WINDY DAY FISHING

11-12-2010--We left from Kontiki Beach Resorts this morning and punched our way through the strong headwinds to the San Jose shoreline. I took bait for trout, reds and black drum to ensure success. I had to get shrimp at one place and croaker and perch at another. We fished northern Aransas Bay and limited my two clients on Black drum and reds in additon to catching 12 nice trout. When they decided to call it a day we were catching trout with regularity. This fall fishing is turning out to be the best fishing we've had in years. I expect our coming winter fishing to be fantastic.

A WIFE'S ACCOUNT

Today's fishing report is being written by me, Ron's wife. Today Ron took me fishing. I'm a fair weather fisherman, and today was a beautiful day - sunny and in the mid 70's. Ron has been doing a lot of hunting and was scouting for fish to prepare for customers. He'd gone to San Antonio Bay yesterday and limited on trout and was going to try different areas of San Antonio Bay again today. The first placed we stopped was teeming with trout. The trout would hit as soon as my shrimp hit the water. The only problem was, they were a half inch to an inch under the legal limit. Tried a couple of more places with little luck. Then Ron decided to try for Reds and Black Drum. I caught my limit of large keeper drum and then kept on catching and releasing. Then the redfish started hitting. Caught a couple of keepers and then the big one hit and I caught my first oversized red. Quite exciting! He really made the reel sing until I finally tired him out enough to bring him in.

REDS AND MORE REDS

10-28-2010--My two guests drove down from San Antonio today and met me at 2:30 PM. We launched at the St Charles boat ramp in heavy seas churned up by 30+ MPH winds. No other boat trailers were at the parking lot and we saw no other fishermen all afternoon. The tide was falling fast and had already fallen over a foot from yesterday. My plan was to find a sheltered place with moving water to fish. The first place we tried the water was so low we couldn't get the boat in to where the fish were. The wind was too strong to cross the open bay so we worked our way around protected shorelines to get to a slough where the water was draining from back lakes. Once in the slough we could see three groups of birds working over fish and coming our way. The birds were directly over feeding redfish busting bait out of the water. Redfish in groups of 20 to 50 were constantly coming out of the back lake past us. My guests had informed me ahead of time that they didn't want to keep any fish. We had 2 fish on at once several times. When we quit at 6:30 the count was 33 redfish caught and released.

REDFISH ON THE HALFSHELL

9-28-2010--It took all day but my two fishermen ended up with their limits of redfish and two trout. We started in Redfish bay. The action was fast but the fish were all short on one end. After catching several of these undersized fish we decided to move. We went to a location next to where another guide and his friend had just caught six redfish but by the time we got there the early morning bite had ended. We moved several times during the next 4 hours to both anchor up and drift but neither worked. The fish started biting again a little after noon. I think we could have caught some trout but we really only fished for reds. I suspect the trout also bit early and after lunch. Tides have fallen several inches the last two days. The red rainwater has been pouring out of back lakes and bays such as Copano and St. Charles.

TROUT ARE BACK

9-17-2019--Trout had been hard to find in our area until today. Today we caught 2 nice stringers of trout and reds between 10 and 12 AM. To begin the day my half of a two boat trip was cancelled because the fishermen celebrated too much the night before. I took my boat out of the water and returned the the bait stand with the live shrimp I had intended to use for black drum and redfish. I traded the shrimp in for some croaker and and set out to look for trout in Copano. I made two wades on reefs and one on the shoreline but only caught two hardheads. About 9:30 AM I was putting the boat on the trailer to move to St. Charles bay an old friend happened to show up. After I told him my experience with Copano he decided not to fish there. He joined me for the trip to St. Charles. Once in the water I saw some pelicans working just outside St. Charles in Aransas Bay. We eased in and put the power pole down. After wading only about 50 yards from the boat we started gettng bites. The fish were nice size trout and mid-slot size redfish. We caught two nice stringers with reds and trout mixed before a rainstorm hit.

REDFISH ON PERCH

9-5-2010--Three guests limited with 9 redfish today. With north wlnds blowing 15 to 20 we decided to fish redfish bay. We drifted with piggy perch. The few trout we caught were all undersized but the redfish were good slot fish. It was good to get a limit of something after yesterday's mediocre day. Yesterday, we fished San Antonio bay with a group of four who were connected with todays group but only caught a few trout and a few black drum along with countless hardheads, gaftop and undersized fish. I'm off tomorrow but rain is in the forecast anyway.

CALM SURF

8-17-2010--Started the day early in the surf. Fishing was good but a little slower due to the lack of moving water and a west wind that made it more difficult to anchor properly. My two fishermen, one of whom is a thirteen year old boy, limited on trout at about 11 AM. By then they had also caught a 28 inch red and 2 sharks. We stopped at two oil platforms on the way in to look for Ling but found none.
I had the same two fishermen yesterday but we started fishing in the bay because the waves in the surf were too high for us to venture beyond the jetties. We caught 5 trout very early but then all action stopped. The wind had decreased by then so after checking the off shore wave height on the internet we decided to make a run to the surf. We had an early lunch in town and ran out to the surf to find conditions near perfect. Calm water and a fairly strong falling tide. We picked up the extra 15 fish needed for their limits in little over an hour.