If you’re coming to Big Lake this month, be prepared to do both.” Other days you’ve got to do a lot of running and fish a lot of spots. “Some days you can fish one or two spots, and do well. “February is when the fishing really kicks off,” Poe said. To be successful on those days, you’ve got to have a run-and-gun mentality. There are times when the bite is so strong that anglers don’t even have to crank their big motors after stopping at their first spots.īut there are just as many, if not more, days when anglers have to move around the lake in a dizzying display of fishing 15 minutes then running 10 minutes. And so it goes at Calcasieu Lake during February. Had they been a day later, they probably wouldn’t have caught a fish. About the only thing I could say that might have influenced it was we were fishing as a big cold front was blowing through.” “Those big trout were packed in that cove, and we happened to be in there with them at the right time. “There wasn’t anything special going on,” he said. A few quick casts out of the back confirmed what he thought he knew. He recalled breaking off a Spook and having to wade back to his boat to tie on another one. Poe says they probably could have had the same kind of action had they fished from their boat. The topwater bite usually doesn’t kick off until hits 70, but those extra three degrees didn’t matter that day.” “It had been warm the week before, and the water temperature crept up to 67 degrees.
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