next trip before the 9 th.

Great report, thank you....

Nice report and nice trip. Cool pic of that trout too! You did much better than us yesterday. We fished north and only had 6 keeper trout and 2 flounder.

Awesome day. Nice report.

I like the box shots but those pics in the water are awesome! Nice report!


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Awesome report!


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Sounds like an awesome day for the books


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Great report Gerald!

Great report sir. I thought that was you but wasn't sure. You should have waved. I did catch some shrimp yesterday. Not a ton but decent.

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Great Report and PICS

Nice!!

Mr. Gerald, it don't matter if you catch or not...your reports are great entertainment. Glad you got 'em, tho.

About 2:45 PM ??? Same here....was not sure if it was you either.

Shrimping.....what I saw was they were catching about 2 to 5 per throw and they looked medium [40 to 50 count] in size. I got 20 bags in the freezer, so I was not going to work at catching a few more.

Out in the lake....the shrimp that were "skipping" across the water were fairly small. Maybe 1.5" long.

Great Pics of the Spec's. That water looks darn good to me.