TexasT
04-30-2013, 11:36 AM
A buddy and I put in at Thompsons Bait Camp in Baytown about 7am to try to do a little fishing and catching hopefully. We made a couple of stops on some reefs, but had no takers. A fog bank moved in on us around 8:00 and we couldn't see a thing past 50 yards. That's when the GPS comes in handy as we ran about 20mph heading to the HLP Spillway. We couldn't see the spillway even though the GPS was showing that we were right on it. Suddenly we were bumping bottom as I could not see the spillway in order to take the correct route in. We got back to deeper water and waited until we could see the spillway then made the correct approach in to avoid the shallow water. We tied up to the bulkhead and began fishing and listening to Michael Berry on the radio I recently had installed. It was very relaxing sitting there talking and fishing. There was only 1 other boat there and he had come in before the fog.
Anyway. there was only one fish caught the entire day, but it was a very nice trout. It was just over 23" and weighed just over 4lbs according to the boga grip. My boga grip is the rip off version so I don't know how accurate it is. This is my personal best Trout thus far.:D It was a very enjoyable day with light wind and calm waters until we were heading back in. The water change to about a 1 foot chop even though the wind was still about 5-10mph. Loaded up and headed home to clean up the boat.
Anyway. there was only one fish caught the entire day, but it was a very nice trout. It was just over 23" and weighed just over 4lbs according to the boga grip. My boga grip is the rip off version so I don't know how accurate it is. This is my personal best Trout thus far.:D It was a very enjoyable day with light wind and calm waters until we were heading back in. The water change to about a 1 foot chop even though the wind was still about 5-10mph. Loaded up and headed home to clean up the boat.