Trout at Humble

Date Fished: 06/01/05 and 06/02/05 Water Temperature: warm Water Clarity: clear

You guys up in Dallas missed out on some prime fishing here in Corpus the past couple of days. Headed out with Levar to Humble Channel June 1st. The water was clear and we were wading out on the North side of the bridge. The shrimp were thick in the water as well as the trout. There were so many trout that you could literally net them right in front of you if you were quick enough. We took home 15 good sized keepers and threw back probably 10-12 keepers right at 15 inches. It was a great night for fishing. All trout were 16 to 19 inches. All fish were caught on lures as well. I caught the majority of mine on a rootbeer Cocahoe Minnow with chartrese tail and salt and pepper sand eel with a chartrese tail. I tried a couple of DOA shrimp and caught only small trout with them. The sand eels worked really well.

The night before was so good we decided to do it again yesterday. We headed out about 8:30 and got our spot back but word of mouth spreads quickly in Corpus and with 15 minutes people started comming out of the woodwork. By 9:00 there was almost no room to fish at all and boats had even moved in. Needless to say there were quite a few tangled lines but everyone was pretty nice and everyone managed to get a piece of the action. We took home another 15 but the size of the trout were much smaller than they had been the night before (15 to 16 inches). All my fish were caught again on salt and pepper sand eel plastics with chartrese tails. All in all it was still a fine fishing trip but I am gonna give Humble a rest until early next week because I have a strange feeling that it is going to be packed as hell out there this weekend.