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UPPER BAY TROUT

Well the weather has finally turned in our direction. I got out today and did a little kayaking. Man it is really nice out right now with the sun shining down on us and warming the flats. The fish are starting to thaw and bite again. We need about 2 weeks of this stoff and the fish will be in a full blown spring pattern. i threw brown lures all morning and had a few hits on the amber paddle tail but no commitments, so i switched to the cajun pepper and they started to play with me. i used the rockport rattler head in them to give it the little bit of noise and it worked i caught numerous fish in the 16 inch range and 6 in the larger size . released all but the 6 and let them swim to play another day. working the lures on the bottom and slow was the ticket today. the bite was soft and you can still tell the fish are cold. come on spring.
RANDALL

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Weather Patterns

It seems that the weather is not working for the weekend fisherman. having a daytime job does detour our fishing chances. The weather was perfect during the work week and i thought about getting the sniffles numerous times and takeing off. Being the dedicated employee that i am i did not do it. i have had reports from a few fellow anglers that the bait is comming back with all this warm weather. that is a great thing to hear. the last 3 times that the team went out we did not see even 1 mullet jump or any pods of bait. the weather is looking promising for sunday if you are a duck so having webbed feet i will be out. Master scuba has been stricken with a cold or some sort of bug so i will be going without him unless he has a miraculous recovery. the temps have been in the high 60's and some 70's and the water has warmed up enough for mabey even a top water bite. i will be primarily using the brown soft plastics in strawberry whipped cream and amber ch. full report after the trip.

lets all hope this crud goes away and the pattern of weekend rain and wind changes to during the week. it would be nice to have a great day on the water after all this gloomy stuff we have dealt with.

pics soon
Randall

Man its cold

OK we fished again today and finally found a fish or 2. they are mooving so slow that you can barely feel them bite.

capt. wayne said the water temp at the galv. channel is 48 deg. WOW.. thats cold stuff. the trout we caught today were frozen. I really believe that they were just biting out of instinct. i threw brown paddle tails and had a couple of hits early. the sun never came out from the clouds and it never had the chance to warm the flats.

as the story goes we fished 8 hours and had 3 fish to show. i finally caught a fish on the amber c/h mullet in the 8 ft. deep range. it was funny the way they were biting. i really think without the powerpro line i would not have felt the tap, cause thats all there was is a tap. if you did not set the hook emiediatly after the tap you missed the fish.
i see a turn in the weather coming soon and we will have a better report to show. here is a pic of the better fish

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