Fishing Sabine Lake

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The key to catching speckled trout on Sabine Lake in the winter time is locating bait. The weather has been cold for awhile, but two or three days of warmer weather has been triggering the bite.  As the water warms up, it tends to get the baitfish (mullet) active and the sow trout are not far behind them. Look for any surface activity such as mullet jumping on the flats or even swimming under the surface. If there is bait, there is speckled trout.  The best methods this time of the year is by far is wade and drift fishing.  Fish your shallow flats with isolated shell and try to also fish an area where there is deep water near by. On the cooler days the speckled trout will move into bayous or drop offs. When it warms back up, the spceckled trout will head toward the flats to feast on mullet.  Afternoon fishing has been producing the most consistent bite. The speckled trout have been hammering the Flounder Pounder RAT FISH!! For any of you anglers who do not have one, i would highly recommend contacting Joe and Phill Ortiz at flounderpounder.net. These ratfish can be fished slowly and have rattling eyes which is triggering the bite. Also many fish catching colors available! Fishing should remain to get hotter as Spring time is approaching, but for now pick and choose the warmer Winter days and you will be greatly rewarded.  Coffee ground cove still remains one of the better spots to catch reds and speckled trout!

Sabine Lake is still producing nice limits of redfish and  trout. The key to catching these winter fish right now is choosing the right days to fish! You have to pick your days between weather patterns such as cold fronts. The water temps are cool right now but two days of warmer weather has been  triggering the bite lately. Remember to fish slow and hard and when you find them and you can wear them out!  Soft plastics rigged on 1/8th jig heads in red shad has been the ticket along with catch 200’s and corkies.

Fished with George Dearbornne and his crew out of Texas. We started out in the Lake first and caught trout under the birds!! The fish were real skittish and it was a soft bite. The water on the north end of the lake looked like chocolate milk. We still managed to catch fish there. The better bite was down South with a little bit of better water clarity. After putting 20 trout in the box, we decided to go catch the redfish!  Believe me, we did! Caught our twenty five reds in an hour and released just as many! REDFISH BITE IS ON!!   Its been a long time since I have seen that many reds in the marsh! It is so much fun to watch clients rods bend and lines breaking! Just another awesome day on Sabine Lake!!  I hope Taylor, Perry,Tom and George will  remember this trip and be able to come back and do it again!! Great fishing guys!

Fished an afternoon trip with Glen Grantham,Wade Vincent, and John Foster. Limited out on redfish in about an hour!! The redfish are stacked in the marshes and eating shad and mullet like crazy. It wasn’t uncommon to have four rods bent at one time!! These redfish are going to be there awhile. Book now if you would like to catch lots of reds!!