LLM Back on Track!

Its been nearly two months since I last posted on my blog. Since then we've traveled to Europe and had a fantastic tour. I never thought I would want to go to Europe, but it was well worth the money. Turkey was our favorite. The people, food, and sights were great.
Now fishing. The key is bait! If you can find the bait you can find fish. The patterns have been totally different from years past. In the past if you found fish in a particular area one day, they were usually there for a period of time. Our experience so far in June has been that if the bait is there, then the fish are near. But one morning there may be tons of bait on a bar and then the next morning...nada!
I've been finding that the topwater bite has been early and then the fish are going deep. The temperatures down here have been extreme for June. Fishing plastics slow with dropping action seems to work best. I've been wading deep flats...chest deep and finding good fish in the deeper drop offs.
We've had exceptionally high tides in June and a number of our usual wading areas are much deeper. If I go with the short boys they have trouble getting into some of the areas I fish.
I am usually not a live bait person, but one of the local guides, we'll call him TC, fishes a lot of croaker and does real well on big trout. I've started securing pinfish and have found them to work fairly well in the deep holes around the causeway. I need to start fishing the potholes in the flats with the pinfish, but something always draws me back to my topwater when I'm in shallow water!
Tomorrow is the 4th of July and I hope it finds you at your favorite fishing spot for a little while before the fireworks. Remember to go and worship on Sunday.

Take care!