Spring Break Trip to Port Aransas, TX

We just got back from our spring break trip to Port Aransas, Texas. My family and I had a great time. The weather was nice mid 70's with 10mph wind partly cloudy most of the time. The beach was excellent as usual clear water warming to mid to high 60's. Tried out some surf fishing but no catches. My son and I did get to fish along the channel off 361 (Cemetary road) Click here for location just south of Morris Cummings Cut. We arrived just before noon and the fish bite was off. However we did observe many boats along the channel that had nice stringers of reds. We tried live shrimp on a popping cork, also tried bottom rigs and even broke out the johnson gold spoon, still no bites.  Oh well that's why it's called fishing and not catching. Here are a few pics from the trip, enjoy.

Best place to land Redfish in January

It's winter time again and the the fish are on their normal winter pattern and they are hanging in the usual spots. Most of the fish caught are in shallow water next to drop offs. Usually this time of the year they will stage in the deeper water at night and move up shallow when the sun warms the water. Just about any bait you want to throw has been working including soft plastics, but the most productive bait has been mullet. Trout fishing has also improved considerably while wade fishing the sharp breaks, mud/grass and scattered shell bottoms while throwing soft plastics. Topwaters have been productive when we have some strong incoming tides and nervous mullet. Live shrimp has been producing trout when fished under a popping cork over the reefs up in our northern territory. January at Oil Field Channels GPS 27' 46.52'LAT / 97' 8.22' LON have been an Excellent month for Speck's and Good for Red's check it out and let me know how it was please comment.

Fishing Trip March 2010

Port Aransas, Texas Fishing Trip 03-13-2010 

The fishing trip my son and I took last March to Port Aransas, Texas with my friend Capt. Scott Haberman was very productive. As you can see by the photos we did very well with the fish we caught. The weather was very sunny, temp about 74 degrees and a 5-10 mph wind. There were 4 of us on this trip, Scott ,Johnny, Aaron my son and I. We were on Scotts boat (the Flats Dragon) shallow drafting boat, fishing with light freshwater tackle spinning reels and using a popping cork with live shrimp. The bite was off for the first half of the day, water was leaving the flats but once the water started to return in the flats the bite was on. We were fishing other side of Redfish Bay east of lighthouse. The small cut we were in started producing rat reds (under 20 in length) for an hour or so, we must have caught 20 of them. Then my son Aaron caught a 22-3/4 keeper Red, then caught a 23" and them minutes later caught the largest of the day Red of 25-3/4 length. Right after Aarons big red I caught a 28" Speckled Trout. It was a great fish, so good I brought it back and got it mounted. If you want to have a great fishing trip look up Scott Haberman out of Holiday Beach Texas for your guide.