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.
7/31 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Things have really slowed down in the ULM since the storm. We just can't seem to get rid of the High Pressure that continuse to hang over the area.
There are still some trout on the deeper grasslines and on the ICW using piggy's. The redfish have been showing up on the flats around Sulpher Road and behind the Yellow Cabin. Most are being caught on gold spoons.
The water conditions in the ULM is great, there is still some floating grass so it's difficult to throw topwaters.
Mike
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater7/28 Upper Laguna Report from Longhorn - My Son-in-law was down from Georgetown this weekend and we went out Saturday and Sunday morning and fished between the Causeway and Pure Oil Channel. We caught 12 trout between 16-20". Fish were caught on New Penny Gulps for the most part.
Bayslammer's Red Report - Redfish are starting to bunch up now, and Bronson, Dad and I found them tailing on shallow shorelines in small pods. The 4" Gulp shrimp in pearl fished on a 1/8 jighead worked best, but we lured some on spook jrs. and cocahoes. The 30" 10.5 lb. oversize red that I caught on a spook jr reminded me what a good pull you get from a big carp.... It's been a while. It was also nice to fish out of a boat other than my own for a change. I should be up and running next weekend, but a day on the water with Dad was great.
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7/18 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - ULM is still HOT....lot's of trout on the grasslines on piggy's. There has also been a few redfish and flounder mixed in. Some pretty good schools of redfish are starting to show up on the shallow flats. They are eatin' gold spoons.
Mike
The API tournament will be held out of Bluff Landing this Saturday so expect lots of traffic. Up north in Rockport the Texas Redfish Series will be held so expect more traffic in the East Flats and Shamrock areas.
7/10 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The rain slowed things down but he says "Back to normal today...Still catching fish with croaker and piggy's in 2' to 3' of water on grassy drop-offs and sand holes.
Mike
6/27 Ironmanstan's Backyard Report - I took the day off, what better day than a Friday. Took my bride to breakfast went home hooked up the yacht and headed to Laguna shores marina. The guys told me the fish were on the other side of Pita Island. So I told them I'd be back by 9 am they replied "whatever". So thats where I pointed my bow as soon as I got there I noticed the mullet were exploding everywhere I'm talking big booms. My little friend said "this is the spot". First cast landed a 231/2 in. trout. The reds didnt want to play so with the help of my friend I was able to land a 27 7/8 red and then a 27 in. That was fine with me ....back at the dock at 9:15.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Sorry little friend, its just never your day.
The red with no dot has 2 on the other side. neat huh?
As always...I LIKE MINE FRIED.....with fries please. Now where's that Capt. Morgans....ahhhh there you are.6/26 Robul's Laguna Report - Fortunatly at the last minute I got off work so I could spend some time on the water with my good friends..
This time around Dave caught most of the fish but we still had a good day. I ended up with 3 reds 2 of them being right under slot then one that was 26" and 6 lbs.
Dave ended up with 3 fish ranging from 22 " - 26"
Cody caught 1 red about 26" a big huge stingray and many o Arius felis
Dave out there Throwin the shedog
First Keeper of the day goes to Cody
Second Keeper of the Day goes to Dave.. Notice me in the background my pole folds when dave photos his..
This is the one I landed right after Dave's first
Daves Second Red
Daves Third Red
I was sloshing around the flats myself and I happen to see a Very large turtle that Looked dead.. I called the Marine Biologist over ( Dave ) to take a look. After Closer inspection the turtle was indeed alive. He brought it over to the boat to Make sure everything was OK because it was kind of leaned over to one side. Dave wasnt for sure but the turtle was Ill. We snapped off a couple of pics and Dave was going to call the sick turtle in when he got home with its location so a Professional could check it out. He said it was probably many many years old and might just be old age..
heres some pics
6/18 Spotted Red - Amie Clanton caught this 27 and 7/8 inch Redfish with over 650 spots fishing 6/17 in the Upper Laguna Madre with Captain Alan White.
This one is going to the taxidermist.
6/16 ULM Report 6/12 - 6/14 from Capt. Singleterry - Well for those of you who don't mind throwing bait and catching limits
of trout the KRS been real good the past 6 days. We have been fishing the deeper grass and sand hole with outstanding results.
The water conditions are pretty good or at least alot better than they were
a couple of weeks ago. It seems the trout are moving to the south from
Corpus Christi Bay as I have found them a little further south each day.
Lots of fish in the 17" to 23" range with a good fish now and again.
I've been using croakers and piggy's for the best results. The next three days the bite should be later in the morning because of the full moon
but should get back to being an early bite by the weekend.
I've got the next three days off!
Mike www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater6/15 Father's Day with Ironmanstan and Tyler - We shoved off from the laguna shores marina just as old man sun was waking up. The winds calmed down just for the dads today after blowing for what seem like an eternity. The water was clear almost everywhere with scattered patches of floating grass. We started off throwing topwaters with insant pops and swirls, and splashes but no real takers. So we started throwing plastics and that was the ticket so was a little gold spoon.
Wham bam fish on!
Get the net, get the net!
took him long enough to get the net.
its whats for dinner.
happy fathers day thats what i'm talking about.
ditto......
Its was my first trip with TT he fishes hard, and is great company in the boat,what more can i say.6/12 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The past 3 weeks have been absolutely great in the ULM. Water conditions are starting to get alot better and it seems as the water gets green the
trout have gotten hungry.
Start fishing the drop-offs along the Intralcoastal, Beecrofts Hole,
and south of Bird Island. I have been using live croaker and catching limits early, but I have heard reoprts of some nice trout caught on swim-
baits...pumpkinseed/chartruese.
There have been some redfish on the flats around Sulpher Road and
the Kennedy Shoreline, if you want to travel that far.
Mike
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www.texasfishingguides.org/topwater6/10 Upper Laguna Solo Report from IslandMike - After sleeping in a little, I decided to make my way out for some drifts not far from the house. The water was very clear in some areas and a little murky in others, but I did not see any water that I didn't want to fish. Threw a mix of topwaters and spoons.....surprise surprise......gold was the choice today. I had to work for em. I threw some really long drifts and was able to pick up some nice ones. Learned how to use the timer my camera so even though I was alone I got a decent pose pic for you guys, which I thought would be cool.
First red. 6lbs and all muscle. Must have taken me about 6-7 min to land it.
And the release.
#2 was a little over 4.5lbs
Had a nice little trout too.
And this is what some of the water looked like.
I also had an undersize red and a few skippies. Not a bad few hours. All fish released.6/8 The Backyard South from Ironmanstan - We left the dock at 0600, idled out past the Kennedy causeway headed south. In just the wink of an eye the 250 e-tec had us up on top an we were blasting through the water like a hot knife in sweet butter. The chop was lite and the morning air felt good and the sweat was quickly dried from our brows. After a more than brisk ride it was anchors aweigh and tite lines for the rest of the morn. The crew was a routy bunch consisting of, IMS, Drake, Texmike, and the good with a touch of bad Capt.Mike, better known as just Capt.Mike. OH,and lets don't forget that swashbuckling Captain Morgan he was there onboard in spirit form. All the trout were caught on croaker which was fine with me especially since i'm a lure tosser. It was nice to just kick back and fish and have a good time. I can't wait to do it again.
This frigate bird was good company and fun to watch but hard to photograph.
what a crew
git er done.
a real hungry crew here but very respectful.
28 a good box of fish tacos.
Laguna Madre Huevos wheres the bacon an biscuits?
The final results game over @11:59 home in time for lunch.5/6 - Upper Laguna and Land Cut Pics from Capt. Bill Sheka - The bait of choice has been croaker. Here is Colonel Pete Perkins with a Landcut Trout
And Don Lewis with another nice one.
Brittney Russel with another solid Land Cut Trout.
And finally P.J. Pfeiffer and Capt Bill Sheka with a 29" Trophy from the Laguna.
4/9 Robul's Upper Laguna Report via the message board - Woke up at 5 am to hit the water for a few hours before work. All the fishing was done on the north side of causeway. We hit up a few places and got a few keeper drum.
1-17 "
1-20"
1-24"
I hooked into a larger upper slot drum probably close to 28" got her to the boat after a good littlle fight and got the hook came out right at the boat. I planned on letting it go anyhow so no bigggy
Probably got about 10 rat reds most 15-18" all released.
Heres the only pic we snapped off..
It was pretty clowdy with a strong se wind but still a good morning on the water. We searched the flats for some reds but had no luck with that..
4/3 Laguna Report via Capt. Bill Sheka Jr. - Fishing has been good with catches of trout and redfish and the trout spawn is on and looks like it is on time. Totally different than last year. The tides are still super low but it has not been too much of a problem other than trying to be careful on running aground or over some of the rocks. The tide has been below normal for over 4 weeks and we should see an increase in water level soon. Shrimp are also showing up and some birds working over the schools pushing them to the surface. Here is a picture of my clients from yesterday with 30 trout , one red . Pictured left to right is Dwight Stone, Kevin King Jr. Capt. Bill Sheka Jr., Kevin King all from Austin.
3/27 Baffin Bash this weekend 3/28 and 3/29 at Bluffs Landing Upper Laguna Report from 3/25 from - All we needed was to get a little water back in the ULM. Lots of trout today on soft plastics. My clients caught fish from Bird Island all the way back just off Laguna Shores. The only bait we threw was a glow/chartreuse Tidal Surge tail with a 1/8 oz jighead. Caught fish in 2' of water to around 4' of water. The females were all brite in color and did have eggs, so it the weather holds we should have some real good fishing coming up.
They did keep their 10 fish but released alot more.
The water conditions are pretty good from Emmords back to the Boat Hole
despite the 30 mph winds.Bayslammer caught these nice reds 3/27 prefishing for this weekend's tournament. He says the wind has slowed the fishing. Don't tell these reds that!
3/20 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The wind has kept most boats tied up this week altough today the weather was outstanding and the fish were on the bite. The birds have been working in Emmords and south of Bird Island on the flats trout fishing was pretty good today with some good numbers of females being caught. Most of the fish were caught on live shrimp under a popping cork and a glow/chartreuse soft plastic rigged with a 1/8 oz jig head. The brown shrimp are moving to Corpus Christi Bay and are thick under the Kennedy Bridge at night, with this and some warmer weather fishing should really start to pick up. On a brite note, yesterday a friend of mine fished Lake Padre. Using cut bait and live shrimp. For you that enjoy catching and eating Golden Croaker...there here. He had a box of croaker from 1 /2 to 3 lbs. in about an 1 hour. I haven't been down south in a week or so but talked with a couple of guides that burned the gas to go today. I was told the water conditions were pretty bad, mostly turned over water from the high winds. those of you looking for the Big Ugly...Sharon at Clems said there are still a few big drum being caught off the pier late at night. There has also been some slot drum coming from the Comperta Pass area in Baffin on live shrimp around the deep rocks.
