IFA Rockport

I prefished Friday and Saturday before the tournament with good numbers Saturday. On tournament day the fish were there but the wind was blasting. I managed a twenty two inch red and a eighteen and a half inch trout early in the morning. There were a lot of bigger fish in the mix that were smashing my topwater but could not get a hook in their mouth. I want to know how a six inch piggy perch can get a hook in its mouth on a topwater and a twenty five inch red cant. My total of forty and a half inches was only good enough for ninth place, but I got a nice check for having the highest score out of a Hobie kayak. Once again the IFA and Hobie put on a great event and I am looking forward to many more years of fishing in it.

Hole In One

I did a little fresh water fishing today after work at the neighborhood golf course. It’s always fun fishing at the golf course because the golfers look at me like I’m crazy. I guess I am kinda crazy for dodging golf balls in between casts, but it’s worth it. In the hour I was there I managed four bass and four crappie, the bass were in the one to two pound range and the crappie were around ten inches with one almost fourteen.

This fish was close to the mark I have for trout on my rod.

Sabine strike out

Fished the North West end of Sabine Sunday morning with little to show for it. The bait was thick but the fish weren’t there. I managed one flounder on a corky, two blowups on a topwater, one missed flounder on a gulp jerk shad, and missed a redfish on a corky. The weather was nice, but the fishing could have been better. I guess that’s why it’s called fishing and not catching.

Good news

After a few weeks of hit and miss fishing trips my luck started to change when I received some good news from Hobie. I am now a member of the Hobie Fishing Team and I am proud to say Austin canoe and kayak is my local Hobie dealer who I will be representing. I am very thankful that Hobie and Austin canoe and kayak have given me the opportunity to represent them. Austin canoe and kayak will be having there big demo weekend April 16&17 in Missouri city where you can check out all of there kayaks and take them for a paddle, hope to see you there.

Gulf Coast Fishing Team Tournament

The Gulf Coast Fishing Team tournaments are going to start up on Feb 5th. This is going to be a fun and affordable series to fish in. There will be a boat, kayak/wade, and kids division there will also be some side pots to get into. Here is the link http://gulfcoastfishingteam.org/index.html hope to see you there.

Midnight Madness II

We made another trip down to west bay Wednesday night to get some meat for the freezer. The East wind was blasting and it was making fishing tough, but we managed twenty one nice trout and a dozen throw backs. All fish were caught on purple chartreuse tail Mirror lure soft plastics and pumpkin seed with chartreuse tail. Once again the preferred retrieve was a slow steady reel with a light twitch every so often. I wasn’t able to take a lot of pictures due to the sporty conditions on the water but I did get one of the ice chest full of fish and Cody holding the first fish of the night. If anyone from Mirror Lure is reading this I just want to say you make the toughest soft plastics I have ever used. I have used the same lure on two trips and caught around forty fish on it and its good for another trip or two.

Midnight Madness

We launched the yaks around three o’clock to catch the evening bite and picked up a few 16”-18” trout and some ret reds. After the sun set the big girls came out to eat. We caught three trout over 20” and a red that went 23”. At eight o’clock we decided to go grab a bite to eat and wait for the outgoing tide. Around midnight we got back on the water and it was feeding time. The bite to cast ratio was about one out of five and the hookup ratio was about one out of three. The tally for the night was around thirty trout with ten over 20” and half of those were over 25”. Fish were caught on plum chartreuse TTF straight tails and glow mirror lures. All fish were set free to fight another day.