gotmuddy Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 load up and come along pete. everything in this post is purely opinion and is said to annoy you.
snagged in outlet 3 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Thanks Cody. I should have jumped on this back when you guys started talking about it. I love red fishing! Are you going to Taney this weekend? Pete
gotmuddy Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 I want to but I don't think I can swing it. We are moving into the new house. Maybe I can squeeze some time in everything in this post is purely opinion and is said to annoy you.
snagged in outlet 3 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Congrats on the new house. I'll be Thursday night to Sunday if you can make it. They are calling for snow here Sunday so I may leave Saturday to beat it. I got caught in an ice storm coming back from Taney a bunch of years ago and I don't want to do that again. Took me 11 hours to get home. Pete Terrierman 1
Terrierman Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Congrats on the new house. I'll be Thursday night to Sunday if you can make it. They are calling for snow here Sunday so I may leave Saturday to beat it. I got caught in an ice storm coming back from Taney a bunch of years ago and I don't want to do that again. Took me 11 hours to get home. Pete I had a similar experience when we lived in Jefferson City. Going home after George Birthington's Washday trip. Pulling a boat and watching it try to pass me on I-44 about five miles west of Marshfield. Wound up going down into the median where the grass straightened everything out and then all cool calm and collected like, just drove back up on the highway. And then started shaking. Talk about could have been worse.... That was before they fenced off crossing into the oncoming lanes. Wow, that was my lucky day.
snagged in outlet 3 Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 We made it up to Lebanon and the truck was acting funny so we pulled off to check it out. The wheel wells had totally filled with ice and the tires were hitting up against it. Nothing to do but keep driving. That reminds of when my dad was driving back from Montana. I feel asleep only to wake up and see my dad sleeping behind the wheel and driving down the grass median. He was out like a light and he looked so peaceful. Then I woke him up and he jerked back up on the pavement. I couldn't stop laughing at him.
Plastic_worm Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 This post is making me crazy...I've been look'n back at all my trips and it's make'n it worse. Y'all enjoy!! gotmuddy 1 YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5T_lKUH3gVkxSraJWUVzoQ FB - https://www.facebook.com/looknfishy Blog - http://looknfishy.blogspot.com/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/looknfishy/
snagged in outlet 3 Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Did you guys go??? Report please. Pete
grizwilson Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Had to run the a/c Sunday night it was just terrible. Those people are so rude mowing their yards while we were catching fish. “If a cluttered desk is a sign, of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk a sign?”- Albert Einstein
Ham Posted February 10, 2015 Posted February 10, 2015 Local fishing conditions were MUCH less than ideal. Rains to the north a few days prior to our visit had caused most of the river systems to be blown out. We only had a couple of inches of visibility and maybe as importantly all that water lowered the salinity which can drive the specs out to the ocean. We talked to multiple local guys in high dollar boats that were scratching their heads trying to fiure out a way to catch a few fish. We were told that the fishing had been great prior to the muddy water. When you a working stiff, you have to plan ahead and go when you get a yard pass. I play the cards I'm given. So despite the dirty water, when the fish refused full size offerings, I fed then finesse. Because Dave suggested that I give the Ned a try, I had my Ned gear. I think about my third cast with the Ned I was hooked up. At one point, I dialed in on a kill zone and had fish hooked up four casts in a row. I was lucky enough to get to fish with Richard Button who is a buddy of Billethead. Richard is a very good fisherman and was willing to stay in a set location and continue to work the Ned with very determined retrieves. Fish are moving in and out of the small bayou we were set up in and every so often there would be a flurry of bites. After, I caught a few fish, Richard tied on the Ned rig that I was offering. I was able to set up Les and Cody with Ned offerings as well. As is often the case, I had decent numbers with minimal size. Henceforth, whenever you catch an undersized Red, feel free to refer to it as a "ham sized" Red instead of a Rat Red. I caught numerous fish that would have been legal in La, but not in Texas. All my flounder were too small to keep. I had a couple of decent Specks, some small Black Drum, and a croaker. Friday was cool, cloudy, and windy. Friday was much warmer, but still kind of windy. Sunday was WARM and windy. Thank God for the wind. The mosquitos would have carried us away and left our drained bodies for the crabs. Water temps climbed so rapidly. We saw 49 degree water in the afternoon of Friday. Water temp was all the way up to 69 degrees on Sunday afternoon. I am confident that if the water had been normal that we would have caught more and bigger fish, but I had a great time catching the fish I caught and a lot of laughs with the fellows. Round trip it was 1515 miles. It was as pleasent a 12 hour drive as you could ever have. I finished up catching 71 fish over the three days. Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish
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