12 Dec 2007

My good friend Chirs is in town from Tennessee and we decided to spend a few hours bending rods while he's here. It took us some time to finally sync our schedules and find the time to go, but we did it. We left out of 17th street at 1600 and fished until around 1815. The Three Mile Bridge is currently LOADED with nice White Trout and we capitalized on it. During the beautiful sunset we caught around 30 fish and had a great time telling each other stories of the times since we last saw each other.

11 Dec 2007

I called my sister to see if she wanted to fish this afternoon, and she jumped at the opportunity. We caught 4 reds, 3 slot fish and one just over. Not bad for the whopping hour and a half we fished(from dock to dock). This was Kappie's best fish.

09 Dec 2007

My wife, son and I headed out for a morning of family fishing this morning. We were on the search for redfish ...and we found them! A great time was had by all. Here are some of our highlights.

17 Nov 2007

Well my regulars Ben and Jim are back again for another, laugh a minute, fishing trip. 0630 at Galvez and we're off to catch some white trout. Once on location the catching began. We were looking for smaller fish to use for bait, and finding them.

A dozen trout in the well and a few more for the frying pan into the day and my phone rings. It's my friend Mike, who tells me about a school of reds moving down the beach, just a short run away. We quickly pick up and haul over there just in time to get set up on the school, they were moving FAST. With seconds to go before the school over-took us we fired or lures into them. Ben immediately hooks up, then as quickly as they came, they were gone. Ben's fish makes a blistering run while Jim and I are dumbfounded that we only hooked one fish out of a school of 50 or better. As we loudly voice our opinion of the situation, Ben's line goes slack! All of those fish, swimming away, and three fishermen standing there in awe at the run of misfortune.

We decide to head for the Pass, trying to chase down the good luck. Thankfully we found bucket-fulls of luck in the Pass. The first drop of our first drift turned into a double hook-up for both Ben and Jim.

This is the standard expression on every trip with these guys!!!

Nearly every subsequent drift produced fish of one description or another. We even completed a triple (2 reds and a Drum; wish I could have been in the picture). Our live-well of shrimp went dry and the Reds continued to eat the small, live, White Trout we had to offer.

We caught a total of 9 Redfish (2 in the slot), 2 Black Drum, a couple of catfish and a small School Master Snapper.

Thanks Ben and Jim, I'll see you guys at New Years.

16 Nov 2007

I met Mr. Beck, his daughter, Donna, and her boyfriend, Mike at 1600 for a sunset/ early evening trip. It was straight for the Pass to find the redfish.

We started drifting and within 10 minutes Donna was hooked up. She was so excited; and so was her Dad.


I know seeing the look on her face was the whole reason he wanted to take her.

The rest of our drifts were unproductive so we settled onto the anchor to soak some baits. Forty five minutes on anchor was worth no more than 2 catfish; time to move. The Reds didn't want to cooperate, and Mike wanted Donna to try some lure fishing, so off to the Trout hole. As has been usual (fortunately) when we pulled up the fish started biting...and didn't stop until we left. 50 or more white trout fell victim to our offerings over the hour we fished there.

By 1930 it had gotten plenty enough cold for us and we packed it in and headed for home.

Thanks again, Mr. Beck, Donna, and Mike, I hope we get to do it again soon.

Capt. Josh

11 Nov 2007 Reds/ King

Most of last nights crew (Me, Dad, Roby, and Scoot) along with Cam, got up this morning for a little rod and reel fishing. We met at 0700, bound for the White Trout Hole.

Once we got set and started fishing, the catching began. We really just wanted enough Trout to use for King bait, so we were keeping only the smaller ones for bait (and a few of the biggest ones for lunch). In all I guess we kept 12-15 out of the 30 or so we caught. After 45 min of the white trout we were ready to try our luck for the Reds and Kings.

We got in the gulf and found it fishable, barely. East-southeast winds at 15 kts and about a 2-3ft swell. We kept the run short (around a mile) and set out two Trout to find us some bigger fish. 30 min pass and the rod on the down-rigger starts screaming. Roby grabs it...and the second rod sounds into chorus. Cam gets the second fish and the fight begins.


Roby is 5 min in to his battle and the line goes slack, he reels in to find a single solitary redfish scale on one of his hooks! You can't catch them all. Cam is still doing an outstanding job on his fish, and 10 more minutes pass. Dad looks at me and says, "Most kids his age would've given up five minutes ago!" Yeah well...not this kid. A solid 20 min into the fight we finally get a look at Cam's fish, a nice king. I guess seeing that fish really motivated Cam and in a few more minutes we had him in the boat.


Time to reset. Minutes later both rods again sound in unison. Scoot's up this time, and Roby picks up the other rod for a little retribution. This time the fish stay attached and we land two BIG Redfish.



Reset again and the wait ensues...30 minutes pass...45...60... not a bite?!?!? The sea state continues to degrade and we decide to call it a day/morning, whatever. Back to the ramp by 1115, load the boat and return to the parent's house to clean the fish (last nights and today's).


Thanks, guys, for a great morning, I'm glad we could do it.

10 Nov 2007 Flounder

Met up with my Dad, Uncle Roby, Dad's good friend Rodney, and Scoot at 1700 at Dad's house. To the ramp and underway by 1715; I got in the boat with Rodney and everyone else got in dads boat. We ran straight to Pickens Beach and split up.


Rodney and I found a nice stretch of beach without any competition and began the hunt! It was maybe 50 yards down that we found our first fish. We worked Pickens for the next 2 1/2 hours, producing fish every 15-20 min. Final tally was 16 between Rodney and I. We had 4 really nice fish, one of which, our biggest of the night, was around 6lbs.

Dad, Roby and Scoot also had success with a total of seven fish for their efforts. All in all a great night 23 fish between 5 fishermen, and home by 2100.