11/15/15 PAC - very tough day

[keakar]

sorry, no pictures, camera sleeping with fishes which is explained below lol.

took 3 friends out fishing sunday in point au chien and the wind was making things very tough. we decided not to run up to the mine because of the wind plus I didn't want to make a long run in the main canal in choppy water with an overloaded boat (4 people in a 17ft flatboat) so we stayed south and fished around catfish lake/lake billiot area and surrounding marshes.

after a few hours without a single trout bite we switch to market shrimp and hit the marsh for reds.

the current was very strong (too strong for the fish to want to fight against I believe) and we failed to catch anything in moving water behind points marsh openings and eddies so we switched up and went inside the marsh to find water that wasn't moving and get out of the wind that was blowing and there we found some limited success.

they were fresh water fishermen so they were happy just to catch a fish that pulled harder then a bass and so by their impressions they thought we had a great day even though we had a bad day.

so for all four of us added up, we ended the day fishing 8 straight hours to come home with 8 reds (one 20" and the rest 18") and two specks around 14" plus a couple on puppy drum and three or four little 14" rat reds we threw back and thankfully only caught 4 small hard heads which was a relief, especially when fishing with dead shrimp on the bottom.

as we were getting ready to leave the guy decides to take a picture of the lades with the fish and his girl friend holding up her 20" red. well he is standing on very bow (for the best picture angle) when the big red was still lively and jumped out of her hand and nearly went in the water so she screamed and jumped back (she is scared of holding fish) ends up stepping on a fishing pole and tackle box breaking breaking both and dumping the tackle box everywhere. as this was happening, the flat boat rocks hard and picture boy goes right into the cold water and comes back out so fast I don't know how he even got wet but without his sunglasses or the camera lol. falling into cold water on a cold day makes you move pretty fast and the ending was kinda par for he course of how the whole day went but it gave us all something to laugh about on the way home.