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john's addicted Horse Mullet
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 5:25 am Post subject: Anyone seen a croaker flag? |
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Is it time? I'm itching for monster surf trout... _________________ 1.2.3,4,5. once i caught a fish alive.
6.7.8,9,10. so i let him go again. |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Hey John they're too small
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gdavis Member White Shrimper Boot Club

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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 10:15 am Post subject: |
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| How do you fish them in the surf? Are there certain areas you concentrate? 2nd bar? etc... |
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john's addicted Horse Mullet
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hey speckled.trout!!! I've missed our early morning conversations down at Clem's. I'll be down a couple of days after finals are finished up here in Tyler and look forward to a month straight of die hard fishing. I've been in college up here, but would rather be drinking coffee and listening to your fishing advice every morning. You've taught me, and my Dad(Big Ed) a lot over the years. Maybe you could teach a class at university. I'd major in it. _________________ 1.2.3,4,5. once i caught a fish alive.
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john's addicted Horse Mullet
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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gdavis... I fish them in the wade and first gut with as little weight as possible on a Carolina rig. Use circle hooks and open the spool when you feel the hit...
Count to five and then start reeling in the big girls... This 5 fish limit will sure save me some money...Only 1 dozen croaker instead of 3. _________________ 1.2.3,4,5. once i caught a fish alive.
6.7.8,9,10. so i let him go again. |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 30 Aug 2012 Posts: 1190
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| john's addicted wrote: | | Hey speckled.trout!!! I've missed our early morning conversations down at Clem's. I'll be down a couple of days after finals are finished up here in Tyler and look forward to a month straight of die hard fishing. I've been in college up here, but would rather be drinking coffee and listening to your fishing advice every morning. You've taught me, and my Dad(Big Ed) a lot over the years. Maybe you could teach a class at university. I'd major in it. |
Thanks John, I'm looking forward to visiting with you again, The croaker are still very small, I think it's going to be a couple more weeks until we see some consistent fishable ones.
See you soon.
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Matt Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 418 Location: Port Aransas
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Have not seen any croaker flags flying in Port A... _________________ I'd rather be fishing |
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bbradUSMC
Joined: 04 May 2015 Posts: 1 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Talked to red dot and they said they are still too small as stated earlier in the thread and that they expect to see them in a week or two. |
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RiPPin LiPS Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 11 Mar 2012 Posts: 945 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Plenty of em in Aransas @ Conn Brown. But about 99.9% of em are already taken. Most of the guides are reserving em before they even hit the tank. But they do have better size on em then in the corpus area... Still a lil small in my opinion though. _________________ Come out & gig some flounder with Straight to The Point Guide Service!! http://floundergiggin.com/ for more info
"While everyone else is asleep, we're out giggin em DEEP"!! |
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john's addicted Horse Mullet
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the updates everybody. _________________ 1.2.3,4,5. once i caught a fish alive.
6.7.8,9,10. so i let him go again. |
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speckled.trout Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2015 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hey John.....Sharon's (Clems)croaker flag went up today.
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gdavis Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 20 Jun 2009 Posts: 520 Location: the bluff
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Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| john's addicted wrote: | gdavis... I fish them in the wade and first gut with as little weight as possible on a Carolina rig. Use circle hooks and open the spool when you feel the hit...
Count to five and then start reeling in the big girls... This 5 fish limit will sure save me some money...Only 1 dozen croaker instead of 3. |
I've always wondered if I needed to hit the second bar or just fish the first wade gut. I'll be trying that this year as well. Thanks for the heads up. |
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The MATTador Pony Mullet

Joined: 07 Sep 2013 Posts: 52
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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My thing with croaker is that they're dead after 1 cast. Unless I have been hooking em wrong this whole time. Through the tail or up through the lips right? _________________ Wishin' I was Fishin'... |
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ltorna1 Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The MATTador wrote: | | My thing with croaker is that they're dead after 1 cast. Unless I have been hooking em wrong this whole time. Through the tail or up through the lips right? |
That's why you buy 20 dozen... _________________ ...if my boss ever finds this forum I'll be unemployed... |
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The MATTador Pony Mullet

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Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 12:14 am Post subject: |
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That's why you buy 20 dozen... |
That's why I catch my own bait. Them sabiki rigs work wonders for piggies and small whiting _________________ Wishin' I was Fishin'... |
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