High Mountain Trout

Here's some shots that my brother, Keith, sent me yesterday. He had a couple days off of the boat and hiked up into the Spanish Pyrenees mountains. They were headed for a summit when they came across this high mountain lake. The lake was full of these little brown trout & he caught several of them on a little minnow lure. How do you say honeyhole in Spanish?

Matagorda Redfish

The rod building circle was completed when Cade emailed me this pic of a nice redfish he caught on his "Redfish Rod" in Matagorda bay. To see more on this rod, click here:
http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=209703&highlight=redfish

Congrats Cade!

Lake Georgetown - club tournament - 9/19

I recently joined the Big Sandy Creek bass club, and fished my second tournament with them on sunday. Lake Georgetown was up quite a bit, and the bite was pretty tough. We started off catching fish early, but after the sun came up, it started to shut down on us. I ended up with 3 keepers. It was a fun day on the water, and a fun lake to fish. There's lots of cover right now with the water so high. Unfortunately, the big fish don't seem to be hanging in the shallow cover. The highlight of the day was when we got back to the weigh in and I saw that Bryan Cotter caught a giant on a Coastal Bend rod!! This 25" 9+lb fish was caught in about 20ft on a finesse worm! Congrats to Bryan on the tournament win and a great fish!!

Ringtailed Cat

I was fishing on Lake Georgetown on saturday afternoon and saw a ringtailed cat! These are pretty rare and actually seeing one is very rare. It was right before dark and it was hanging out on the rocks on the dam... Never know what you're gonna see while out on the water! It was too dark to get a pic of it, but this is what it looked like...

RIP - MAGNUM

This Labor Day weekend was a tough one. On sunday morning, our boxer, Magnum, suddenly passed away. He went peacfully and quickly and didn't appear to be in pain. Magnum was definitely a one in a million type of dog. He had a ton of personality and everyone who knew him fell in love with him. He will forever be remembered as "the George Clooney of dogs". He was very special to us and will be deeply missed. He got a prime burial spot next to Lake LBJ, so it'll be good memories of him when we're out there. Rest in Peace buddy!!!

Lake LBJ - Labor Day weekend

Here's a bass I caught while fishing with Dad on Labor Day. This one wasn't nearly as big as the 5lb'er he caught the day before, but I "conveniently" forgot to bring the camera on that trip. This one was caught on a shad colored popper.

TTZ Tuesday night big bass rollover tourney! In the $$!!

After fishing a few tuesday night tournaments and finishing pretty close to the money, Bryan and I finally cashed in on saturday!! This tournament was to fish for the big bass rollover money for the weekly tuesday night tournament on Travis. Bryan and I fished the mid lake area and caught fish on 8" worms, C-rigs, crankbaits, jigs, poppers, and frogs... it was a little bit of everything, but Bryan was sticking to the frog and got a couple key bites that barely squeaked us into third place and $470. We edged out the 4th place team by 1/100th of a pound!! The full results are here:

http://ttz1.com/results/ttz-travis-sat-rollover-82810/