![]() The morning would be divided into two parts, Watkins said. ![]() The closer we came to Sabine Lake, the fewer the trees became - and the more the landscape was dominated by stands of 6-foot tall roseau canes. The area not industrialized was beautiful, freshwater marsh broken by individual and clumped cypress trees. “It has limited parking, especially on weekends, and also a history of occasional vandalism,” he explained.Īt the launch, we were 5 miles upriver from Sabine Lake and about 60 miles south of Toledo Bend Reservoir. He eschewed using the Burned Out Bridge Launch on old Highway 90 southwest of Vinton. Watkins launched his boat in Orange, Texas because it is a good, wide, multilane public facility maintained by the City of Orange. (Yeah, I remembered that he said these were actually the best conditions, but still ….) It seemed an odd time to be bass fishing - an 8 o’clock boat launch into the river, a north wind, azure blue skies, high pressure and downright nippy for early fall. I will let him know when things are right.” His son Hunter and I were good friends in college. “You know Ken Chaumont, the owner of Egret Baits. The 40-year-old firefighter captain from Longville, Louisiana had invited me over. “Best conditions are post-frontal: blue skies, high pressure, north wind. Those fish know it,” he reiterated emphatically. “These Sabine River bass know it when it happens. Any kind of north wind 5 to 7 miles per hour will flush them out of the marsh. “Shrimp will occur in the summer, but we really start seeing them in the fall - September through December.
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