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McCombs’s Brake

Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | Author:

Jackson, Juan Luis Hernandez, and I went to McComb’s Brake, an oxbow off of Bayou Bartholomew, Friday afternoon.  It is a beautiful cypress lined lake that has floating vegetation that is so thick it limits where you can go in the boat.  Many large alligators. Juan Luis was on his first bass fishing expedition but caught one and a large gizzard shad on a worm. Jackson and I caught about 7 in the two hours of fishing, using spinnerbaits, topwaters and a buzzbait. We saw a large bass hit near the bank and when I threw the buzz in behind the log he hit at it immediately but missed. The brush hog was next which he hit but when I set the hook got hung up. The buzz was next and it hit hung up behind a log.Upon retrieving the buzz we had to use the pole with the hook and had a hard time at that.  I kept pulling part of a small snake out from under the log.  When the buzz finally came out, so did the snake hooked in the mouth. Jackson held the snake, gingerly took the hook out of it’s mouth and threw it back.  He was much kinder to the snake than I would have been. The Pughs have a neat house built on the edge of the brake that is out over the water and has large windows that open out to the water. Close to dark, a 12 ro 14 foot alligator came steaming up for his marshmellow snacks thrown from the window. We were standing only about 5 feet away, behing a wooden wall thank goodness.  Came close for a portrait.08282009730108282009731Chasing a treat.

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