For the past month or so, a few friends and I have been trash talking back and forth. As the time came closer, the more and more trash was spoken. It was all about the second annual Don’s Bait and Tackle Backcountry Blow Out tournament. Last year, my buddy Alex Hernandez and I managed to take home the prize of […]
Go Big or Go Home
Three Weeks of Misery
I haven’t been on the water too much lately. If some may recall, I mentioned on my last blog entry that the day didn’t end too well. I wrecked my truck on the way home. The truck was fine, and so was the skiff. But the trailer, not so much. So I headed up to Ankona Boats in Ft. Pierce […]
Rockport Reflections
Over the years fishing’s place in my life has transformed itself many times. When I started I went to have fun and hopefully catch fish. Size and quantity were trivial. As I began to grasp the concept my priority moved to catching numbers. The more fish I caught the happier I was. Next, the pursuit of big fish captured my […]
Rojo’s and Robalo
Here’s the video from yesterday in the park. The editing was just slapped together rather quickly. Still trying to figure out this GoPro a little more.First scene was shot with my Nikon DSLR.
Cajun Country
When I think of Louisiana a few things quickly come to mind: casinos, Mardi Gras, Cajun food, and thousands of acres of ripe estuaries. No place in the US boasts more marshland than the Louisiana Delta. The Delta is a creation of the many creeks and rivers that dump their nutrient-rich contents into in the area. The most notable waterway […]
Escape From Prison, to Paradise
It had been a long couple of weeks consisting of twelve to sixteen hour work days. In a boat building facility that felt an awful lot like what I imagine prison would feel like. Thankfully, I have never had any run ins with the law. So I don’t know if my thoughts are even close to accurate. All I could […]
Transition from Spots to Dots
The fishing has been slow last few weeks mainly due to my indecision and obstinacy. I dislike transition periods because I have a hard time changing tactics and targeting different species when my focus has been so narrow. For three quarters of the year my concentration is singlar: redfish. When December rolls around and water temperatures begin to dip into […]
Skinny Water Bones
Our week on the beach in video format. Enjoy.
Back To Reality
The last two days of our trip went by in a blur. After a week of fishing under the hot sun and sleeping on the beach, our bodies were begging us to stop, but our hearts were dragging us on. Our last two mornings consisted of a long sleep in, dollar a cup coffee, and lazy attempts at coaxing tarpon […]
Inconsistently Good
The most recent cold front is a reminder that we’re nearing the end of the redfish explosion in the marshes on the Texas Coast. Over the last few weeks most of the shrimp has migrated to the Gulf leaving fin-fish as the only remaining forage available for a ravenous redfish. Extreme low tides due to the nagging northwest gales will […]