Wow, what a trip. Jeff flew down for a week of fishing and did we have a ball. Our first three days we landed 262 bass up to around the six pound mark. These were all at the Stick Marsh. Day four we headed for Lake Jackson to give it a look over. Neither of us had ever been there before so we were looking forward to it. Where Stick Marsh is all wood, Lake Jackson is all shallow grass so we had to change our presentations dramatically. We got some fish on surface frogs and Senkos. Very windy and no cover so it was a bit hard to fish. We will absolutely go back and look at it again another time. Back to the Stick Marsh for three more days of fishing in the wind. The bite slowed down but Jeff got his big fish of the trip on the last day. She tipped the scales at 8lbs. Not a bad way to spend a week and certainly not a bad way to end it. The cost to fish Stick Marsh in the wind was two broken transducers, one shredded drift sock, one busted up seat from me getting knocked off my feet when we hit a stump. We also trashed the throttle linkage on the jet drive when we hung up on a stump and I broke a Stradic and banged up some ribs when we hit a stump backwards in the wind and down I went again. Did I mention that we had a lot of fun while we were going through all of the above. For most of my fishing I was using 6’6″ Shimano Crucial medium heavy spinning rods, Stradic reels spooled with 15 lb Power Pro and a short 15 lb flourocarbon leader. One day was a good spinner bait bite and I was throwing a half ounce Terminator Titanium spinnerbait on a Crucial CRC-X68m rod and a very battle scarred Curado 200 with 20 lb Power Pro. I really liked the Terminator Titanium spinnerbait. I caught a ton of fish on it and it will not deform like a steel framed bait will. A little more cost up front but a lot more fish without changing baits.
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