Another Great Day!

They say that a day fishing is always better than a day at work. Even when you are retired a day fishing is better than staying home and doing "honey dos".
Yesterday opened with a fantastic sunrise and then proceeded to be a fantastic day on the water.

I was joined by a friend from Laguna Vista, Dale K. We headed North at around 6:30. Water conditions were almost perfect, light winds from the NW. Water was perfect for topwater action.
We ventured to  a small bar known by many as the Hump. I have it marked on my GPS as Glenn's Bar. The tides have been exceptionally high and there was probably another foot of water on the bar.
We started at the East end that seems to drop off into some deeper holes quicker.
For some reason there was very little topwater action and so we switched to plastics and were into fish almost immediately. For the next hour we caught trout on almost every cast. Trouble was for every twenty landed, one would be legal. I left Dale and decided to hit the West end. This area had paid off for us in the "Fishing for Hope" tournament.
I changed back to my favorite topwater and connected with a nice 22" on about the third cast. I was soon joined by Dale, who had also grown tired of catching the small schoolies. Together we were able to put together a limit of nice trout.
At around 10, we decided to look for some redfish and ran to the flats just North of Bird Island. There was nothing there and I decided to make a drift in Airport Cove before heading in. Dale connected with an undersized flounder. I changed from my topwater and put on an Excite Bite 6 " bait. I quickly connected with a good keeper flounder, followed by a nice 19" trout which we released.
We headed to PI. I marked this one down as another one of those great days in paradise!

How to get more readers?

I really like to write, take pics and video, and share, but I'm never sure who's reading. I've had this blog for a number of years and as of today only have twelve followers. Now I do this partly for my own satisfaction, but also hopefully bring others to love the LLM and what happens down here.
I've tried a number of things to try to attract more subscribers, but the numbers seem to stay the same. Is there a way to actually know who is reading my blog? Oh well...on to other things...like fishing.

This week I spent two days in the salt and we managed to bring home limits both days. Wednesday we headed North. We fished the 58 area and managed to catch a few fair trout. Most were taken on plastics and Gulp. There was lots of floating and suspended grass. It was hard to work topwaters and at times working a sinking plastics was a problem. Water conditions were good. The waters around 58 always seem to be fairly clear. There is always lots of tidal movement around the various bars and points. I like to fish some really deep sand holes that always seem to hold trout. These are as my son would say..."nipple deep" wade spots. There are usually lots of trout around these holes, but not always keepers.
I found another fairly good plastic that I really like that has great action. It's a five inch soft plastic known as a Suicide Shad made by Big Bites. Its a little tougher than the Yum Momey Minnow and much less expensive. Problem has been finding them. I managed to locate them at an academy in Houston. Even had difficulty finding them online!