Texas Saltwater Fishing Guide

Any News on Dredging? Hello!  I was wondering if there has been any more news related to getting the dredging done at the jetties and the mouth of the harbor?  Are boats still able to safely make it in and out the jetties to offshore?

Re: Any News on Dredging? I will be giving a complete update in the next couple of days.  More in depth than you may want.  However, now with the trout issued hopefully solved, I will be...

Thanks for the Kudos!!! -- April 23, 2007 I really want to take this opportunity to thank all of you that have taken the tie to call and congratulate me on the Shallow Water Anger article.  All of your thoughts and support mean the world to me!So, with the thanks out...

Re: Official Word on East Cut Dredging Grills ;DAll great ideas and already in the works.  However, expect me to be hitting you up and getting the word out.  My Texas Waters Foundation has been 501c3'ed and we will start taking donations, memberships, and gifts...

May 8, 2005 -- WIND, WIND, BUT!!! We Have Water!!!!! We found the fish along the edge of the I.C.W. in about 5 to 6 foot of water. The trout are feeding on small baitfish and shrimp, the birds pinpointed them for us. If you notice a current cast up current and let...

May 18, 2003 -- Wind, Wind and Reds After almost three weeks of 20 M.P.H. plus winds the pattern may have changed today. We awoke this morning with Old Glory not standing straight out like it was starched. Hopefully we can now get into our regular wind patterns. ...

Re: Pop Gets Wake Up Call! Brandon;Tell your Dad that I am glad the problem was solved with stents. I had a triple by pass in 1984 and a stent in 2004. My advise to your Dad, from experience, do what the Doc says. He will feel better, have more energy and want to do...

July 4, 2005 -- Reality After a week of what one could only describe as world class we were dealt a dose of Reality. Coupled with returning high winds and the forth of July crowds our fishing tanked compared to the past few weeks. We took our annual Fourth of July...

May 8,2004 -- Storms, Wind and Lots of Rain The past two weekends have kept all of us on the water, on our toes. Saturday May 1 we had 50 plus M.P.H. winds and heavy rains. Saturday May 8 dealt us 3 plus inches of rain. Despite these adverse weather conditions we have...

September 29, 2003 -- North, South, East and West The last two weeks we have had winds from every direction, along with RAIN, RAIN and some more rain. The rain along with fall high tides, is keeping the bay one-foot and more above normal. A lot of our trout fishing is...

August 15-22, 2001 -- Winds and HIGH Tides As we had higher than normal summer time winds our snapper trips were somewhat bumpy. But with our targeting snapper less than 3 miles offshore the bone jarring trip out just is not the case. Limits of snapper with kings as...

July 10, 2005 -- All-Star Break Well, it's Monday morning, Lance Armstrong is taking a well deserved break from the tour and MLB is stretching out a few days over the All-star break.  However, here in old Port Mansfield, the action is just winding back up for the...

War & Peace -- April 11, 2007 Man, what can transpire in 3 weeks!  Critics say it took Tolstoy 4 years to write his epic novel, regarded as one of the worlds all time greatest reads.  I feel like we have lived all four of those years and the plot twists within the...

September 30, 2004 -- DEEP , DEEP and DEEPERRRR!!! Our fall tides coupled with the storms going into Florida had our bay system 1 to 2 feet above normal. Prior to the high water our fishing could only be rated EXCELLENT! The additional high tides have scattered our...

June 30, 2003 -- Twenty One Feet of Reds Sorry for the delay in keeping our fishing reports page up to date, but June was a very trying month with the loss of my Mother and Shirley’s Mom’s broken hip one week later. This coupled with a busy schedule left precious...

August 5, 2002 -- Field Testing, T.V. Shows and Good Friends Get-A-Way Adventures Lodge hosted the filming crew from Midwest Outdoors, along with the Shakespeare and Pflueger Staff and a number of outdoor writers. As the fish gods shined on us all involved experienced...

August 22, 2005 -- Birthday Week Well this old guide celebrated another birthday on the water. ONE/HALF HUNDRED-PLUS! I had the pleasure to fish some old friends, I did a lot of business with during my previous career. I think we spent more time talking about mutual...

July 19, 2005 -- Hurricanes!!!!!!!! Sorry for the delay in posting our weekly report. We have been a tad bit busy getting ready for a visit from Emily! As I write this report all projections have the storm going into Northern Mexico south of us. We are to get 70 plus...

Happy "B" Day Kid. Happy birthday son. Love Dad

September 05, 2006 -- Up For Air? Big Breathe!  That's much better.  We took a well deserved long Labor Day weekend off to catch up with old correspondences, boat repairs, body repairs (to ourselves), and generally catch up with Lodge business and maintenance. ...

Two fists of Dog Food & Koi Pond? -- May 28th, 2007 That’s right; I could not find fish with two fists of dog food in a koi pond!  I used top water, black & chrome, red & white, bone, yellow, pink; I used Gulp! New penny, lime tiger, chartreuse, glow shrimp, molting,...