Huge Triple Tail

Keith shot this blog-worthy triple tail today offshore of SPI. It was 28" and he shot it with no reel or float line. Nice one bro!

Aussie boys on Travis

This morning we set up a 4 boat guide trip for the Australian and Thailand fishing team. They are in town to compete in the Hobie World Championship kayak tournament on Lake Bastrop and Fayette. We hit Lake Travis to get them a feel for how the local fish are biting. We started off early throwing poppers over shallow ledges. The topwater bite was working good early, then we went to lipless cranks and shaky head worms on docks and brush piles. We ended the morning with about 20-25 fish. I was impressed with these guys skills. They were dead on with their casting, and I'm looking forward to seeing them do well in the tournament!!

Here's Justin Dingwall with a nice Lake Travis Guadalupe bass:

This is Tim Maas with a largemouth he caught on a dock walkway with a shaky head power worm:

Adrian Baguley of the Thailand team with a nice largemouth that ate a Rapala popper:

Fun morning of fishing, boys!!!

Port Isabel 10/21 - First Fishing Trip!!

We made a quick trip to the RGV this weekend and hit up Port Isabel & the ship channel on Sunday. Keith and I started the day early looking for a snook bite, and found them stacked up and eating until about 8:00am. We landed three, but we hooked up on several, and missed a few more confirmed snook bites. We also had a couple opportunities to sight cast to 30"+ snook. Unfortunately, I left my flipping stick at home, so I lost a good one that I couldn't slow down with light tackle. We also caught about 8 nice mangrove snapper and lots of crevalle and ladyfish. 

We headed in at about 9:30 for some breakfast, and to meet up with the afternoon crew. Rachel came down with Jeremiah, Noah, Jeff, Serena, and my mom. We loaded up with Transformers and Spiderman fishing rods, got live shrimp and hit up a couple honeyholes in the PI area. The boys had a blast and we caught mangrove snapper, jacks, piggy perch, ladyfish, trout, croaker, and a couple of nice flounder. After getting outgunned with the Transformers rods by big snapper, they switched to the big rods and muscled up! 

Not a bad haul for a first fishing trip!! We all had fun watching the boys reel 'em in & I can't wait to do it again. 

Wednesday Night Finale

I fished the last TTZ Wednesday night tournament of the season with Trey Epich and we took 3rd place out of 25 teams for $140. We caught most of our fish on jigs after dark. It was a close finish, as all top 3 bags were within ounces.

Chandeleurs Redfish

Stephen Gustafson did some damage with his LSU rod again! He sent me this pic of a 40" redfish that he caught at the Chandeleur Islands in Mississippi. Nice catch!!!!

Redfish Rod Strikes Again!!

Cade Smith sent me this pic of Callen with his first redfish!!! The redfish rod is still doing damage! Congrats Callen! I've got a feelin' that this kid's going to be a heck of a fisherman!

Decker Win

I fished the club tournament at Decker today with Tommy Tomlin. We won it using topwater frogs and spinnerbaits. I had just over 20lbs, and Tommy had over 17. We caught alot of fish and almost all of them came on topwater. Fun morning! That's 3 wins in a row in the club tournaments... Choke Canyon is next!