A little breezy this morning as we headed East into the Delacroix marsh. My game plan was to hit spots that are good for incoming tide trout bite. It was a little rougher than I anticipated crossing the lake, so I diverted to a protected bayou with a little less wave energy. We got on fish right away, but the wrong species - catfish, were mauling our offerings of live shrimp carolina rigged. The hunt was on as we took off to find some better action. We hit a couple of other spots to find trout, but they were too small. We headed to a point in a large lake and set up where we could fish the shoreline for reds and work the tidal current on the point for trout. The trout spot yielded more small trout, but the reds were ganged up on the shore line. We caught a pile of nice reds in the 18-25" class on the live shrimp. Still thinking trout, we hit a large lake and set up on a submerged reef. The trout started right away, but had to wade through small ones to get some to hit the ice chest. The larger trout wanted artificial cocahoes on 3/8 ounce jigheads. We picked away at the trout until the Black Drum crashed the party and worked my guest around the boat before we were able to land the fish. We kept at it until we ran out of live shrimp and decided to take it to the house. The trout were tough today, but the reds and drum made sure that my guests went home with plenty of fish. Beautiful weather this week, get out and get you some! Good luck out there
Captain Jeff
