Big Girl Sighting

We had great conditions this morning and a good bite on various plastics the first couple of hours this morning. Several nice trout made the box including a solid 22"er. Things dropped to a crawl as we continued to catch fish but not much size. At about eleven o'clock the winds laid down flat and the water greened up very well. We hit some spots we normally don't get to fish when the winds are blowing. Today it paid off. Dean went old school and broke out the Texas Roach Cocahoe minnow and worked around some belly deep rocks to pull out this Baffin Big Girl, a new personal best. Click on pic to enlarge.



A couple of quick pics and we released her back into the 87 degree waters. She swam off strong and a few high fives and congratulations were shared.



Things slowed down again as we tried several more likely spots. The winds kicked up out of the north and shifted to the east northeast before we finally decided to head in for the day. Ten fish for the box and the released Big Girl made for a successful day. Hot baits today were the Texas Roach Cocahoe, Royal Purple, Dark Strawberry, Rootbeer/red glitter and Cajun Pepper Devil Eyes rigged on 1/16 oz Tru-Lock jigheads were the ticket. All fish came in waist deep to chest deep water over rocks.