Baffin Bay – Mono-y-Mono

Fishing late May can be awesome.  The weather is still quite cool in the morning and the fishing can be smoking hot.  This was the case today.  I fished by myself on this video shoot---Mono-y Mono--- and headed to Baffin Bay by way of Bird Island.  Tony D, my main cameraman, was on board to catch the rod-bending action on High Definition with one of our Sony cameras. 

The day started out slow, I worked the back side of some barrier islands that had excellent structure but was unable to really get anything going.  I fished with live Croaker and I could not seem to find fish what wanted to feed.  We did have a full moon the night before and that can really make the early morning good but the bite can then taper off throughout the day.

Seemed to be the opposite for me.  I had only one fish for the first 3.5 hours.  Wow, that gets old…no feeding fish.  I decided to move further South and found that the Badlands was the destination for some hot rod-bending action.  I don’t really know if the first area picked up after I left, but the real payoff today was the Rocks of the Badlands.  Moving around and staying tenacious was the trick in finding fish of caliber and…………… in numbers.

Anglers Note:

Fish can feed more easily at night if the moon is full.  They can see their prey better and will be more active.  If you have fish coughing up shrimp as you land them at the boat, they are really full from foraging at night but if you are persistent, they will take your bait too.   Moving around is key, stay positive and keep on the hunt.  It really is a combination of a waiting game and a strategic process to find fish that are feeding and get the rod-bending action you came for.  Today, I alone caught 25 fish, all Speckled Trout. 

Baffin Bay was again………….., On Fire !!!!

As usual……………… Thanks for your time today and……………… I’ll see “You”…. on the water.

Dave

Falcon Lake – Big Bass Assault

Robert Amaya and I fished Falcon Lake in South Texas.  This amazing lake is located in Zapata, Texas and it is the boarder between Texas and Mexico and it has structure like no other place on the planet.  In fact, people come her from all across the Untied States to set their sights on these amazing Sow Bass. 

We shot the show in HD and Andy Hickman of FN Daily News was on board with us.   If you haven’t been to his awesome site that covers fishing reports all across the U.S. you need to visit them today at www.fishnetdailynews.com.

The weather was pleasant but the 3 days of BlueBird skies make us fish with high pressure which can slow down the bite.  None-the-less, we covered water and smoked some awesome fish.  I am talking 13 bass of caliber and even one Channel Catfish.  The rod bending action was rock solid. 

 Our biggest fish was an 8.2 lb fat pre-spawn Sow Bass with a fat stomach.  We had rod bending action from the get go and Robert coached me all along the way to put me in the strike zone and slow me down when I would move the plastic too quickly.

                                                                     Anglers note:

The real trick in this type of bass fishing was to really know how these fish feed.  They inhale their bait and do NOT swim off with it.  If they feel you pull on the bait at all, they will spit the bait and you may not even know that you had a bite.

Robert showed me the alley ways to cast to and how to stay in contact with the bait and move it slowly a couple of feet and then let it sit and wait for the tap that represents the fish inhaling the bait.

 We used 5 inch plastic baits tipped with sent and color.  We rigged Carolina style and moved the bait up and over structure and let the plastic draw in the strikes.

Special thanks to Robert Amaya for an awesome fishing trip.  He said that the best Bass fishing is from May to July.   It will be hot summer weather but it will also be Smoking Rod Bending Action,…………… you can count on that.

Contact Robert at 956-765-1442 or visit him on the web at www.RobertsFishntackle.com and he can put you on some amazing fish too. 

Thanks for your time today and…………….I’ll see you…..….,in the outdoors. 

Dave

Spring Time – Port A Fishing

Spring time fishing is really my favorite time of the year to fish.  The weather is cool in the mornings and it warms up to the mid 80’s as highs for the day.  Another thing that turns on the fishing is the presence of bait fish for our game fish.  Mother Nature, as she always does, brings in a shrimp migration and Mullet run just in time.  The game fish are really hungry, they are coming out of the Winter cold weather with very little baitfish in the water for them to forage on.  They are hungry and ready for a change. 

 Tony D, my main cameraman and I targeted some of the protected water where fishermen rarely fish.  Without exception, every place I fished required casting into the wind.  Most anglers never cast into the wind, especially with a bait caster.  The reason I choose to do this is because these waters are rarely fished by local anglers.  They always anchor their boats or drift an area and cast in a NW direction since the wind is predominately out of the SE. I threw a throw net and caught my large Pony Mullet and I had live shrimp on board.  I used the mullet and maid cut bait and positioned that bait in sandy zones while I worked my spinning rod with the live shrimp and fished tight to structure.

All in all, I caught 12 nice Redfish and 3 Black Drum.  It was a smoking fishing day in Port Aransas Texas.   We make a really great fishing show in HD with our new Sony Z7U cameras.  Watch for it on your television later this year.

 Anglers Note:

The key to today’s success was targeting strike zones and covering water.  I moved to probable 15 anchoring points to fish.  The moves kept me close to structure and I did not stay there long if the perch were stealing my bait quickly and I was not catching Reds or Drum.  My moves were about 50 feet sometimes.  I was looking for strike zones.  These are transitions in bottom type.  As an example of what I call strike zones, the change from a grassy zone to a sandy zone or a grassy zone to a drop off into deeper water.

These changes in bottom type will hold bait fish and the game fish will forage these areas in search of food.  Work the transitions and you will catch more fish.

I used 30 lb braded line and I rigged Carolina Style with a 30 lb mono leader, an egg weight up the line and a swivel to hold the egg wait away from the size 5 Mustad Croaker style hook. 

Thanks for your time today and I’ll see you,……………. Outdoors !! 

Dave