Prien Lake Thanksgiving Day

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With the family doing dinner on Friday I was able to fish all day Thanksgiving. This was my first day of fishing in my new boat and it ended up being my best day ever!

I ended up with 5 specs and 2 reds, using glow/chart sand eel jr's for most, one red on a purple/chart spinnerbait, one spec on a sand eel/spinnerbait as I was talking on the phone with the rod in the holder just trolling along It seemed like the fish and birds all took a break around 1:30PM. (which I think goes along with what the tide chart called for)

I caught all of my fish in Prien Lake south of the 210 bridge. Chased birds for the most part. I bumped the sand eels off the bottom and worked slowly for most of them. It was a very delicate strike, on a couple I wasnt even sure if I had a fish until I had reeled in 10 yards of line.

This was a really exciting day for me, since I never caught more than 4 fish in one day (and that was on live cocahoes ubder a cork), and I had never caught anything on artificials other than spinnerbaits. I started out with the spinner and caught a nice red, then when I started going to the birds I decided to try the sand eels/jighead and now I am hooked!

My dad came out and met me at the dock around 2PM so that was awesome too, even though neither of us caught anything when we were together. This was the first time we have been fishing together since I was about 12 and we went to the jetties in Cameron. I think we will be doing it more often now!