Big Lake Report 6/18/17

[T-Speck]

Myself, my 6 year old son and 12 year old daughter picked up a pack of frozen shrimp, launched at Spicers and headed south. We started fishing the southwest portion of Big Lake. The water was pretty choppy and the wind was steady picking up. The name of the game Sunday was look for clean water. We were able to jump to a few different places (reefs and chasing birds) and boxed only about a half dozen keeper trout. Tons of schoolie trout could be caught anywhere and everywhere there was clean water. We caught the trout on Matrix Shad TKO shrimp (picture below) about 30" under a popping cork. We came across a boat that had some outboard problems so we towed them from the middle part of Big Lake down to the ferry landing launch. After they were safely at the dock we went back to Big Lake and fished for reds against the grass on the eastern side of the lake. All reds were caught on the same Matrix Shad TKO shrimp tipped with dead shrimp. We boxed a few reds then decided to call it day because it was getting HOT. I forgot to take pictures of the fish on this trip before I cleaned them. Most of this trip I was working with my son trying to get him to where he can fish independently. He was able to put his own market bait on his hook threading it to where it wouldn't come off when he casted, cast, work the bite, set the hook, reel it in, and get his first fish all by himself in the boat. It was just a little croaker, but he did it all by himself. My daughter has been independently fishing for a while so she was doing her own thing most of the trip. When we got home my daughter cleaned the boat for me for fathers day. It was great time with the kids.