8/17/2024 Forgot How Special It Is TO Be Able To Fish Weekdays Versus The Weekend

Austin finished his first week of HS and so we are now forced to fish the weekends. Man retirement is special if for anything else besides being able to fish during the week when most people are at work. Launched at Main St. at 8:30. Slight falling tide, surface temp 88 F, and water looked like weak ice tea. Found some sacs at one spot and caught 6 keepers before they figured out that when one of them ate the jig they would disappear. So we had 6 keepers in less than 30 minutes. We then started hitting all our spots and found them vacant of decent size sacalait. The bayou had outboard motor foam stripes everywhere, which we never would see when fishing during the week. The endless parade of party barges, jet skiers and fisherman running over or near our best recruiting spots probably drove the big fish to the bottom in the grass or into open water. So we had it back on the trailer by 12. We returned to the scene of the crime, our original spot, on the way back to the launch and discovered the sacalait were no longer there either. Austin pitched out near the structure anyway and a blue cat inhaled the jig.


Austin cleaned the fish using the electric Bubba knife for the first time. There is nothing like fresh sacalait.


Another Paw Paw Adventure in the books.


Bon Temps!!

I understand the pain of kids in school as well. Due to pay grade, years of service, and recent vacation and holiday improvements at work, I have 5 weeks of vacation in addition to the 16 holidays also allotted. I already allocated a bunch for July shutdown and Fall Break, and then I’ve been using the rest for fishing; had I known that I would have so much free time at work, I probably would have saved some of the vacation time during the spring spawn to spread out thru the summer as well. This doesn’t help with the opportunities to take my son or nephew fishing since both are in middle school, although I can get more quality time during the week to potentially help the weekend fishing when I can take the boys.


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Thanks for taking us along paw paw.

Nice. Good job and catches. Thanks for sharing

wont be long before the water gets chilly and the party wains .....just saying ....drop that water temp to 75/80 or less and them wanna go play in folks will stay home

It’s amazing how quiet the lakes get after Labor Day holiday, college football gets into full swing, and it gets cool enough to close the pools.