6/25 Dulac surf dink jamboroo!

[Sightwindow]

Hopped aboard a buddy's boat early this morning. Wind was blowing a bit and there were two vessels on the usual first spot, but we set up a drift anyway. Immediately started getting hits, but not many connections. Long story short seven fish on three drifts with two real fish.

Second spot terrible water and no fish. Third spot decent water, no fish and incredible hutzpah of two elderly gentlemen in rushing in to another spot on the big motor and destroying our drift.

Moved on to the barrier islands for some surf fishing. Whiskey Pass was a mess, but held bait on the eastern end with no action except a ladyfish. My buddy tallied two fish in the surf, I got none.

Finally made it to Raccoon Island at noon, just as the tide was falling. To say it was on is an understatement. Water was nice, not calm, but off green. Started with a Space Guppy Riptide soft plastic, which did okay, but something was missing. Switched to black/chart Bayou Chub and that did the trick. Fish were highly mobile chasing shrimp, but enthusiastic in the strikes when the bait got around them. Plenty throwbacks and plenty lost while I tried to find the surf net rhythm, but enough action to bag 17 keepers. Buddy had a little better quality with 14 total, so 40 for the day ending at 1:00. Good times!

[PaulMyers]

Sounds like a fun trip.

Great report, thanks!

[I make oil]

Nice trip and excellent report.

[Sightwindow]

Just couldn't help myself! Got everything cleaned up from thins AM, picked up some gas and knew I'd just end up napping the afternoon away. Sooo, loaded up my boat and took off for a C&R trip! A two-fer Tuesday!

Pulled up to island and everything looked fantastic: rain bait and mullet rafts and clean green water. Tried topwater, but trout would only slap at it. Had a jig rod ready, but wanted to see the flush! Moved down the island to the opposite point and it was on. The fish weren't big, but their attitude was oversized! caught and released a half dozen on top before deciding I wanted to feel the "thump". Even tried a tandem rig and caught a few doubles. Greenheads were chewing on my ankles and driving me nuts, but the action was too good to stop and deal with it.

Bigger fish than the surf this AM, but still in the small category.

With 45 minutes of daylight left, I decided to try another area. Wrong wrong wrong! Bait and good water was there, but nary a strike. Headed in after graphing a point and finding a nice long hard mud bar off of an island.

Good times X2!

[swamp snorkler]

Nice report.

[Ragin_Cajun]

Nice report, we did pretty good over the last weekend at Coon Pt. All artificial and bait was everywhere. MAD bite at daybreak for about 30-45 minutes then had to dink out a limit. Folks next to us were wearing them out on live bait!

RC

[Sightwindow]

I don't know what it is, but this year it seems like the wind has been way up at daybreak and then calms for a while mid morning and mid day. And yesterday at 6:20 PM, it was pretty much flat calm. I'm thinking of seriously reevaluating fishing time strategy. And even the people out and about on a Tue morning! Jeez...