Another Great Morning on the LLM

 Today was not supposed to be a good day. The winds were forecast to be breezy, the bite was forecast to be strong before daylight, and the water was off color yesterday. But it was all wrong. The winds were very light, the water was trout green, and the tides were pouring in. And to top it off, the trout bite was on. 

I fished this am with two excellent fishermen, Lee Young, a neighbor across the channel, and my brother-in-law, David Wood. David is a retired LLM guide and one of the very best topwater lure fishermen I know. He's one of those guys who will cast his Spook until his arm falls off and then make a few more casts. Lee is also an individual who continues to excite me about fishing. He is an offshore guy and a diver, but spends a LOT of time fishing the shallow water of the LLM.

This morning, we left the fingers at 6 and headed to our continued hotspot near marker 58. We were alone, which was a surprise. I started the morning throwing a white Spook junior and had a few blowups but no connects. I also changed my position on the bar a chose to wade away from my comrades. I put on my old favorite plastic, a Hogie 5" Super Minnow in my favorite color, Halloween orange. On my first cast, I was greeted by a hard strike and secured a solid 22+, which I released. What followed was kinda unreal,  I would guess that I caught probably 30 trout in the next 45 minutes. I put three in my basket, all of which I measured at 20 inches. The bite kinda turned off around 7:30, but I continued to throw my Hogie and continued to catch and release good solid trout. My retrieve varied from allowing my bait to sink and retrieve to simply reeling it in at different speeds. It all paid off. By the time we were ready to go I lost count of my numbers. As Lee approached me, I made a long cast back toward the bar and almost immediately had a solid hookup. This one stripped line, and when I finally netted it, I was greeted by a solid 25-inch, 5-pounder. I guessed the weight. It was time to go, so we headed back to the boat, and I kept that fish in my dipnet so that we could take pictures and release her. 

It was a GREAT MORNING on the LLM. God is Good!