I went down to the Lake Mars launch about 7:30 am (I'm not the best at getting myself up early for fishing), and the pier was full of people, but I had the adjacent beach all to myself. On a side note, Tropical Storm Lee changed the beach quite drastically. The waves and 2 ft storm surge broke down the beach and made it wider, more gently sloping, and actually much nicer to walk on. Within a short period of time, I managed to catch a few flounder and a small redfish by simply blind casting and casting to visible boils with a pink and tan Clouser type fly (I think it has another name, but I can't remember). The fishing cooled off as the sun got higher.
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| The little redfish are prettier anyway... |
More pictures and words after the jump:
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| What!? Two eyes on one side? |
In the evening, I went over to East Beach in Ocean Springs - the bugs by Lake Mars can get really bad at night. There was a lot of surface action, so I put on a Zoo Cougar (I know, best name for a fly ever).
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| Zoo Cougar |
I don't know if people actually use Zoo Cougars down here on the coast - it might be a northern fly - but its the only thing close to a popper that I have right now. I got a hit on the first cast and started thinking it was going to be an awesome night. A few casts later, after a third hit, I hooked up with a fish, but after a very strange and quite energetic fight, I realized it was a mullet hooked through its back! I can only assume that I managed to snag it in my effort to set the hook on what was probably a speck.
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| Mullet on the fly. kind of... |
After that I only got a couple more hits - my Zoo Cougar started to sink, and apparently they didn't like it as much. The end result is I didn't actually catch a legitimate fish, so now I am hungry to try some more popper fishing.
And I leave you with this...
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| Hey, self portraiture is hard. |
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