Texas Saltwater Fishing Guide

Light-Tackle King Mackerel Techniques It's summer and the only thing missing as you watch a fleet of small skiffs and bay boats ply through the relative safety of the jetties and into the deep-blue is Wagner's Flight of the Valkyrie and Lieutenant Colonel...

SPF Somewhat Explained here are a many misconceptions surrounding the three little letters we trust to protect our skin from the harmful UV rays that pound our skin while we fish, surf, hunt, or simply enjoy the outdoors. The SPF number does not correspond to a...

Toledo Bend — August 30, 2010 Can you say fresh water!!!! All I can say is the Lower Laguna Madre looks and tastes like Toledo Bend. No time can I and all that I have spoken with, remember the LLM as fresh as it has been. With the flood way running 1 ½ months...

The Fish Gods Shined on Us Again. — May 24, 2011 What a month!!!! Our fishing continues to get better and better. WHAT WILL NEXT YEAR BE LIKE? 10 years ago maybe!!!!!!A summary of last month can only be summed up as more and more big trout on TOP WATERS, with...

March 15, 2006 — Quit Teasing! Finally get to feel the bottom!  After the winter doldrums and stinky waders, spent most of the week wet wading the shallow stuff.  With temperatures flirting with 100 degrees and a number of days in the mid nineties, the water...

April 10, 2005 — Please Send Water!!!!!!! With tides remaining more than 1 foot low we are still fighting a losing battle for clear water. Winds from the north at 30 then from the south at 30 they continue to plague us with super dirty water. What little brown...

May 29, 2003 — Nutter Butter Cookies, Chips Ahoy and Ye Haw had the pleasure to fish a friend and his six-year-old son yesterday. It’s amazing how one is put in their place when conditions are right and you can stand back and see the big picture. More about this...

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...

August 8, 2005 — WOW, WHAT A WEEK After a week of none stop running it was nice to rest today. I must say last week I had the pleasure to fish TWO different groups of father and YOUNG SONS!!!! Ages were 6 to 13 but that did not stop them from hard-core fishing....

Re: Happy “B” Day Kid. Happy Birthday right back at ya!  Never met a fellow Gemini I did not like….well except for that one girl a few years ago ;D Look forward to seeing you soon! POONS are coming

Photo Validity!!!!!!!!!!!! Good Questions!!! Response to an email sent to us doubting the validity of this past winters trophy trout catches. Thanks for the heads up, I feel your e-mail was actually quite on time. If you get down here feel free to stop by! Oh!  By the...

Thanks Capt Bruce Capt, Bruce and I borrowed Capt. Brandon's boat for a couple of days scouting and a little fishing 4/27-28. Learned somenew areas and caught my best trout to date, 29 1/4″, 8 1/4 lbs. Also fished in Feb and did very well. Great spring....

You Know Sergio!? — June 11, 2007 The past week was a shortish, longish week.  Greatish, poorish fishing.  Consistently inconsistent yet inconsistently consistent.  In a nutshell, the week was a mixed bag of fishing conditions and weather conditions.  Trout...

ice? Wheres the cheapest ice in or around Pt. Mansfield???Thanks.Coming from San Antonio..

PUCKER FACTOR…HIGH — August 6, 2007 As I write this, the adrenal glands are pumping, eyes are dilating, and my heart is pounding.  After of month of getting life insurances, accidental death and dismemberment policies renewed, and good old fashioned blood...

Re: First Timer Goes to Port Mansfield Putawaywet's Advice is spot on. I always recommend newbies to learn the East Cut and the North Shoreline first.  Fewer obstacles, more traffic (for breakdowns and possible trouble), and a lot easier to learn, not to mention...

New Member Hi, I'm new to this board but not to fishing. I've fished Mansfield for about 15 yrs now. I usually fish the land cut around Gladys hole and at times the east cut. I hope to post useful info for everyone intersted. I also post up on...

Re: West Shoreline Pretty clean going north.  Running the east facing sout spoils still has a few hiding obstructions.

New Fly Record Red Snapper-Pending Certification Pending approval by the state the new, fly caught, record Red Snapper will be 11lbs 11oz caught by myself last Monday morning out of Port Mansfield. The bigger fish were suspending off the structure so the Lowrance 111...

ENHS… 🙂 …. Cpt. Brandon, I read on that fishing report that you teach at Edinburg North. Well I graduated from there 2004. 😉 Mr. Medrano was my chemistry teacher. Is he still there ?