GREAT TROUT FISHING

5-16-2011--What a great day for trout fishing. The last three days had been mediocre for me with 18 trout being the best of the three days. Today, changed all that. Only had one guest today and we waded in an entirely different area than I had fished lately. We stated with croaker and then switched to artificial lures which proved very effective. To my surprise top water lures worked but soft plastics didn't draw much attention. We completed his limit of 10 trout by 7:30 AM and kept 9 in case we deep hooked one that needed to be kept later. We did catch and release until 1:00 PM and caught well over 100 keeper trout of which over 25 were more than 20 inches in length. We only caught a handful of throw backs all day. The trout ranged up in size to 24 1/2 inches. My guest had on a huge trout that he was already considering having mounted when the end hook on his skitterwalk pulled loose right at his landing net. The trout of a lifetime could have come today but we weren't that lucky. Tomorrow we are taking his wife and fishing out of the boat closer to home.