Category Archives: Fishing Techniques

Port O’Connor 5/17/12

Fish Catching Travel 5/18/12 My marginal luck continues.  My friend Chris and I headed to Port O’Connor Wednesday morning for some trout fishing.  Putting in at Froggie’s, we made a quick stop in Barroom Bay on a small reef.  One hit on a topwater was more »

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Fayette County Lake

Fish Catching Travel 5/9/2012 There is a gentleman, fishytx on the Austin bass fishing board, that has been reporting great fishing on Fayette County Lake.  Some days he has caught over 100 bass a day.  Now my brother and I more »

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Port O’Connor – A couple of interesting days. 4/17 -18.

Day 1 – Tuesday My brother Jeff had a chance to come for a couple of days,  so off to the gulf we went.  It turned out to be an interesting trip with several surprises. Day 1 we got to more »

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Indianola and Powderhorn Lake – early morning wade. 4/8/2012.

I am not really that big on fishing the weekends, especially the holidays.  I prefer to let the folks have them who can’t fish during the week, 1 less truck and trailer at the ramp adding to the confusion.  But more »

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Port O’Connor, Texas. Popping Cork and Wade Fishing.

Wednesday 4/4/2012 I was lucky enough to get to fish 2 days in POC this Wednesday and Thursday.  Thursday I headed out by myself with the intention of catching a few redfish and then some trout.  The day dawned calm, and more »

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Fayette County – another good day to be fishing.

My brother Jeff called Tuesday night and asked if I wanted to meet him at Fayette County Lake the next morning.  Of course I said yes.  For those of you that do not know, Fayette is a power plant lake more »

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Coleto Creek – a good bass fishing report and a new method for me.

I got the chance to fish with Aaron again today, this time on Coleto Creek.  He likes to hit it early like I do, so we met at the ramp at daylight, and were the first ones to hit the more »

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Amistad – nothing like a little wind to make a bass fishing trip fun.

First of all I told you all that I would try to blog from Amistad this week.  Of course I was fooling myself.  We were up at dawn and back at dark.  Except for one afternoon, we were the first more »

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