“Goofish” saved our bacon on Pool 9 over the weekend. That’s what folks from Louisiana call Sheepies…and several 7-10 pounders put grins on the faces of fellow guide Daryl Dispensire and his Daddy Mr. Frank. Daryl caught his first two legal walleyes on red/white/blue 5/8 ounce hair below Genoa dam on Friday…but only two more ‘greenies ‘by the time they headed back to Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon.
Launched at Blackhawk Saturday morning in a howling south wind. Mr. Frank got a pair of smallies off of windgam straight out from launch. We boated several weenie snaugers at lower end of Minnesota slough, one 16 incher on a purple Lindy thumpin’ worm. Several more weenie snaugers up by the “S” turn. Nothing above that. Threw cranks on shoreline rip-rap on main channel and caught 2 small LMB and two more SMB….and then the wind laid down about dark.
Headed back to dam for more vertical jigging Hair with meat and plastics. A greenie and a snauger worth keeping on ringworm, three more respectable snaugers on hair/meat.
Sunday morning, back to the dam. Quality of snaugers more like Vienna snausages than weenies.
Back downstream below Twin island for our remaining two hours on the water. Pitched Chompers skirted hula grubs and banged a few bass…three 7-10 pound sheepshead hit the chompers,too. Cajuns call sheepies “Gaspargou”…said they’re better eating than walleye if y’all cook ’em in tomato gravy. Will let you know in February when I hook up with Daryl again to chase specks and redfish at Grand Isle and tuna offshore at Venice.
We’ve got another front coming tomorrow nite. anticpate action to improve greatly by weekend as waters cool…especially nite bite under full moon influence!