FISH EVERYWHERE

My guys from New Mexico and I started today at the Jetties and caught a quick limit of Reds, then we ran offshore. The weather is beautiful, the water is blue. Today's temperature was around 88 with very little wind. We caught four Ling, two Snapper, two large sharks, six Spanish Mackerel in the 5-6 lb. range (which is massive for these fish), Grouper, and we released 20 small sharks in the 3 ft range.

Capt Brad on his morning trip caught 3 Reds, 2 TriggerFish, 2 Ling, Strawberry Grouper, and some Mangrove Snapper. On the afternoon trip they caught a 25 lb. Kingfish, 9 Redfish, one 39" Red, 1 Gag Grouper, several Mangrove Snapper, and 2 Lings.

TWO 40" REDFISH

My charter Monday with two great guys from New Mexico we caught two 40" bull reds plus four keeper reds, grouper, several nice Spanish Mackerel, Mangrove Snapper, and a Snowy Grouper. The Snowy Grouper was verified by the Parks and Wildlife since nobody knew what it was.

My son Capt. Brad also had a charter today and they brought in 9 reds, one was oversized.

Reds at the jetties

Lots of REDS at the jetties. The water is looking great rightnow it is clear with lots of debri washing up. There is a few large trout taken near the rocks.I watched a large school of TARPON swimming around Sat and Sun. Brad brought in 18 reds Sat afternoon .When you are on the school it is very fast action,when you are not it is tough .There is lots of Spanish Mackeral ,with Mangrove Snapper,Trigger fish ,Red Snapper ,and a few Pompano.I have not seen any King Mackeral nearshore since the storm.
The offshore bite has slowed since the storm.It will pick back up as time goes on.The best bait after the storm is ribbonfish dropped with a large egg sinker. Also YES we can still keep RED SNAPPER in state waters,just not in Federal waters.

6' TARPON

I forgot to mention Brad has been catching several Bull Reds over 40" .He also caught and released a 6' TARPON,just before the hurricane.
The water is really clear considering a hurricane came through,there is lots of trash and debris washing up .

Bull Reds at the Jetty

Friday the 19th went to Cedar Byou to see what hurricane Ike did .Nouthing has changed we could only go to 100 yards from the dunes ,very few fish there.Did manage to get lots of small reds at sundown bay,a 20" trout and a flounder.Got some nice oversized reds on a long reef.
Saturday the 20th Went to the jetties at Port A got 5 nice reds before the wind got too rough. Caught 2 nice spanish mackeral and a strawberry grouper. We went down the ship channel and got 9 big gafftop catfish.

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike has not hurt Rockport or Port Aransas ,The beaches have some erosion and lots of trash washed up.Bob Hall Pier got some damage but not too bad .The Horace Caldwell pier in Port Aransas was hurt ,but has been repaired .The hotels and condos are all open .Dolphin Docks in Port A has all ready started trips again.We hope and pray for the best for Galveston and Houston .The motels and condos there will be out for a year or two. I am not sure how South Padre has done after Hurricane Dolly I know they were hit hard too.