Not From The Lake.... But

My daddy, Sonny, and I went out with another Sonny in the La. marsh this past Monday. We left out of Bay St. Louis with Shore Thing Charters. While we didn't catch much table fare, we did catch the two pictured below. We also caught a bunch of stingrays, hard heads and croakers.

But hey, at least we caught something.


My Bull Red (wearing my Lake Cavalier Fishing Assc. Cap, although you may not can see it)


Daddy's Black Drum

Lunker Pics

Here are a couple of Lunkers caught last week at the Lake.

Coach Mack Robinson with his 7 pounder caught on a series 5 crankbait


Jimmy Pickle with his 8.2 pounder caught on a football head jig

A Belated Fishing Report

I was lucky enough to be able to get down to the Lake last weekend and spend a few days. However, between the kids and entertaining family and friends, I wasn't able to go fishing.

Except for a few minutes one morning. Those few minutes produced a 15 pounder.

Let me explain.

My little boy wanted to go "pishing" so I took him down to the pier with a little ultra lite rod with a Zebco 11 ultra lite reel rigged up with 4 pound line to try and catch a bream or two for him to reel in. On the second cast I thought I got hung up on something. The "something" then took off and started burning up the drag. My little girl came up about that time and asked what it was. I told her it was a fish, a big fish, and that I doubted I would ever get it reeled in.

Now, I've caught tuna and amberjacks before and this was the same kinda fight in duration.

Amazingly the line, knot and lure held. 30 minutes later , we netted him. A 15 pound grass crap that hit a Road Runner lure and some how got himself foul hooked.

After that ordeal we had had enough "pishing".

Allen Kaye and George Bryant with the "Big Pish"


Jimmy Pickle went out Tuesday with a retired high school coach from here. They had a slow morning, although Coach caught a 7 pounder ( I'm trying to get a pic of it up on here) on one of his first few casts.

Jimmy's pattern of late was not working well that morning, so that afternoon they started changing up regularly until they had caught 27 by the end of the day. Jimmy reported that that were scattered more than they have been, although late that afternoon they did find a school off of a point. The one thing in common, no matter the bait, was work it slow.

The daylight bite was decent this past weekend using buzzbaits on the edges, according to my brother-in-law. He caught 6 one morning and 9 the next. He was back at the house by 9 am though. Once the sun is above the trees, you are gonna have to work to find them.

Got a report that the crappie are biting, if you are lucky enough to find them.

Jimmy was going to go back out today, so I'll get another report sometime tonight or tomorrow morning.