FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Shoedog likes his hunting and a buddy of his has a lease with lots of hogs.  He hunted it a couple of times before and finally killed a nice hog.

Shoedog with his first hog, and it is a good one.

Way to go dude.  How about making a bunch of barbeque for Canada?  Just a thought.  They also fished a pond on the lease and Shoedog said they loved that Whopper Plopper.

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And it is always good to hear from Austin Aaron.

Doug,

It’s been awhile since I’ve had a report to pass along.  I’ve had a hard time getting out on the water lately.  All your fish pics finally broke me so I snuck away for a morning in the kayak this weekend in POC.  It was a great day on the water – 20+ reds and a mixed bag of other fish.  I was fishing alone so nothing but a dead fish pic to send along.  Thanks for being part of the inspiration to make me get up at 2:30AM to drive down from Austin to hit the water at first light.

I also forgot to tell you about some bowfishing I did down on Coleto last month.  Took over 20 gar and 25 tilipia in a couple hours.  Shot that bow until I couldn’t shoot anymore!  The tilapia were so thick that I managed to skewer a couple doubles.  I attached a pic of one of the larger gar (50″ – I’m 6’4″ for perspective). The big ones put up a respectable fight.

Aaron

Wow, that is what I call a good string of fish, or supper!  And something you said about getting up at 2:30 to drive down here to fish struck me.  It is often that simple, how bad do you want it?  It is so easy to make excuses, ask me, I can fish whenever I want, and it still happens.  As I always say put on your big boy pants and get it done.

And good job on the bowfishing.  There are more tilapia than I have ever seen this year.  They have been up for 2 months now, and they are still out there shallow.  Every spring I tell folks, if you are a bow hunter come to Coleto.  And plus, they are actually good to eat.  So thanks for the report and keeping in touch.  Will be looking forward to a report from the river where you caught all those nice bass last year.

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I bumped into Frank, the director of the Victoria Academy, and as always he had a couple of fresh fishing reports to share.  He has been fishing the bay and the surf.  He reports the croaker bite is on and they limited the other day by 8:30 on reds and trout in the surf.  He is a big offshore fisherman and showed me a marlin caught out of POC last week that was in the 750lb. range.  Apparently there is a big temp break offshore and there have been several marlin caught lately. Our warm winter may account for the early croaker and offshore bite.  I love spring.

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By time you read this the Shoedog and I will be thrashing away on Fayette County.  It has been closed for several weeks and finally re-opened this weekend.  I have not been there for quite a while and am really looking forward to fishing.   We have always had great luck there as it fishes perfect for our style, which is using that jerkbait.  Anytime you have fish positioned in that 10″ range a jerkbait can be deadly, and there are always lots of fish at that depth on Fayette.  I will get to that report in the next day or two.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines