Tried a new lagoon today

[Koz]

With water temps reaching their peak recently the fishing at our normal hot spots has been poor lately so I decided to try a new lagoon. It's near one of our productive lagoons and I had driven by and scouted it in the past. It has a few houses along one side, but the rest has some good aquatic vegetation along the shore that we can reach from the bank.

 

But as soon as we pulled up I could see that at least for today we weren't going to be able to fish there. The photos say it all. The house in the background gives you some perspective on the size of this gator. This one had a bit of girth to it.

 

We moved to a second new lagoon that looked promising. There are no houses on it and plenty of laydowns along the back side that you could reach with a decent cast. I started making my way down the length of the lagoon and another big gator showed up. He swam out to let me know I was in his territory but didn't chase my baits. But within a few minutes the skies opened up with a torrential downpour so we called it quits for the day.

 

While the weather is still going to be hot here for a while, the water may cool off a bit soon - but not in a good way. We're keeping an eye on Hurricane Florence right now. We're still within the cone of probability, but so far it looks like it's going to head north of us. Two years ago we got hit with a hurricane and last year with a big tropical storm. I really don't want to have to evacuate again. Fingers crossed...

 

 

 

 

[Oregon Native]

Must be lots of fish around...that guy doesn't look like he's missed many meals!!

[Catt]

Sauce Piquante ?

[mattkenzer]

Gracious .... I see a couple crows on my front lawn and i get squirrely.

I will take the winter snow.