Slow fishing

Right now it is hard to catch fish the water temp is returning to 55 deg. yesterday.Tried to run about 15 miles from Port A to some state water rigs and the red snapper were there but not biting.I was not on a paid trip just trying out some places to see if fish were present.The water is starting to clear from the recent heavy rains ,so this should start to pickup in a few weeks. I have not seen or heard of anything biting since Christmas except a few sheep's head. I fished in the bays a little with dead shrimp and Berkly gulp ,only caught a few spotted trout undersized witting ,perch sand trout and a few hard heads.
There is no live shrimp anywhere that Brad or I have found.Perch and if you are really lucky you might get some mud minnows for live bait right now.
The water clarity is getting better since the rain ,and the black drum should be showing up in big numbers soon.

Huge Trout

The south jetty is producing huge trout right now,several over 30" .The bad thing is you only get to keep one fish because they are all over 25" . Sheep's head are biting anywhere there is rocks. The flounder are slowing down a bit,but still catching a few.

45" red drum

Went out today about 10;oo am . Tried several places with very little success .Finally found some huge mangrove snapper by the navel station .caught about 15 using mud minnows ,small perch ,and shrimp. found 7 flounder at the Fina Docks,only 3 were keeper's. Got a 45" red there too.My scales only go to 30 lbs. so I do not know how much it weighed.

Flounder

Went out Thursday just fishing ,after a party that did not show up.Had to use some of the 58,00 in live bait, Caught 4 keeper flounder.black drum and 5 keeper sheep's head near the north jetty.
Went out today same place got 1 flounder lost several nice ones .To catch a flounder wait as long as you can before setting the hook.Got a pompano and some sheep's head on the south jetty.Hooked 3 small tarpon on the north jetty.Found small trout and small red fish in the ICW by Arkansas Pass.

cold front reds

Went out today after a cold front.North winds 20- 25 in the morning and light outgoing tide. Tried the south jetty on the south side .Did not catch any thing there .then went to Martin Midstream and got a really nice flounder hooked several others but lost them ,broke one fish off there.Fished the Fina docks broke three off while the rods were in the holders.Got a 27" red there several mangroves and silver trout and black drum .Went to Allans bite nothing at all.Fished Estes flats got some small trout and 1 small red.'Found some small trout in the ICW between Rockport and Aransas Pass,got a 22" red too.

40" reds

Today we went out and fished the jettys the wind was light from the north.Caught 3 reds 40". We also got several huge sand trout ,black drum, and mangrove snapper. The bays are really doing good right now after the rain.

Bachelor Party

Saturday I had 4 members of a bachelor party including the groom.That was a lot of fun .They wanted to catch big fish so we went where I had been catching Sharks and lane snapper .We caught a bunch of lane ,4 large Spanish mackerel.and tried to catch a large shark.It is called fishing and not catching for a reason, the sharks had apparently left.We came back in because some were not feeling well after partying the night before.We fished the jetties on the way in where we lost several big fish before we got a 34" red. Sopped for an hour to let them rest and grab a bite to eat.Started at the Fina docks got lots of mangrove snapper one big flounder croakier ,and got some small reds n trout in Shamrock. Had great day with a bunch of great guys.Note to the groom ;The secret of a happy marriage is no matter what she says the answer is always YES DEAR .