Rockport Spring Fling 08

I was in the Rockport Spring Fling media event last Monday and Tuesday this was my second year for this.This was no tournament but Brad and I really owned the show. This was 15 guides in Rockport ,last year 30.Everybody was struggling to get a bite on live bait ,not us.I had Peggy York (women in the outdoors),Dennis Smith,his wife Diana{Luresafty Wrap},and John Stuart {Scent Shop Manufacturing}.We caught lots of small reds and trout .Then we went after big trout ,John caught a 7lb ,28"monster trout on a Berkley jerk shad ,that i gave everybody.I had a nice 24" red and Dennis had several keeper trout.We all had a blast as I aggravated them as best I could .When we got to the boat ramp at 2;00 the Parks and wildlife was doing creel surveys .They said they had only seen 3 fish brought in so far till we came along. The survey man got excited and told John to go get that fish mounted ,and could not believe they were all caught on artificial lures.
At the dinner that night there was a guide bragging they took an air boat into the back lakes an got 9 rat reds ,only 1 was 31' nice fish but I knew i could do better.The next day I had Dennis Smith only in my boat ,his wife went shopping.I also drew T.J. Greeley for the second time in a row.I had this jerk last year .He stood me up and went filming somewhere else with somebody Else's boat in tow.I also had Burk Elliot {Gulf Coast Fisherman} who also bailed out on me saying he was sick.
So it was just me and Dennis fishing .We got to our spot it was dead calm and hard to catch anything ,but we did manage a few small red and trout .Dennis got a nice 22' trout on a corkie until my son Brad called me. He told me to get to the south jetty ASAP.He had already caught several keeper reds and several over-sized reds in a 4 hour trip.The biggest was 43" 37lbs.I ran the trip in 15 min. within 5 min.I already hooked up a nice 27 3/4 '' red.we fished for about 30 min then went on to other holes for monster reds.As i went to them they were all fouled up by drilling rigs and huge ship waves.As I rounded the way back to the boat ramp I had several more spots to make some easy catches but Dennis wanted to go in early. i loaded up the boat as Dennis made a fast dash to somewhere else.
When we me later for lunch at Charlotte Plummer's ,Brad met me there and already Had some monster photos printed up.I Had to convince Larry Bozka that brad had actually caught those big reds and verify it by looking at his clothing .Larry finally belied us when he looked at brads digital camera and saw the date.Anyways I have enclosed some pics for you.