Anyone have any luck at horseshoe lately. Have the fish started moving up into happy jack yet or is trolling still the best bet right now. Has anyone ever long-lined at horseshoe?
Ringo
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Anyone have any luck at horseshoe lately. Have the fish started moving up into happy jack yet or is trolling still the best bet right now. Has anyone ever long-lined at horseshoe?
Ringo
Nothing yesterday...like fishing on the Gulf w/the 20+ wind. 2 dudes sank their boat. In a small jon boat w/nothing but a t/m. Crazy.
Horseshoe white caps with a 5mph wind, yesterday was not the day to be there in a small boat.
Did you mean '15 mph wind'? That's about what it takes there for whitecaps. I've fished it under those conditions in my 17 footer, but anything smaller makes for a long, rough, dangerous day.Quote:
Originally Posted by soswine
No i didnt mean 15mph but I was being a little sarcastic, but only just a little.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MaggiesMaster
That place seems to catch wind about as bad as any place I have ever fished. And ofcourse in another month the durned jetski's and play boaters will get thick making it even worse. Between the wind and the knuckleheads I usually end up with a case of high blood pressure so I just stopped fishing there.:D
Years ago a friend and I were fishing Horseshoe for the 1st time. We were in a small 14' Ouachita jon boat I had at the time when a front suddenly blew through with high winds. The waves came up, and I started in, but water was coming into the boat faster than we could bail it out. We barely made it to the shelter of a boat house before we swamped and were able to bail out the boat. We then limped along the shore using docks and boat houses to shelter us till we made it back to the landing. I got a bigger boat after that.
Me and a friend fished the piers today and caught 35 in about 3 hours. We were using red and chart jigs in about 10 feet of water. All nice size fish
Were you jigging or casting. Memphisslab, do you fish the deeper docks towards snowden's or the shallower docks towards the southeast end.
Thanks for the update. Glad to know someone is catching at the shoe.
thanks,
ringo
Horseshoe can get very ugly with any kind of south wind.
Ringo, we were fishing the deeper piers towards Snowden's.We were casting for em with red and chart jigs... I managed 29 today, but that southeast wind today made me work for em.
Thanks, Memphisslab. We will be there on friday to give it a try. they should be biting with a south wind. Only bad thing it is supposed to be about 13 mph. We always try the casting but i also love to jig for them.
Ringo
Anyone fish today or yesterday. Just need an idea what depth to start at tomorrow. May take awhile to find the fish, but they should be fairly shallow. Thanks,
Ringo
Fishing those piers Friday will be difficult tomorrow with that strong south wind. Hopefully after Saturday's coldfront the winds will shift back around. The Agfc site reported fish biting from 4 -6 feet. Good luck!
We ended up with 10 today drifting jigs. Wind was brutal.
Ringo