LOTS OF TROUT

7-27-2010--Had a family of four today. We tried to go out at 7 AM but the rain and lightening kept us from launching. We finally got on the water just before noon. At 2:30 PM we had 34 speckled trout, 28 sand trout and one whiting when a rainstorm drove us back to the dock. The rains cleared in less than an hour and we went for redfish. The group was able to add 4 nice redfish to the bag before we ran out of tlme.

RAGS TO RICHES

7-24-2010--Saturday my group of three easily caught 30 nice speckled trout, 21 sand trout and one snapper in Corpus Christi bay. The day was a boon to my ego since we had only caught undersized fish the day before. That day, Friday, we had planned to fish Corpus Christi bay but I changed the plan due to high winds and we fished out of St. Charles. Earlier in the week we had 2 great days of catching speckled trout while running from the storms. We had to keep an eye on the clouds all the time we were out. When a rainstorm would get close we would run in to the dock for a half hour or so and then go back to fishing when the rain cleared and lightning stopped. We have more rain forecast for this week but it looks like we'll get to fish most of the time.

HIGH WATER FISHING

7-15-2010-Finally got a day off with time to catch up on things including fishing reports. Until yesterday the tides had remained very high since Alex. After Alex we had a tropical depression so the tides just stayed high. Yesterday they fell out with a vengenance and the winds laid. We are now back to normal fishing. With the high winds and high water fish have not been easy to find the last few days. It seemed they moved every day. If you found them one day the one thing you could be sure of the next day was that you should look somewhere else. We've been catching some mixed bags of trout, redfish and black drum. One day right after heavy rain the trout only wanted live shrimp but all other days they preferred croaker. Black drum only want shrimp while the redfish have been taken on croaker, cut bait and shrimp. Monday of this week the Coastal Bend Guides Association had it's annual kids fish day for children from Driscoll Childrens hospital undergoing chemotherpy. We take the children fishing each summer for free. It's always a good time for them and it makes us feel good to see how mujch we're appreciated.

GRAND SLAM

7-4-2010--Had a father and 2 sons today for 4 hours. They caught 6 redfish, 3 trout (including a 24 incher), 3 black drum and a 21 inch flounder. All the bites came on live shrimp and cut skip jack.

HIGH WATER FISH

7-3-2010--Hurricane Alex has passed but the high water remains. Early this morning the water was about a foot or more high and it rose another 3 inches while we fished. I had two people who were staying in Port Aransas so I picked them up there and headed to a place where we caught fish in similar high water conditions about 5 years ago. We limited on Redfish and were only one short from a limit of black drum. No trout but we really didn't fish for trout. I think the high water has probably brought more trout into the bays so hopefully, trout fishing will be even better in days to come.