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already been that’s when the real deal went down. Sustained twenty-five knots worth of southeast that kicked well over thirty at times had us running tight against the bank to protect kidneys. Bordering an otherwise trashed Lagoon, right along the shore, laid a mysteriously gorgeous clear strip about thirty feet wide. Shortly I hear a yelp, then a loud, “Wow - did y’all see how big that trout was?” Before we could respond we all saw another, and then yet another, then there was a group of three. Suddenly we passed about ten more just laying there looking like black torpedoes against the hard sand. Unbelievable! Sure, we’ve all seen big trout before, but how many times do we see so many bunched together? It seemed like pure fantasy but the adrenaline said it was real. Pay dirt for the camera; the grin says it all!
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To her credit, Capt. Tricia had actually found these fish a week before. She thought they were reds at first, but after believing what she was seeing, soon had her people sight-catching several trout between six and eight pounds. Incredible; and I’m sure she will mention it, but whoever imagined a repeat? Yet there they were, crystal clear water with zero visible bait, so everything we saw moving was a trout! What were they doing there? Right then it didn’t matter because we were there too. A few screams later we yanked back on the throttle and bailed out in full stalking-heron mode. Bear in mind, we had just aggressively burned these fish pushing a knee-deep wake from Hell. Unfortunate, that, but unbelievably they didn’t seem to spook. The ones that didn’t laze towards the bank just sort of sat there as if to say, “So…What are you gonna do about it?” Almost immediately Mike Jones said, “Here comes two,” with much greater composure than I could have mustered, by the way. Oh my quivering self…what to throw? I fumbled a knot onto a clear hologram Fat Boy, figuring it had good range and a low spook factor along with extreme versatility. A big single appeared to the left, and then three more materialized near the bank riding each other’s shoulders. Just like Tricia said, the bigger ones were pulling rank in the lead. What I imagined was a good cast was quickly demonized by an uncompensated, blistering side wind. A bit
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