7/23 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - High water had slowed the trout bite down and we're back to the high water again as of yesterday. Most of the fish we have caught this week have come from the drop-off of the ICW or smaller channels around the flats.
We are still keeping an eye out for the redfish schools to start showing up in the ULM. Maybe the next tropical depression will get them headed north.
For those who target the redfish there are still some being caught on the
west side of the ICW.
Our summer flounder run has been a pretty good on this year. Had some clients catch some good fish and some good numbers on a couple of charters. All were caught on live bait.Mike
7/17 Report from Nebulosos Upper Laguna and Baffin/Alazan - We headed out saturday to look for some trout for an upcoming tourney. pulled into a fishy looking area around 8:00 and as soon as we stepped out of the boat, we were catching dinks left and right. saw a bunch of flounder, but couldn't get any of them to hit... oh well. after only putting one fish on the stringer, we headed down the shoreline to another 'fishy' looking spot... saw more flounder. waded for a while with only one dink. decided to switch from my mojo colored big mino to a salt n pepper assassin. first cast = 25", 5 lb trout... released after attempted photos (thanks to my brother, who appearantly doesn't know how to use a camera...). two redfish and one more keeper trout to the box and that was the end of the day for us. the fish were caught in waist deep water (or less), over a sandy/grassy flat with TONS of bait present. all fish caught on tops and tails.
that same day, my brother fished the API tourney @ bluff's landing. his team took 1st place stringer w/ a huge trout caught somewhere in alazan (on croaker...), a nice sized flounder (caught in baffin on a sandbar in less than a foot of water) and a mid-slot redfish (caught over a mud/grass spoil island in the laguna). congrats to robert johnson, shane maxwell, tj collins and troy utterback... nice fish guys!
7/9 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Between rain storms fishing, even in the high waters of the ULM right now
hasn't been bad, using bait. We've been fishing the deeper drop-offs
and sand holes. Free lining croaker and piggy perch catching nice trout and flounder from time to time.
The redfish seem to be scattered across the flats and along the drop-off of the ICW north of the highline.
I'm also seeing a few schools of drum around Pita and PureOil Channel
but you better get to them early, lots of boat traffic running over them.Under these high water conditions a persons ability to read the water
will produce more fish that your GPS...so turn off that GPS and learn to read the water.Mike
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater6/24 Upper Laguna and Baffin from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing the ULM and Baffin hasn't changed much over the past couple of weeks. There are still trout in the sand holes on the flats using live bait in the ULM. Baffin has been holding some trout on the deep rocks and Yarbrough spoils when the wind has been down. We found redfish on the drop-off of the Intralcoastal for a couple of days when the tide was slack so for those of you that want to catch redfish...there is a good start. Still alot of undersize trout which is a good thing, tells us our fishery is still producing good numbers and the future looks good for now. Lots of loose grass floating in the ULM but the water is still looking great and so does the amount of grass on the flats
Some good reports from the Corpus Christi Bay gas wells for trout caught on croaker this week.
6/11 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The laguna Madre has still been pretty good over the past couple of weeks. Lots of trout and a few redfish mixed in. We have been able to keep a consistant bite in 2' to 3' of water using live bait. Except for a couple of rain-outs and high pressure, limits and close to limits seem to be the rule of thumb.
We got lucky and ran across some real good redfish schools early last week on our way back to the marina and were able to add some to the box as a bonus.I haven't run across any schools of drum this week but I'm sure they are
out there and we should be able to find them when the wind lays.If you haven't been out your missing great water conditions and fishing.
By the way we had the privilege of spending the morning with a Frigate
Bird last week. Kinda cool, the bird hung around for a couple of days.
My clients were able to make some great pictures.Mike
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater6/7 Upper Laguna Report from Saturday 6/5 and the ROMANN - Went fishing with a couple of Old School 70's Bluffians on Saturday. Water was way too clear in a lot of places. We tried a few favorite spots catching only dinks with heavy boat traffic. On our way back to BL, hit a few sand flats and got blessed to run into several areas of schooling reds.
I was throwing my usual gulps with no action, but my buddies gold spoons seemed to be the call. After switching, they made me a believer. We had one triple hook up and it was awesome. We all walked the boat perimeter at least twice to land those reds. Listening to 3 spools reeling at the same time was incredible. We all ended up with a limit of nice reds between 24" to 27", plus JAM ended up with a nice 27" trout that was following some reds.
We were blessed to run into those fish among many other boats.
Enjoy,
Romann
5/27 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Despite the 35+ mph winds the fishing the past 10 days in the ULM has been "off the hook". We have been fishing live bait on the grasslines in 3'to 4' of water, producing limits and quality trout.
Water conditions have been very good even in the high winds and I understand the holiday weekend winds are going to be down.
Redfish seem to be scattered but with all the tournaments over the past weekend I can understand why.
There are also some schools of drum cruising some of the flats and you should be able to catch them on shrimp or gulps, just keep your eyes open.Looks like the weather, water and fishing should all come together this weekend, hope everyone has a safe Memorial Day weekend.
Mike
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwaterZiacatcher had a nice day close to the house off of Laguna Shores - "Took the boat out around 10AM to test the motor so I stayed within view of the casa. Went to my 2 minute honey-hole and nada. Was fishing an area 2 minutes further south when I see rippling water. Knew it had to be either reds or drum. Turned out to be the latter. Had to be 1000 fish in the school. Threw soft plastics of various colors as well as gulps by themselves and under a cork with no luck. Put on a gold spoon and wound up with 18 drum, 2 reds and 3 trout. Released one red and one trout that were at the bottom of the slot. Didn't want to be like George Costanza and have to worry about shrinkage. The red in the pic is 22" and the trout is 21". Everything caught on gold spoons. "
5/20 Prior to the big winds - The flats areas around Pita and south towards Pure Oil had been pretty good for trout for those throwing soft plastics. Ziacatcher caught these on Tequilla Sand Eels . Guides were doing well earlier this week around Emmord's on live bait. The bite was early
Gotmullet? was out Wednesday evening and posted this report from the Boat Hole: Headed out yesterday evening from 5pm-10pm.
A little slow but my buddies caught a few.
This past weekend Ahat caught and released this 6.5 pound trout on a topwater.
5/14 Beach to Bay Saturday - It should be over with by Noon. Rocky at Roy's Bait and Tackle says shrimp and popping corks and gulps fished under popping corks are producing the most trout and reds in the windy conditions on the north end of Emmord's Hole. Fishing is still hot down in the Land Cut as well. In Baffin Aubrey Black says "Fishing is good when the winds aren't blowing 40mph. Catching big fish shallow on topwaters. In particular pink Skitterwalks. Couple of fish over 8 lbs.
Not many reds but then we haven't been targeting them. The one time we did, we caught several lower slot reds on red/white paddletails and on the fly in ankle deep water."5/6 Upper Laguna and points south report via Capt. Mike Singleterry - Water conditions have been pretty good the times the winds are down or at least what I have seen in the ULM, Baffin and the south end of the Landcut. Tides seem to be back to normal and fishing has really been on the up swing.
The tiderunner trout have started to show up at the south end of the Landcut and the ULM but the big numbers are not here yet. The past couple of day my clients were able to put together limits of trout using bait some of the fish have been real nice, a couple in the 27" and 26" range all the rest of the fish have been in the 17" to 20" range.
We should see the winds start to settle down towards and after the middle of May and the water and fishing should get back to a everyday normal.
Mike
4/24 Upper Laguna report via Capt. Mike Singleterry - Over the past couple of weeks my go to area for trout and redfish has been the King Ranch Shoreline, Emmords was holding both trout and redfish Friday, Saturday and Sunday before the front or low pressure on Monday. We caught most on live shrimp and a popping cork although soft plastics did produce a few but not on a consistant basis.
The drum are still being caught in the Landcut and the Gutter on live shrimp and it seems the water conditions in the Landcut is getting a little better when the wind was down the last couple of days.
Lots of skipjack in the ULM but it seems since the Packery was open the skipjack population has tripled. The tiderunners should start showing up in the ULM in the next few weeks, I'll try to keep someone posted so the study can get some tags in some fish.
Mike
4/2 Brown Tide - First the Brown tide. Captain Mike Singleterry says "From Pita Island South mostly on the west side of the ICW but patches in the PINS owned water. (they missed me) Not in the back end of Baffin yet...but in areas in the front of Baffin and on the Kennedy Shoreline in the Landcut all the way thru.
Ziacatcher was out again in "the backyard" and filed this report: After several stops without a bite I hit the backyard. Water was clear and after catching a few trout I saw a monster sized school of drum. Were not interested in any of my lures. I then see a green corking being pulled through the water. While going to investigate I find a big school of reds. I cast my tequila sand eel to the edge of it and catch, and release, a 29 1/2" red. I spotted the school again by finding the green cork. Another oversize red. This patter goes on for a while. All told I kept 3 reds, 24, 26, 27 3/4 and released another 12 up to 33". The trout, as well as, the drum were also caught on the same lure.
An awesome day!!!
DJohn71 posted this report from the past weekend: My close friend Jason and his new squeeze made a visit to the coast from west Texas Friday and Saturday. Being the good host and having spent a couple of birthdays fishing with Jason, it was good to have him back down our way.
We headed out late Friday morning due to Jason and Jeanelle collecting fishing licenses and Dramamine (I told her ULM isn't the gulf, but she wanted some anyway)
We headed out with 100 live shrimp and started out on a long drift from Just north of Pita to the third windmill. Medium northeast wind allowed us to work the entire water column, but we only managed a few dink trout. Jason lost his first one (looked like a nice spec) when he tried to hand off his rod to jen, but she wanted to catch her own fish and told him to bring it in himself. I like her already.
With little success, and wind from three different directions, we headed to Laguna Reef for Mahi and shrimp. Jason reloaded the cooler with frosty adult beverages, and we headed for Emmord's Hole.
The winds (now SE) had picked up, so we anchored in 5ft and worked a grass line we couldn't see, but I know is there.
Just when I gave the "five minutes and we move call", we picked up a chunky sand trout. Then another. Then another. They didn't give much fight, but they were eatin size, and I remembered how good they tasted as a kid, so in the live well they went.
Here is a pic of Jen with her first ULM fish
The next fish was a nice 24" black drum from Jason:
Not to be outdone, Jeanelle brings in this 29" drum. On a 2500 series spinning reel, by herself, her own fish. Male egos deflated
In the meantime, I managed a sandy and a whiting. At least I'm eating. If you put them on fish you're a good host right?
Now Jason's reel goes off and he can't turn the fish. My Symetre 4000 is screaming and ARS rod is bent, and he can't turn the fish.
About 125 yards of red Powerpro is heading towards the King Ranch shoreline, so I tell Jason to tighten the drag and we'll either turn him or save the rest of the spool. Rocky told me the braid would hold, but I just got these re-spooled, and they were't cheap.
Jason managed to turn the big ugly and after a few runs under the boat, we managed to land this 40+ inch drum:
The 27+ pounder was released to fight another day. Jason also broke the size record for my boat, beating my 37", 16 lb red from last fall:
Oh, the host managed a nice anit-climactic keeper too:
Back to the house for fish and boat cleaning and back to Laguna Reef for another scrumptious seafood dinner.
3/24 Black Drum remain strong at night - Still getting reports of oversized Drum around JFK area piers mostly at night . However here is one that was caught and released in the high winds on Friday 3/19 in the Upper Laguna by Ramiro Alejos. It was 36" long and weighed 25 lbs!
-Luke's personal best 3/16 - Had fishing plans with my bud for a few days, and I called him this morning at 7am to see if he still wanted to brave the weather. We both agreed that although it was calling for 20 mph winds, cold weather, and 100% chance of rain, it felt REALLY fishy out, so we decided to fish.
Got on the water at 8:30, after pickin up shrimp at Clems. Guy at the counter looked at me like I was a lil nuts because I almost forgot my bait at the counter, plus I had a kayak on my car when he said they were expecting storms. As forcasted, it was nasty out, but the right kind of nasty.
First spot, first cast, 16 inch trout. Drifted south quite a bit, casting a superspook jr while freelining shirmp. Then....BAM!! Looked like a my topwater got blasted with a depth charge.
Drag starts screaming, and Im on a Texas sleigh ride. After about 10 minutes, I finally catch up to her, and its a moster trout. I didn't have my net, and no leader, so without grabbing the 6hooked lure, I used my feet to lift her into the yak.
Put her up to the tape, 31 inches, my biggest to date, fat too. Removed the hook, revived her for a minute or two, and as I promised last time I got a big trout, I released her healthy back into the soup.
Slow for a bit after that, so we relocated back to the the spot I showed pics of the other day. Here we got nada on the lures but 5-6 reds between 15-19 inches, few dink trout, and my bud got a fat 26" red which we kept for the grill.
All in all, crappy weather, but a great morning, and a lesson...persistence pays off.
The Big Girl-
On the front latch for scale
And the release (...picture just for Topdog
My bud with his red
3/19 Xtreme Redfish Tournament at Bluff Landing - Saturday the boats will be competing and Sunday it is the Kayak division so expect a crowd. Rabbit posted this nice kayak report with trout and reds opn St. Patrick's Day -It was such a nice afternoon I decided to put the kayak in and try some fishing. Winds were nw about 10 mph and the temp was in the 60s. Got to the water and put the kayak in and paddled over to some ones honey hole. Caught 3 reds and 3 specs in 4 hours. The biggest red was 28 inches and 10 spots, the other two reds went 25 and 22 1/2. The specs were 17 1/2, 17 and 15 1/4.
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Fishing and Kayaking its a rough life but somebody has to do it.Luke had his personal best on 3/16 - Had fishing plans with my bud for a few days, and I called him this morning at 7am to see if he still wanted to brave the weather. We both agreed that although it was calling for 20 mph winds, cold weather, and 100% chance of rain, it felt REALLY fishy out, so we decided to fish.
Got on the water at 8:30, after pickin up shrimp at Clems. Guy at the counter looked at me like I was a lil nuts because I almost forgot my bait at the counter, plus I had a kayak on my car when he said they were expecting storms. As forcasted, it was nasty out, but the right kind of nasty.
First spot, first cast, 16 inch trout. Drifted south quite a bit, casting a superspook jr while freelining shirmp. Then....BAM!! Looked like a my topwater got blasted with a depth charge.
Drag starts screaming, and Im on a Texas sleigh ride. After about 10 minutes, I finally catch up to her, and its a moster trout. I didn't have my net, and no leader, so without grabbing the 6hooked lure, I used my feet to lift her into the yak.
Put her up to the tape, 31 inches, my biggest to date, fat too. Removed the hook, revived her for a minute or two, and as I promised last time I got a big trout, I released her healthy back into the soup.
Slow for a bit after that, so we relocated back to the the spot I showed pics of the other day. Here we got nada on the lures but 5-6 reds between 15-19 inches, few dink trout, and my bud got a fat 26" red which we kept for the grill.
All in all, crappy weather, but a great morning, and a lesson...persistence pays off.
The Big Girl-
On the front latch for scale
And the release (...picture just for Topdog )
My bud with his red
3/11 Spring Break starts - Keep that in mind as you make plans. Just make sure to be on the water before beer thirty and before 5pm as the beach crowd returns. This weekend Jerry B's is having a kayak demo day on Saturday next to the JFK Causeway from 9-3. Check out the kayaks and fly fishing seminars.
The bite recently has been good around the King Ranch Shoreline in the deeper water areas where bait is located. Fishing up from the south from Baffin this past weekend, Snooker-Ed and I found a few keeper trout just south of Bird Island working the deeper water off of the spoil islands. All of the fish came from the deeper four foot water and they wanted small lighter colored soft plastics. The warmer weather this week may have changed the pattern somewhat but temperatures are dropping again this weekend.
2/25 Baffin Bay Rodeo this weekend out of Bluff Landing - The weather is looking better and expect a good crowd of anglers going for the guaranteed $15,000. 2 day two fish live weigh in. Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Corpus Christi Chapter CCA Banquet Thursday March 4th 5:30 Pm at American Bank Center! Lots of great auctions, food and prizes!
Here's a Bull Drum report from Pitbull fishing at Clem's 2/23 disregard the camera date LOL
Hit up Clem's for a few hours got 4 big ugly 2 back to back thanks to oldtimer for loaning me his net for the night i needed it al 4 over 40 biggest 42 1/8
2/10 Slow Reports with the Weather . Here's one from Chuck at Shamrock 2/5 - Hit the water around 2:30ish
Paddled to my first spot, and tides are supper high, water clear in some spots, but off color in others, and water was fairly cold.
some bait fish & sting rays...but no reds or trout,
move to next spot and thought i'd cut thru the mangroves, and found lots and lots of movement, mud boils, did a few drifts in there, and even backed the yak in the grass, but no takers, some were mullet & i spotted a small gaftop, and a few reds, no tails though.
Went for an epic paddle and the wind died down and ccbay was glass. Wierd huh?
Talked with 4 other yakkers and they got skunked too.
Here's some nature pics.
1/29 Upper Laguna - The Baffin Bash is going to be out of Bluff's Landing this weekend so expect a lot of traffic. Black Drum have been hot on the JFK Causeway recently at The Cos-Way. Both keeper and oversized are showing up. Trout have been a bit slow lately.
Here is a report from Troutslayer from Rockport to Port Mansfield - Finally got some hard core fishing in. Tuesday we stayed around PA and Rockport and wacked the reds in guts. It is like shooting fish in a barrel when you get the low tides and Nwest wind emptying out the flats. Three of us caught 60 plus with about 20 keeper size on gulps of any shape or color. Not so good Wednesday. Put in at 37 and ran all the way to Mansfield in search of the elusive big trout. Nada and we looked at all points in between. Bait was scarce and when we did find it all we caught were dinks. Them boys in the Baffin bash will have a battle unless something changes...not to mention it may be a bit cold this weekend.
1/19 Upper Laguna - Ironmanstan came out of seclusion to post this report 1/18 HELLO eveyone,
I know it's been awhile since i've posted a report but things have been reel busy at the casa de IMS. Everything is fine but i'll sure be glad when it's time to retire,
Me and my new student left the dock at about 0700 this morning with high hopes depite of the slack fishing reports The winds were east se at about 5-10 mph. Bryce is my new student and a good fisherman infact he out did me this morning but that shows just what a good teacher i'am. lol
wow I can't say enough about him he is a great student and will be going into the Navy in May. He also lives with me and Mrs.IMS. We really enjoy having him around.
We were tossing plum chartruse sand eels with a 1/8 oz jig head working the edge of a favorite channel. We were back home by 11:00 and will be eating some fresh fillets tonite. I LIKE MINE FRIED and thats the way we will cook them.
He even cleans the fish. Thats what I'm talking about.Upper Laguna/ Humble /Packery - Hot off the press from Jebsays who writes "Sunday:
Started off fishing the main PI Canal, along the southern shore where the trout bite was excellent 2 weeks ago. Couldn't buy a bite on an assortment of soft plastics!Tried off of Packery w/ no luck.
Ran up north and fished the edges of the main Humble Channel near the bridge and picked up 1 small trout.
Ran further north to the mouth of CC Bay and worked the edges of the EC and into some of the deeper flats (3-4') and only managed to pick up 2 more trout.
Monday: Tried the PI canals again (since we launch in the neighborhood, we've learned to always check things out here: many a times we have motored around everywhere only to find them biting ONLY in the neighborhood!) and had little luck... only hooking up with 2-3 small trout hanging out in structure (off of decks, boat houses, etc.). We worked all the way from the main PI Canal off of Gypsy to the JFK.
Tried the 'low' bridge just east of the JFK with zero luck.
Moved over to the Humble and fished a channel intersection and finally found the fish... or at least the fish that would bite on plastics. They were still smaller trout - anywhere from 10" to 20-21" but at least they were numerous and biting. They were biting on light and dark plastics but were a little more aggressive on the darker colors. Bite varied from very soft to aggressive - most were somewhere inbetween though. We ended up catching 12-13 a piece over a couple of hours... let all free to grow a little.
Water temp was 52-54 on Sunday and 54-57 on Monday.
"1/15 Upper Laguna - Rough cold weather then lots of rain hampered fishing this week. Fish killed due to the cold appears to be a minor event with only a few snook and mostly baitfish reported stunned or killed Sea turtles were not so lucky as over a hundred green turtles reported to have been killed by the cold water temps.
Humble Channel was hot for Black Drum for "Gotbait?" this week as he reported a limit and a 32" er he tossed back. Expect good fishing for drum and reds to continue at the Cos-Way and other local piers.
Over the cold spell several good catches of Redfish were made in the deeper areas near the Padre Isles and close to the ICW.
12/26 Upper Laguna and Corpus Christi- Not too many folks fishing due to the holidays. The water dropped out on the 20th. Expect the cold water patterns to be in full force this week with highs in the low to mid 50's. Fish the edges along the ICW depending on wind direction to choose east or west side. There are still reports of Red Tide in Corpus Christi Bay so it looks like the jetty rocks are out - too bad as this is the time of year to fish that area.
12/1 Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says the birds are working the shrimp the trout are chasing in the ditch!
The Honorable Ironmanstan's Backyard Report Saturday 11/28 - Hello board, Yes its been awhile since I have posted a report. I must admit that I have been slacking on my fishing due to some outside forces that I can't control. Plus there is still a bag full of honey-do's for me to take care of. Well my daughter landed her first big red a full 25incher and it was a fatty. She also managed to boat a drum, Russell boated a good 21in. trout ,while yours truly nailed a huge 16inch trout. The water was clear in some spots and dusty in others and fish were scattered, but they are out there if you search for them , there was little bait working mostly rain minnows and alot of little perch. The fish were all caught on plastic bull minnows. pumpkinseed/chartruse. HAPPY HOLIDAYS....IMS.
THATS MY GIRL.... She makes dad happy. I hope it stays that way forever. She is a good fishergirl, but then she has a good teacher.
Hey Tyler, send that pic to Ron B.
RUSSELL FROM BUGTUSSELL. 21 INCH TROUT ..He is a great young man and treats my daughter with respect, he also treats me with respect and thats a healthy thing.He is good in the boat and is a serious fisherman when fishing.
This guy just didn't know when to quit........11/19 Sorry for the lack of reports - Vacation and then the swine flu got me - Meanwhile Alex at the Cos-Way is reporting flounder and reds today. They have plenty of live bait on hand as well.
YaknBak too his grandson out again 11/15 and filed this report - Took Andrew, my Grandson fishing this morning in the kayak.
Pretty nice early then it got a little breezy and the grass got thick.
We launched at Dimmet pier area and paddled out east and drifted with the SE wind toward the powerlines. Water was in pretty good shape, not very many people out this morning.
After catching his first red on a Topwater last weekend he was ready for another trip and some more walking the dog.
Well I must say he is a quick learner and very patient working lures.
It paid off again for him today as he bags this 22.5" Red on an Top Dog Jr.
10/19 Causeway Area - I spoke with Cos at the Cos Way who says they have been getting redfish and black drum with scattered trout. Fishing usually best with the moving tides. Look for Croaker to pick up soon. No signs of Red Tide.
Upper Laguna - There were some reports of red tide moving up through Packery and around to the canals on Padre Island close to Packery. Dead fish and red tide aerosol also observed in some of those canals. No dead fish reported in the nearby flats at Shamrock or Dead Man's Hole.
Trout have been hitting topwaters early and soft plastics later in the day. Good Redfishing on soft plastics as well. Look for the shrimp to start migrating soon. Watch for bird activity in the ICW and deeper water areas. Use Fishbite Extremes, Gulps. Doa shrimp or live shrimp under an popping cork to fast action.
10/5 Upper Laguna Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says "Still catching schooled up redfish from
the KRS down to the Kennedy shoreline. We have been throwing topwaters at the schools had having alot of success. Most of the fish are in the 34" to 39" range. Trout fishing has been a little slow....I think they all ran off..afraid the redfish are going to eat them. "Some nice Mangroves coming from around the rocks downtown too from Lord of the Hardheads who reported on 10/3's trip
Headed out hoping for some of the rain that they were predicting but no luck. Still seemed to keep a lot of the traffic off the water though. Fished around the rocks and caught some nice reds, small trout and decent Mangroves. The smallest trout was right at 15" but he was gut hooked and when I pulled it out he had another hook right next to it. The reds were full of 2-3" crabs. Overall a great day.
9/25 Upper Laguna - Look for Reds to school up in large numbers. Good reports for Redfish and a few Trout off Laguna Shores and places like the Boat Hole. There was a good run of Croaker reported at the Naval Base the day the front hit. Try places like Swantner Park using fish bites and shrimp combos.
9/18 Upper Laguna - Cos at the Cosway says lots of reds and flounder have been caught recently with more at night and early in the morning. Ironmanstan had this report from the Backyard after 9/16 Well I figured it was about time to post up a reel report. I have been pretty busy lately with work and getting settled into the new casa and some other outside of the normal relm projects. It was high time for a little fishing , time to soak a lure you might say. So me and capt.Mike took off in the " Flat Bottom Girl " she was ready and so were we. Capt. Mike has been fishing here all his life and he's got more fishing stories than the bible has verses the only other place with more stories might be the Fishemans fish market in Vanoy village, and it might end up being a tie. We fished for a couple hours and boated up 8 nice trout and finished up the day with a double hook up on reds, mine being undersize and Mikes being a fat, I mean fat 27 7/8" on the nose, redfish. I have a pic of the fish and i'll post it up later today afterwork. We got home before way before dark cleaned up the stuff and then the mosquitos took over, and they were agressive.
So now we are zeroed in on our game and ready for more fishing. So here's the deal, if ya get out there don't be "a scared" to try a salt and pepper or a glow chartruse plastic in and around the channels. Have a great day. IMS
Hey panamayak were your ears burning. ...you were in some of those stories, I have got to be in a boat with you two .
8/30 Upper Laguna - It was a little tough this past week with the hot weather and higher tides. Most of the trout were caught on Piggy Perch with lure fishing tough after and early topwater bite. Emmord's Hole and those deeper areas around the King Ranch Shoreline have been the best. Look for the Fall Redfish to begin schooling on the backside of Mustang and Padre Islands and around the spoils. Here is a Sunday report from Skipper
Took Mama to Emmords this morning and she put the whoopin on me. I bought her 2 dozen Piggies and I used lures. All I caught were dinks and she had a limit of Reds with the biggest going 27" shown here
She also had 5 Trout from 15 1/2 to 20 1/2". We are having fish and shrimp tonight...Adios8/21Upper Laguna Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says fishing has still been pretty good in the ULM but I expect things to start slowing do some with the higher tides. The redfish should start their move to the gulf soon, start looking for those schools in the next 30 days. My clients are still catching trout on the deeped drop-offs using piggies and smaller croaker. Nothing in the way of giant trout but some solid numbers.
I have noticed some drum schooling around the Boat Hole and Emmords
on the calmer day. You might want to try using a Gulp shrimp.
Maybe we'll get some rain soon.Mike
8/14 Upper Laguna Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says fishing in the ULM has been outstanding to say the least but this time of the year if your not using croaker or piggies it going to be tuff.
The high salinity levels, low tides and warm water make plastic kinda tuff
right now.
Deeper water in areas like the KRS, Beecrofts and Emmords have been the key. Water conditions are real good all over the Laguna points south.If you do plan on spending some time on the water this weekend, take plenty of water and the most important part...drink it.
Capt. Mike
8/3Upper Laguna - Tough winds, full moon, heat and low tides have made it a bit tougher in recent days with live piggy perch working the best in those deeper areas near grass flats. Live Shrimp was scarce at area bait stands. Here is a report from 8/1 from Djohn71 Took the little one out this morning after having to cancel on Friday.
I got called into the office for a 10 o'clock meeting, messing up a perfectly planned day, but she did get to have some fun with mom.
Of course Friday was perfect, no wind, shrimp flags flying, and she was wide awake at 6 am.
Saturday, 15-20 winds, last quart of shrimp at the Bait Bucket (second stop), She slept in. Finally got going about 7, and fishing by 7:30.
We anchored up near Humble channel and fished the downwind , windward.....We fished across the channel with the wind at our backs.
The little one was working her Shimano 1000 with pink braided line, giving the dinks all they could handle.
We managed two this size
two gar fish, one redfish, and one vermillion snapper. Cut up one of the gar and set her pole out with it. Something large picked it up after 10 minutes passed (five minutes too long for her), stripped drag, then spit it out before she could set the hook.
We went out this afternoon with the other half and beat up a few more dinks. Good boat7/21 Upper Laguna - In spite of the low tides and heat fishing has been generally good with some doing better than others. Skipper has been making numerous catches using live shrimp or DOA's or fishbite extremes under popping corks recently.
ot a late start this morning. I took my buddy Rusty to the Honey Hole but we only managed 13 keeper Trout and no Reds this time. I caught one 18" Red and that was it. Lots of dinks again. Caught most on a DOA shrimp..Adios
Skipper
Troutslayer had a good day 7/18 - Good day on the water with the family. When I take them out I am the bait and cast man except when we first hit a new spot...then of course I have to make sure it holds fish so as not to waste any of my girls time. First cast at a new spot and I knew it was big. I thought, for a whole nano second,about passing the rod off. Didn't make 30 but close. Released in fine shape for the next guy or gal.
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Wish I Were in Baffin7/1 ULM via Blast-N-Cast - A buddy called and wanted to get a line wet so I skated out of work around noon. Fishing was good today but it was really hot. We ended up with 11 trout and a Red with my biggest trout going 26" and my Red going 34" The Red was a really good fight that lasted about 15 min on my 10lb test. My buddy wanted the Red for some Ceviche so I tagged it and into the box it went. We left em biting at about 3:30pm. Here are a few pics.
6/19 Happy Father's Day! - Expect a lot of traffic this weekend from Fathers doing what they damn well please because it is their weekend! Wind is down a bit but the water remains murky dark green in the backyard near the Causeway. Good reports on trout and reds still coming in on live bait and lures. Popping corks and gulps should work in the deeper areas. Reds have been shallow lately on the back side of Mustang and Padre( north of Bird Island)
6/11 The Backyard has an Algae Bloom Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says "Fishing up until the winds and high pressure this week was very good for trout using live bait on the deeper grass lines in the ULM. Good numbers and sizes were being caught on a daily basis. Redfish are starting to show up in Baffin around the rocks. Water conditions except for the very northern part of the ULM is good despite the high winds the past couple of days. "
6/8 YaknBak No Le Hace Tourney Report 6/6 - Fished the "No Le Hace" tournament in Baffin saturday.
Carlton and Bobby Joe both ended up with slams, Specs, Flounder,
and Reds. Bobby Joe caught a 28.5" trout just 5 minutes out of
the boat. We knew it was going to be a good day after that.
Weather was great, water was just right.
We ended up with 1st. place in the Flounder and most spots on
a Red (7) at 27.75" .
All fish caught were on Tops, paddle tails, and plugs.
Carlton with his slam.
Bobby Joe with his slam.
The full meal deal.
Thanks to the people who organized the tourney, great food and beer.
Thanks to God for a great day on the water with good friends.5/25 Ironmanstan's Backyard Report Friday and Saturday - Fishing wasn't great but it wasn't bad it still gets a big 10 on the fun scale or should I say fun meter. Friday I fished with friend Gilbert, he is funny in the boat and keeps me motivated. The winds were out of the north and slighty cool for May. The tides are running high thanks to our low in the gulf. The topwater action was furious at first, a blowup on almost every cast but few takers.
Today Saturday I had the chance to fish with a really cool guy ya'll know him as uncled on the board. He makes the aerial MAPS and they are grrrrrrreat. The winds started out of the west and light as we set up on our first drift, then they shifted to the sw keeping our faces pointed to the bright sun with large towering clouds building in the background. I'm gonna tell ya what that uncled can sure snag little piggys on a plastics its got to be the action of the braid over my mono. He can also play hook up on the big fish. I enjoyed fishing with him. The trout pattern skitterwalker is still producing along with the pumpkinseed/chart. norton bull minnow plastic.
D tossing a red in the box todays catch was same as yesterdays 2-reds 4 trout.5/22 Laguna via Yaknbak - My buddy Bobby Joe and I took a day of vacation and headed south.
Best weather I've fished in in a long time.
The fish were busting tops right out of the boat, but no hook ups, lot's of floating grass. It turned off as fast as it started and was another two hrs.
before it started up again, absolutely beautiful day on the water.
Ended up with 3 specks up to 21" on Tops.
One Red and 3 Flounder on soft plastic. The one Flounder went 5 lbs. @ 22".
Bobby Joe barehanded that thing and got him strung, a feat in itself without a net.
5/15 Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says he's getting lots of trout and reds on croaker these days from the Kennedy Shoreline to the Boathole. He's been doing better on the calmer days as one would expect. Tide Runners have been showing down south in the Landcut and at Packery . Here is one caught on croaker 5/7 and released by Troy Nagy in Port Mansfield fishing with Capt. Kevin Aiken.
Here is another caught 5/7 at Packery on live shrimp by Mike Barerra It was 29.5" and just under 9lbs
5/4 Upper Laguna Report via Flatstalker - I was able to come down this weekend with my brother for a quick fishing trip. He hasnt been down in over a year and was really excited. Even though the winds were high we did very well. It started on my 4th cast with a nice 30" red. While i was tagging it my brother hooked up on a nice 23" red. Less than 30 minutes had passed and my brother catches a
28 1/2" red that we released. to end the day i caught and released a nice 32" red. We ended the day with 9 trout and 4 reds (1 oversized). we were back at the house by noon. We hit the water again Sunday but only managed 1 22" red and 2 keeper trout. All fish were caught in about 3' of water using live shrimp under a popping cork. Pictures of the oversized reds are attached. Good fishing to everyone.
5/2 Catch for the Cure Report from Redfish Chaser - Saturday May 2nd was just howling winds on N. Padre Island. Man, the water was nasty looking for most part.
Waded for miles in the mind blowing winds and finally found my way to my soft spot.
Chased two nice Reds down just to weigh in for the Catch the Cure for Parkinson's Disease tournament at Marker 37. Caught a third one, but smaller than the other two ... so released. The other two weren't king size, but what the heck... perhaps others didn't fair well. The two were kept alive, weighed in, and then released to see me again another weekend! The two Redfish were sweet fighters - but not contenders at the weigh in. But, next time!!!
RedFish Chasers Jeff and John.
RedFish Chaser Amber (Saved - abused dog with one eye).
4/16 Upper Laguna - Some nice fish reported by Capt. Len Girard fishing on Wednesday with a big variety of fish from Redfish, Ladyfish, Trout and Flounder, Black Drum and even a large Stingray caught by Frank's Group on live shrimp fishing spots from the Boat Hole and South of the JFK Causeway.
Capt Mike Singleterry says the fish are starting to show back up this week in the Upper Laguna. He even got into some Spanish Mackerel at the Boat Hole on live shrimp under popping corks.
Here;s a report from John D'John on 4/13 - As promised, I took my little one out Monday. I had planned to take her out early before the winds picked up, but my little sister wanted to take her shopping before she went home. The "quick trip" to the mall ended around 2, so we hit the water south of pure oil and Beacroft's Hole around 2:30.
The NW wind made casting to the shoreline for reds almost impo..., no, impossible with our setup, so we targeted the flat between the shore and sandbar. With my shrimp caretaker turned fisher-girl, we manage to put the whammy on a dozen hardheads and some dink trout.
No reds today, but a several fat hardheads managed to pull drag on her Shimano 1000 with 10lb braid (yes, my daughter fishes with 10 lb braid, red braid that was promised by the good folks @ Roy's B&T to turn pink in the sun).
We finally got a call from the boss telling us to come home @ 7 (it does not get dark at 7!). Her last fish was an almost keeper spec who was quickly CPR'd and will hopefully do battle next year with my little one.
We managed to make it back to PI by 7:30 and she "drove" the boat back to the ramp from the ICW.
This is why I live here...And and Easter Report from Topdog15 - I had a chance to do some poling and sightcasting w/ the awesome weather on Easter Sunday. Dead calm, misty, fog. The reds were tailing everywhere.
Fish in the pic went 10lbs. It was layed up in a few inches of water w/ its entire back exposed.
4/2 Upper Laguna - Lupe at the Cos-Way says they're catching sand trout, whiting and keeper drum. The big drum are winding down.
3/25 Upper Laguna - Lots of reports fom the area during the past couple of weeks so here are a few sent in by Corpusfishing.com forum
members. The first is from Br1006 from 3/21 - 3/22 - Before my report I must apologize for forgetting my camera in SA, so no pics.
Headed down to the island for a weekend of just me and one of my best friends who has not been able to come fishing with me in almost a year. I missed fishing w/ him as much as he misses fishing I think. We always have a great time and really just work well together on the boat etc...
Anyway, Saturday did not make it on the water until about 8:30 due to being served some bad ice the night before. Figured we would start close and work our way south and see what we could find. Started on the flats just south of the cause way and picked up one trout during a looong drift. Moved a little further south and drifted out in front of bluffs landing picking up one more trout. Worked our way down like this all the way to pure oil channel and ended the day with 6 keeper trout and one 22" red. Every fish was caught on rootbeer artificials. Would not hit anything but rootbeer for some reason?
Sunday we got an earlier start but headed straight to emmords hole first, NADA. So we start working our way back north drifting and checking out different areas with zero luck! Last ditch spot of the day we headed over to boat hole for grins and finally we catch some fish. Ended up w/ 3 trout and 2 reds. Trout caught on pink devils w/ chartreuse jighead and reds caught on rootbeer / glitter gulp.
Off the water around 1:00 and headed home with a decent box of fish for my friend and safely at home w/ the family, a great time fishing, beautiful weather and the thought of being back in 2 weeks to do it all again!!!!!!!!
Next is Blast-N-Cast with a Laguna AND a PINS report 3/20
Cut out of work at noon on Friday and hit the Laguna with a buddy to chunk some Lures. Right off the bat on our first Drift he landed a 26" red and a few minutes after we got his fish in the box I had a 29 1/2" Red hit my spoon. After a few minutes I got it to the boat for a quick pic and then released to fight another day. Picked up lots of dink trout and managed 4 keepers one 16" and three 17" before the wind started howling. Saturday the wife and I and a few buddies their significant others and kids headed down PINS to about the 19 for a little fishing. The surf picked up and was almost too big but I managed to get 2 baits out. The first one got picked up and I let my wife fight it for a few minutes until it spit the bait. She was dissapointed but excited at the same time (it was her first trip down the beach and first shark hookup). The second one ran for a few seconds and then broke me off. We ended up doing more hanging out and cooking after that with a few whiting and bonnet head sharks mixed in and we were headed off the beach by 2pm for another commitment. My wife was really pumped and we are already planning on hitting it up again when we can spend more time and hopefully have better conditions. Hey Sam the rack worked out great thanks. Following are a few pics from the trips.
Kevin with a nice Red
Me and the Red I released
The wife on PINS
And another from Johnny D from 3/17 - 3/20 - For my last three days of vacation, I went out about 8 this morning with two cajun thunder rigs my boss suggested. 20 inch leader with a loop on the hook. Started just south of Pita were some pelicans were working bait, but the wind shifted and I could not get a shallow drift.
Worked back to 4' and picked up a 22" drum.
Went back towards the ICW and worked the flats in 3-4' of water. Picked up a fat 23" trout and two other keepers.
Wind shifted back towards shore and I drifted across the gut towards the second windmill. Two, lets call them guys in a Bluewave, decided to move directly across my drift. As they went across I hooked up a nice 22" trout. They set their boat down and watched me fumble with the net and land the fish. Why do people cut across your drift?
Worked all the way back to Beacroft's hole, but the water was muddy and all I caught were hardheads, skipjack and a small stingray. Went back across the channel and picked up a chunky 17" trout.
Set up was a cajun thunder cork, 20" leader, no split shot and live shrimp on a circle hook. The loop on the hook really worked great today. Most of the quality fish were caught in 3-4' on the east side of the gut between Pita and Beacrofts. Papi came in tonight and we'll be out again Saturday.
I figure with all the great reports I've gotten from this site over the years, I would post a few when I have a good day, maybe ya'll will too.
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2/19 - Upper Laguna - King Ranch Shoreline is producing trout on Soft Plastics. Robert at the Cos-Way tells me that they are catching Specks and Sand Trout during the day and lots of Oversized and keeper Black Drum at night.
2/10 Upper Laguna - Capt. Mike Singleterry - Says the same patterns are holding with the trout and reds as last week. Some action reported on Big Black Drum at the JFK Turnaround By Oso Yakman which measured 43.5"
and was caught on Sealice. Big Uglies are also being reported at the Cos-Way at night.
Hightide Posted this Report from Sunday - It was windy and got windier by the time I quit around 1 PM. All of the fish came from the area South of Pita Island (I don't mind sharing the info). White Gulp didn’t do that good. Most of the bites came on Watermelon, Hot Pink, and Pearl/Pink Gulp Jerk baits.
I caught 7 Trout; 20" & 19.5" were the biggest ones. I also caught 2 Sand Trout.
1/29 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing has been pretty durn good for both trout and redfish in between fronts. Still catchin' trout in the ULM south of Pita in the 3' to 4' of off colored water. The soft plastics in glow/chartruese have been producing, for my clients the best but I have heard reports that solid green and pink and white has also been producing.
Found some redfish last up shallow last week and did real well using solid green sand eels and a 1/8 oz jighead.
Looks like the water is back and more cold fronts on the way so I guess mother nature going to make the next week or two a little more of a challenge.
If we could get about a week of sunshine and south/east winds the shallow flats should start to give up some of those big trout on a regular basis.Mike
North of the JFK 1/29 Romann had this report - Finally got some water back on the flats and since duck hunting season is over, decided to try my Viking decoy sled for fishing.
If you don't like to Jak it, this floater is great for carrying a few extra things on those colder days and is pretty easy to pull on dry land.
Overall, found some nice fish. White gulp seemd to work well with the reds and flounders, but the drum preferred avocado.
Also had plenty of ducks still coming in and mowing the grass
1/15 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - - "Well in between these cold fronts the ULM has been producing some pretty good trout on soft plastics. Deeper water around Pita Island and Beecrofts Hole has been the best areas but the drop-off on the Intralcoastal has been pretty fair on a light north wind and High pressure.
I have still been finding that glow/chartruese soft plastic have been the
most productive for box size trout with a few redfish mixed in.
This time of the year I have the opportunity to get out on the water on my
own and spend sometime looking for those big winter trout. It seems this year the ULM has been pretty productive for the big girls wading the soft bottoms at night and early hours before sunrise. For me my lures of choice have been Catch 2000, Corkey's and Brown Lure's Devil Eyes in pink, chartruese and bone colors.
Redfish are still roaming the flats around the Backyard in the late afternoon, the water has been very good and site casting them has been very productive. We've has our best bite on topwaters and 1/2 oz. gold weedless spoons. "Mike
1/7 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - - Current pattern for trout is back to the flats in about 3' to 4' of water. We have been fishign soft plastics in glow/charts. and green/chart. with a 1/8 oz jighead. There are also a few redfish up in she shallow water in the late
afternoon around Pita Island.
Drum are starting to show up at the Kennedy Bridge turnaround, but only if the wind is blowing. Looks like another cold front due in late Friday or early Saturday. Hopefully shouldn't be cold enough the change the pattern.
Mike
Meanwhile from Nueces Bay, Purefishing took his daughters out last week before school started up again and filed this report:
Thought I would take my girls out fishing a few days ago before they had to go back to school. Nothing beats seeing the smiles on their faces when they are hooked up. I had the younger one chunking a Norton and the older one with a topwater. Talk about a proud daddy. Fish were caught in Nueces.
12/31 Laguna Report - Good reports of trout in the backyard from Pita and King Ranch Shoreline. White gulps were the ticket for Hightide and his group with limits of trout lto 18" ast weekend. Christmas Night saw some good action for trout around the Humble Channel at the local piers.
12/12 IslandMike'r KRS Laguna Report from 12/11 - Long time no see guys. Since duck punishment is on hold til Saturday, I made it out for some fishing with Big Steve. We got out of the canals about 8 and headed south. We started on the KRS, drifting with soft plastics. The water was murky in most of the areas we fished, with some clear patches mixed in. The trout are VERY healthy right now. Every fish has some weight to it, even the small ones. We caught about 8 keepers and decided to move over to the ditch once the wind allowed us to.
Steve caught and released a real nice 24.5 incher
A few minutes later and I had something weird on. I guess since I rarely fish with a jig I don't give myself much of a chance to catch one, a first for me on rod and reel.
And a bit later I finally get a nice 21 incher
An awesome day on the water - all stocked up now :)
And some of the stomach contents - about half had shrimp and the others had pin fish.
12/9 Ironmanstan's Backyard Report 12/7 - We hit the yard early and the water was clear. It was a little nippy at first and then it got hot. It was my first time to fish with "snookered" he is a good fisherman and carries a lot of knowledge when it comes to fish.I will enjoy fishing with him again in the future. Plastics did great today, we hit the trout first and then we found some reds in the flats. The water was extremely clear and the winds were perfect.
first red in the box.
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We both caught flounder, trout,and reds, although the flounder were toss backs , we both slammed. The biggest trout was 24" and the biggest red was 27 1/2 "and it only had 1 eye, probably got it knocked out in a local tavern. We both saw a triple tail while drifting , I have never seen one in the backyard. Well its time to kick back and get ready for work tomorrow .
Ya'll have a good one. IMS12/2 - Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - "The shrimp are still moving to the bay and should continue until the next full moon. The trout and redfish seem to still be with them along the Intralcoastal and in the deeper flats.
I had the pleasure of fishing with frayed (Jeff) and ccbobber (bob) last Friday. After a couple of warm days we found some nice trout on the flats
using Glow/Chartreuse soft plastic with a 1/8 oz jig head. The guys ended up with their limits of trout and one redfish. They did have a fish fry in mind.
Looks like we're going to get a good cold front sometime toward the end of the week. This should put the fish in some deeper water.
Don't forget the Downtown area this time of year. Lot's of trout to be caught there. "Mike
11/19 - 11/17 Upper Laguna Humility Lesson from Capt. Mike Singleterry - "This time of the year I try to take the boss fishing a time or two. She had been bringing up the fact she hadn't been in a while so I figured today was the day. Finally got away from the boat ramp about 7:30a had a long idle thru the no wake zone in the development and finally got to the ditch.
Plenty of birds working, really didn't need to go far south. Stopped, put the trolling motor down and she got ready to go. I had been catching trout on tequlia/chart. sand eels so handed her one. She handed it back and said she wanted a pearl/chart. Tidal Surge soft plastic. I made the mistake of telling her that the sand eel was what the fish wanted and she just looked at me and didn't say a word. We(she) started catching fish right off the bat. After about an hour she asked me if she could get a pearl/chart. out for me. I just looked at her and didn't say anything. In about three hours time we (she) caught our limit of trout up to 23" and a untold number of dinks. She caught 14 keepers and I caught 6. On the way back to the house I asked her what in the world made her use that color and style of bait. She told me that I didn't know everything all the time and besides that is the color and type bait she caught them on last year.
So I'm never taking her fishing againMike
By the way went back out with a friend of mine today and caught our fish on pear/chart. Tidal Surge. "
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11/14 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Shrimp started their migration to Corpus Christi Bay is great numbers after the last cold front. The trout and redfish were in the mix as we fished under the birds for about 3 days. It can get pretty easy this time of the year just look for diving gulls. Try fishing a natural colored shrimp style soft plastic under a mauler or live shrimp under a popping cork. A little advise, don't drive right up to the birds, put your boat in a position so you can drift downwind. I watched a couple of boats driving into the birds and they didn't understand why they were not catching anything. The next front is due in on Saturday and I understand it is going to be a good blow with some lower temps. Try fishing the "ditch" with soft plastics a few days after it passes. The late fall and winter pattern is upon us stay in the deeper water.
10/31 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry- Fishing in both the ULM and on the Kennedy shoreline were pretty good the days I fished over the past week. The water is starting to fall out and the fish don't seem to be as scattered. What has really helped the fishing is the fact the shrimp have started their fall migration out of the Laguna to the bays for the winter.Birds have started working in areas like Emmords
Hole and the East Side south of Bird Island. Something that has really excited me is the number of flounder that have started to show up, it seems like every trip I have made here latley we have caught some really nice ones. I saw a couple of guides the other day that were targeting flounder using live finger mullet, they really had found the mother load with some real nice boxes.
Water clarity has been outstanding everywhere I have been over the past
week.Mike
Cos-Way - Robert says Flounder are the number one catch along with Croaker. The Croaker are not big. Finger Mullet is the preferred bait for the Flounder.
10/16 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The ULM can be on and off this time of the year. I've fished a few days over the past week with mixed results. The days before the moon were real good with limits of trout and some redfish mixed in. We fished around the deeper channels and drop-offs with live piggy perch. The flats in the ULM seem to have slowed down alot. I haven't been seeing the bait
on the flats that I had a couple of weeks before. Oh, by the way if you haven't noticed the tides are back up again. We did get on some trout and redfish yesterday using topwaters and soft plastics but again all the fish were caught on the channel drop-offs early in the morning.By the way the boat ramps at both Clem's and Billings are flooded again as usual due to the high tides so watch out with those nice trucks.
The weekend might be a little tuff, High pressure is going to start sliding
into our area Friday afternoon.Mike
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10/7 Babes on Baffin Tournament - The Fourth Annual Corpus Christi Chapter CCA Babes on Baffin Tournament was held this past Saturday out of Bluff Landing. Over 100 competitors battled it out. Many caught Trout and Redfish though the Flounder we a bit hard to come by. The Lucky Chicks won the Guided Any bait Division. Here is the team show with Tournament Director, John Holmgreen For more info on the winners and pictures visit Babesonbaffin.com
Also on Saturday a bit north Naples2TX went kayak fishing on the back side of Mustang Island and filed this report
Met up with CCRED, Arnulfo and a new addition to the addiction Eric on the backside of Mustang Island for a little yakin. ESE breeze was already starting up when we arrived at 0630, and stayed pretty steady all morning around 10, though increased to 15+ for the paddle back into the wind.
Enough w/ the weather, we all pretty much stuck w/ tops all day, and managed some decent fish among us, including trout to 22" and a red at 26". Lots of dinks today, and the red was the only legal red and ate a dark colored Skitterwalk. CCRED was hot with a Spook Jr. picked by his daughter because it was "pretty". Steve, can I take her to Academy?? Eric nailed the 19" trout that no doubt will help push him over the edge and drive him to buying a kayak, and the few other "must haves"
Morning
22" Trout
Not so good shot of a 26" red
My catch
Cutting Board Shot
10/2 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The extremely high tides had slowed the fishing alot the past couple of weeks but there are still some schools of redfish on the flats between Pureoil Channel and Pita Island. We been catching alot of oversize fish on spoons. The trout have seemed to have moved to the deeper pockets of water and the old gaswell channels. Most of the guides are still using piggy perch to catch trout but I did catch a few on topwaters last week.
9/23 Ironmanstan's Backyard Weekend Report - High water and scatterd pockets of reds and trout. I fished areas around the humble this weekend plastics worked well as there was to much floating grass to make it fun for tossing topwaters, for me that is. The water is really clear which makes it fun and interesting while drifting I always enjoy looking at the bottom while doing so you never know what your gonna see. We saw a few schools of small cownose rays cruising the extra deep waters the tide has remained high since Ike passed through. On Sat. my buddy started the day off with a new reel his first fish was a 251/2 in. fat trout. We ended up with 3 reds averaging 27inches and 6 trout, 5 at 16 a one at 25 1/2. Sun mornings score was 2 reds and 2 trout same area.
Dave, like a few others knew nothing about fishing artificals or the fun that comes along with it. He has done well and now its time to kick him out of the boat and find a new student. ha ha. I have a new student lined up he fished with me today, his first time with artificals, it was slow for him but he is sold on the concept. There will be some special reports in the near future of his fishing with me as I feel I have something to pass along to this young chap.....my experience and patience,and support. I will post a pic of him as soon as he nails his first big red ....i can't wait.9/17 Upper Laguna Report from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Started getting bored today so put the boat in around 11:00a, figured there was no hurry with the moon as big as it was last night.
Water conditions in the ULM were pretty nice in some areas but sandy in others, because of the high winds. Fished the flats around Sulpher with topwaters (Highrollers) and caught redfish. Worked my way down to the north end of Emmords and caught a few small trout and again some more redfish. I didn't find any schools of redfish but there are alot of scattered fish in the clear water around the shoreline.
Fished the edge of the ditch with soft plastics and did pretty good on sand eels between the Bluff Channel and the Kennedy Bridge....did catch one flounder (It came home).
Fished around the Boat Hole before I came in, the current is still moving pretty good under the highlines and around the seaplane ramps.
The best part of the whole afternoon was the floating grass is all but gone
and that really made me happy.
If the wind lays tommrow the water conditions should get back to that pretty green all over.Mike
Hell, it kept me interested enough to go back tommrow. Kinda nice to fish by yourself, it's been a long summer.
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater9/2 Follr's First Laguna Trip from this past weekend - Well finally got out on the first time boat trip in the Laguna. This trip was supposed to be 2 weeks ago but the weather didn't cooperate. All in all I'd say it was an awesome trip! Well worth the wait.
The family and I got out on the water about 8:00. My wife caught a 19" red just off the ICW. Released it back to grow some more. We headed out to the area our CF friend Robul had suggested. It produced a lot and some of the largest croaker I've seen. My wife hooked into the This 19" Black Drum. After a nice little tug of war we put him in the box.
A little later I pulled out an old plastic bag and put it our garbage and recast out to the same area. I worked the bait back to the boat when I hooked something. My rod would bend when I reeled, but when I would stop it would just flutter in the water. Kids we're excited but I though it was another plastic bag or some other trash. When it got closer to the boat it pulled back than as it surfaced I saw the flattie. How's that for trash fish?
Headed back north on the ICW. Riding up and down on some bumpy bay water and fished for a little bit. My son was getting some nibbles. He slowly reeled in the slack and all I heard was his 12lb test Shakespeare combo scream. He was eye wide open and pretty sure of what he had to do.
All we could do was coached him through the whole thing. "Keep your rod up!" "Let him run!" "Okay reel!" "Keep your rod up." He did every little ounce of work pulling the monster in. The strong fish ran 3 times on him. My son was getting pretty tired but kept on the fish. The fish got closer to the boat and ran right under us and circled around the motor. My son followed instructions to get the tip deep under water to clear the prop. The red circled round and laid side up in the water about 10 feet off the back of the motor. The fight was over the 8 year old had won. The 28" red came up along side the boat with little fight left. I put him head first into the net and lifted the red into the boat.
My son was so tired after this he put down his fishing pole and just sat. With a grin from ear to ear you could see he loved every minute of the fight. That was it for the trip. We boxed 3 huge croacker, a sand trout, the black drum, a flattie, and the Red.
If my son wasn't hooked before the trip he's definitley hooked now. Boy is he hooked. The next day he asked, "Hey dad, can we go wade fishing?"
See you guys on the water. We have a fishing addict.8/26 Upper Laguna from Bayslammer -I took the "girls" out for a Saturday evening boat ride, and we decided to soak some bait. Redfish to 34" on the grass flats were eating everything we tossed at them, with a few scattered trout mixed in. Kendall, my three year old daughter landed the first fish, a 15.5" trout. After that fish, she was pre-occupied with playing with the piggy's in the livewell, so Jodie and I proceeded to catch oversize redfish until our arms were sore. My Sunday charter was the same story with reds schooled up on the flats and trout stacked up in the guts with a swift tide and northwest wind. Redfish preferred the bait under a rattling cork and trout liked the bait bounced off the grass using a chatter weight. The Gulp was very effective for the redfish, fished under a mauler.
8/24 Bird Island Report and Fish Fry at Uncle D's from Bigredfish: Went fishing Sunday morning cause everybody planned a fish fry on Sunday but no one told me. So the pressure was on. Caught a Red and some trout before it looked like a boat race coming back from Baffin due to a storm.
With the storm getting close decided to head in. Caught fish 4' water. Water was stained from all the rain.
27 1/2 inch red
Reds and Trout
Uncle D added his catch for the meal
Uncle D grilling his fish.
Grilled Redfish and fried trout pics
Well everyone went home stuffed. Uncle D refused to tell his secret hardhead and skipjack reciepe but we will work on him. Till next time good luck fishing.8/22 Cos-way Bait Stand and Pier - Lots of trout and a few flounder at night. Pinfish, Piggy's and live shrimp available.
8/15 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Been fishing the deeper drop-off all week, seems to be the only constant bite without moving around alot. There has been a real good redfish bite early on piggy perch. For some reason the redfish bite last from sunrise until around 9:00a. I have been lucky enough to catch some limits before the bite shuts down. Trout are still holding on the shallow grass beds and drop-offs also on live piggy perch. Water conditions are still very good on the ULM, very clear in 1' to 2' and green in the deeper areas.
We are still on that August low tide pattern but look fr the water to come back next month.
Those big schools of redfish should start showing up within the next couple of weeks so keep looking as you are running across the flats.
Paying attention to what's going on around you when your on the water can sure put you on some big redfish this time of the year.Mike
8/7 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The ULM has gotten back to normal over the past week. Trout have moved back into 2' to 3' of water. The floating grass has cleared up some with the higher tides. I've still been fishing piggy's and doing good on the shallow grasslines and potholes. Luckly I have had the chance to throw some topwaters this week with some good results early in the morning before the boat traffic got bad. Best results has been on white, bone colored and yellow colors. It hasn't really made any difference which brand topwater.
There are still some schools of redfish roaming the flats but I don't expect them to hang around for very long this weekend with the IFA redfish
tournament in full swing. Best time to get them would be durning the week. There are also some scattered redfish on the spoils south of Bird Island with a few being oversize.
