Summer's Not Here...YET!

The winds are still blowing..some days hard. The early morning bite has been good, when you can find decent water. With the combination of still getting north winds and then usually by the next day, back out of the south, its been difficult to find the clear trout water. We have a couple of wade bars that have been producing some good numbers of fat, good size fish. These are well known by locals and guides, and if you are not in the water at daybreak, you'll get covered up.
My good friend, David Wood, told me a story about how people have almost zero respect for others. He and another friend were wading one of these bars on one end. A number of other waders had occupied the other end. As they were wading a boat pulled up on the bar within 30 yards of David. There were a total of seven people in the boat. A couple of the men jumped out with steel rod holders and began putting down stakes along the bar. They secured a total of ten rod holders and then began to place rigs in each holder. They were baited with cut bait and were thrown out into the area that David and the others were wading.  It totally cut them off. Apparently they could not speak a word of English, as they were asked if they did not see these guys wading. They played dumb. Where are the game wardens when you need them.
As I mentioned above we have been taking limits of fish almost on every outing. A good number have been taken on topwaters, but the majority have given into plastics and gulp. I've been using the Hogie Major Minnow in Morning Glory/ Chartreuse and Black/Chartreuse. Also the Gulp Ripple Mullet in all colors have produced. I am finding that fishing the Hogies on a slow steady retrieve has been working, whereas the Gulps are being fished a little slower with a drop action. The fish are usually on as I pick up the rod tip and start my retrieve.
Come on down...summer is right at out doorstep or maybe it never left.
Good fishing!