Nov 7 Friday
The wind was howling at 40 mph waves were 6 ' at the jettys.I had a really nice family from Hobbs N.M. Colten was the youngest with us he is 8 years old. The places to catch fish in that condition was very limited ,but we wanted to catch fish no matter what. Mangrove Snapper is what I targeted for them to let Colten catch a lot of fish. Tried several places and had a few good fish ,but not enough to really make a good trip .I did find some rocks on the Corpus Christie ship channel that held a tremendous amount of nice 2 lb. snappers. We kept 50 mangrove snapper and turned back 30 or so RED SNAPPER .We were fishing in 10 to 15 ft water with live and freash dead shrimp.Grouper and Gafftop catfish also were biting there as well.

10/30/08 TUNA TRIP

I went out with Dolphin Docks Thurs. morning for a 60 hour offshore tuna trip. We caught over 30 yellow fin tuna and over 200 black fin tuna. We also caught several grouper, several ling, and a 326 lb. Mako Shark. They were caught on yummies, topwaters, and a few on sardines. The black fin was caught on diamond jigs, knife jigs, and sardines. I caught two 60-70 lb. yellow fin tuna myself.

Boat For Sale

Any body interested in buying my 20' flatbottom ,cc, Guide boat? it would make a great Flounder boat or Duck boat .It has enough room in it you can dance in it. 140 hp Suzuki 4-stroke ,hydrolic jack plate,new hydrolic steering.This rig will scoot over damp oysters .Easy on fuel too. I once ran from Conn Brown to Baffin ,fished a tournament { almost won} and made it all the way back on 20 gallons of fuel. That is 50 miles one way!Total trip was probably 110 miles. If interested it will be at My Fair Mermaid ,96 Austin st. in Rockport.You can also call me at 361-523-9452 to see it.

fish for church fish fry

Went out today at 2;30 pm for Ed .He was needing 100 lbs. of fish for a church fish fry.We went in my boat to Port Aransas jetties .The reds were not biting,but the Spanish Macerel was.Caught 16 on gold spoons at the north jetty.Tried several versions of spoons but all they wanted was GOLD .It did not seem to matter if it was a Kastmaster or Johnson's spoon as long as it was GOLD.Ed did get broke off on a king probably as the fish made a really fast long run.
Went by the ferries and got 4 big gafftop no reds .Then went to Martin Midsteam got 4 nice trout on Berkly Gulp and 1 Mangrove Snapper.
Lots of Flounder boats out ,funny thing is you can clean up giging Flounder any time of the year as long as the water is clear.

Just Another day fishing

• Had a trip today with some nice people from Lubbock Tex. Caught 4 reds at the jetty 40",40",28",and 26". Ran offshore a little ways and had 8 spanish mackerel, two kings. A ling over 40"broke off on 60 lb. line and bent several hooks. All in all, we had a great time. We had a 100 qt cooler full of fish and still could not get a 40" red in it on the way back.

Finally fishing again

Finally got back to fishing .Found a bunch of small reds and trout on a reef no keepers .Went to a place on the ICW and got into small trout ,some reds ,whiting and ,sand trout .Finally wound up with 10 reds a dozen sand trout and some whiting .Still had a great day fishing .

Lost Flipper

Saturday,what a day.We returned to the jetty this morning about 11:00am. Fished for a little while lost several nice fish and watched a group of boats try to save a sinking boat. on the other jetty.The Coast guard was there and Towboat U.S.getting the boat saved .
I talked to my son Brad who was captain on the Flipper bay boat,they had 15 reds ,several spanish mackeral ,and big Mangrove snapper.They were heading in and went out of my site back into the channel.I heard on the radio something about the Flipper to the Coast Guard and I thought he was helping relay information about the other boat in distress.
When I realized he needed help, I pulled up anchor and got over there as soon as I could get there.When I finally arrived, the boat was on it's side and sinking,the coast guard was watching it sink .Everybody on board was on the C.G. boat and not even wet.Brad did a great job of trying to save the boat and a great job of getting the coast guard there quickly We tried to tie onto the boat and had it coming into the current ,the boat rose about half way out of the water as I was towing it. Then some stupid people in a large boat ran past us causing a big wake which broke the tow rope .
I scrambled to retie it agian ,but the boat was lower in the water this time and sinking fast .Got it retied and tried to pull it agian but the current was just too much.I was running with the current trying toget it pull forward ,and the rope broke again .Swung around and doubled the rope lost sight of it as I was tying knots .Only to not find it again.