Speckle Trout

[Catt]

100 Speckle Trout & 30 Sand Trout in 1 hr 30 min @ night on Calcasieu (Big) Lake

My son is the one in the blue t-shirt

[Captain Rhino]

What bait did they use? How deep did they fish?

[Catt]

Live Shrimp, no weight, or cork

Point with a channel on one side and a shallow flat on the other; 8-12'

[Captain Rhino]

Looks like an awesome time...

[nUgZ]

Nice catch but I'd hate to be the one responsible for cleaning them all.

[aarogb]

     Catt, those are some great fish, tell your son I said that.

      

     One question though, up here on the Carolina coast the Trout fishing gets better when the water cools down a lot.  Is that true down there as well?

    

[TrailerHook]

I live in NW Florida and I don't know that the speck fishing gets better in the winter months, but it does tend to get a little easier. What I mean by that is that those with the right know-how and equipment have no trouble catching them year-round in these parts but they have to cover a lot more water to find them. However, in the late fall and on through the winter as the saltier waters of the bay and Gulf cool down, the specks tend to move up in the rivers and creeks as they seek warmer water and more food. This concentrates them in smaller areas and makes them easier to locate and more accessible to anglers like me who do not have a boat worthy of pursuing them in the open waters of the bay. In the winter months, I can fish for them just fine in the rivers and creeks from my 17 foot bass boat.

[Catt]

Calcasieu (Big) Lake is excellent trout & Red fishing year round