Fat Redfish with Capt. Paul Braly

Texas Tops' Jeff Austin and I went fishing today and we have been pre-fishing to train further for the Texas Trout Series which will be held this weekend. It had been a tough day for both of us since trout are giving us a hard time looking for one. It?s a good thing we brought with us the Devil Eyes that we were able to do some practice.

As we go through the water, we only found a single inshore fish hopping the wide area, unlike the other day where I saw much of them. Few minutes later, Jeff got the first bite with the Devil Eye of Amber color with 1/4 ounce Truloc. The first hook was empty though. Then I got my hook bitten but it was another empty lure as well. After waiting for another few minutes, the hook got an 18" Speckled trout on it, and then we went to the second spot.

At this spot the water was a little cleaner so I put on a Dark Strawberry Blue Devil Eye and Jeff pulled out a white stink bait (you know the G word) so we jumped out and got going. We were trading off on schooling trout lock ups but no real weight for either of us.

We then came to an area that we needed the boat to get to the other side of to continue our wade so Jeff being the good guy that he is went back and brought the boat.

We continued wading through the deep water to the other side. We checked for the right spot by measuring the depth through a rod. Then we were able to find a spot and I tried casting a lure and got myself a fat redfish. Shortly, I saw Jeff casting his Devil Eyes and he got one too. After some time we both got some more redfish.

When the fishing is tough the Devil Eyes are a great go to lure. We used a 10-11 O'Clock tripple bounce with a 5 second pause and just repeated that on every cast. Remember that when the fishing gets tough to use a bait you belive in, form a pattern and your bite will come.