Ah, the joys of having a big brother. On one of their first fishing trips together, Daboo initiated Termite into the Fisherman Club by telling him he must kiss this catfish for good luck before releasing it. Because big brother knows everything about fishing, and because big brother basically hung the moon, Termite didn’t hesitate—not…
Today is the first day that Termite and I have fished our lake, Decade, since the Monday before Thanksgiving. That fishing trip was long and unproductive. I can’t say the same about today, though. We left in such a hurry that I forgot my camera. So there won’t be a running photo commentary of today’s…
Today was a total work day. I left the house before daylight and arrived home after dark. My office was about 7 miles long, and the East wind whipped around my work space all day. The sun shone, the clouds billowed, the marsh hens cackled, and the day ended with the horizon reflecting the most…
We pulled into the lake about 7 a.m. looking for clean water and it looked pretty decent so we began to drift and cast. Termite commented that the boats looked like they were all on anchor, and there was not much wind action. We watched them for a minute and once in a while they…
It was a beautiful day watching the shrimp jump and the gulls dive. Only thing better than that was watching our Cantaloupe Pogeaux Pops go down, down, down. We ended the day with a box full of trout and tired arms!
It seems the trout are still making their way up into the lake I like to fish the most, Lake Decade. Termite and I fished from one end of the lake to the other and picked up a few trout at every spot. Termite caught the most trout today and the BIGGEST trout. I was very…