Muddy water after the storm has not helped fishing . Had a trip today with Dolphin Docks today on a 4 hour bay trip.We caught 4 nice two pound Mangrove snapper ,sand trout ,big whitting ,couple of nice gafftop,a couple of small sharks. All in all it was a good trip after the storm. Also found out today my new 22' pathfinder will be ready for me Wednesday. I will post some pics of it later . The offshore bite has really slowed since the storm ,but it will pick up each day better than the day before.

AAAAdddoorrrin fans

Here is a letter from some of my adoring fans .Not really they think my daughter is hot ,but they did send some pics of our trip.
Dear Captain Doug,
My folks and I just wanted to thank you for a good trip out on the water. We definately want to come back hopefully sometime in the near future once we can get away from things again. I think I have actually talked some friends of mine into going deep sea fishing maybe in a few months after we get our bonus checks in September, but you know how plans can go sometimes...anyways my dad wanted me to send yall some of the pictures from the trip so hopefully they turned out alright. Our computers been running funny lately. Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Josh Smith and the rest of the 'New Braunfels Rednecks'
P.S. So umm...yeah just a thought, you should totally bring your daughter from the store on the next trip. Justa thought...haha

Lots of Charters, Lots of Fish

Hey, there, sorry I have been so behind in my blog, but I have been really busy with 1-2 trips a day as July is turning out to be a great month.  The water has been really calm and we have been able to go out to the deeper water. Last Wed on a trip with my good friend Bobby  (who comes all the way from Wichita Falls to fish with me every summer) we caught limits of kingfish and a 50 lb. shark which is pictured in the last post.  This same day by son (Capt. Brad) also brought in a 100 lb. shark.  

Wednesday we went off shore with Capt. Ed Zielinski, Zac Zielinski, Todd, Bobby, and Capt. Ron Matson.  We caught red snapper, kingfish, barracuda, rainbow runner, and quick-released a couple of huge sharks.  We were 70 miles offshore fishing for billfish, but couldn't get any to bite, but were quite happy with our catch anyway.  

Sunday I took a family from New Braunfels out for the first time and we had a great time.  They caught kingfish, trout, cooler full of large gafftop.  

Last night, (Monday) I took out a group  for an evening trip. The fishing is beggining to get a little slow because of the tropical storm coming in.  We saw some tarpon, caught a small shark, a ling, speckled trout.  They all had a great time. We watched dolphins up close as their 3 and 7 year old sons really enjoyed this. They both caught fish and one caught his first shark.  Yesterday, Capt Brad on his trip caught 5 kingfish and one 37 lb. ling. 

Fishing with Bobby

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Hello!
Sorry for the lack of updates as Doug's been really busy and out fishing every day, but he says he's going to be blogging more often once he gets a chance. So until he's able to post himself, I (his daughter, Kacie) will be updating for him.

Back in June both Brad and Doug's photo appeared in the Salt Water Texas paper.


"Captains Doug and Brad Stanford of Pirates of the Bay Fishing Charters are shown with a 28 in. trout and a nice redfish that were caught by the charter they took out on the first day of Spring Fling."