We woke and got a pretty late start.
Drove to Gabes, got the boat.
Got on the water, started trolling around McGee Bay and near Sandy Point. There were quite a few tubers at Sandy Point. We hooked up one brown near the restroom in McGee in about 12 ft of water. We were trolling Tazmanian Devils and Needlefish.
We decided to round the corner and look up the north arm, to find a TON of boats up there. Whoops, this is where we should have started!
We pulled into the 'floatilla' and started midging. Tim was getting bites pretty quick on a broken back blood midge with copper head. We talked to a guy that said the fishing was better a little earlier. We didn't get there till about 12pm. Tim missed a few fish, and FINALLY my indicator goes down, and I hook up. Nice fish, a really nice brown actually. We were in about 8.7ft of water, and fishing 6-12" above the bottom. I caught mine on a size 18 zebra midge with a black head. We got several more take downs, and landed a few. Tim lost a fatty rainbow because he was leaping 3 ft out of the air!
It started to rain, so we decided to start trolling. We hooked up a few fish, including another nice brown on a Tazmanian. We were trolling anywhere from Green Banks to Alligator Point. We put out a Wooly Bugger on a fly rod and hooked up pretty quick, so we then put out two fly rods, and caught several more fish, including a fatty rainbow on a Wooly on a leadcore pole.
We fished nearly till 5pm then called it a day and headed home.
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