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ziacatcher · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:35 pm Post subject: So much for courtesy

Went out late afternoon and what is going to work some spoil islands. Set up my drift and on about my third cast I hear a boat coming from behind me. I turned and looked and I thought he's definitely not going to be going between me and that island. Well he sure did. A guy in a boat with two women and a Trump flag flapping in the breeze. Goes between me and the island that I was only about 30 yards away from where I caught some reds yesterday. So I kept my cool, went and found some other spoil islands that I was working. Picked up a red and went around for a second drift. At this time I hear the boat start up and I look in front of me and here's the same idiot heading out to the intercoastal. Instead of going back behind me he flies right in front of me almost within casting distance. So much for fishing that spoil. Wound up catching and releasing two slots. I was so frustrated I went in early

SeanHHH · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:51 pm Post subject:

Sorry to hear that Zia. Surprisingly I have not had to get pissed at anyone this weekend. Although late this morning I had to laugh. I pulled a drift from the first spoils NE of the Tropic Isles entry, drifting toward Pita. A boat ended up behind me, about 200 yards. Then a homer comes in and splits the difference.

I have a theory that many of the googans who do not know better are from the new RV park by Tropic Isles. Who knows.

Saturday evening fished solo in the back yard. A 19 red on a red shad sand eel then a 22 on a gulp under a cork. Tried a new Whopper Plopper and got a few dink trout.

This morning, a 19 trout on a gulp. Lost a good fish on the Whopper.

This evening took my daughter and her fiance. She got a keeper trout on a Gulp and he caught a 26 red on a black/chartreuse she dog. No wind, could barely drift, but a nice evening to be out nonetheless. He was getting quite a few blowups on the dog. Not so much on the Whopper that I was tossing.

We shall try again tomorrow.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:59 am Post subject:

curious whether there was a marked cut there - especially for people who don't get to fish every day, that may be the only way he knew to get through.

ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:08 am Post subject:

Not the case bulldog. All flats. I thought he was going to run over a duck blind the 1st time. The second time was wide open for miles

bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 8:12 am Post subject:

thanks.

I really screwed up one day and blew a great spot for two guys.
The low sun in my face caused me to miss Arroyo Colorado, and I turned at the next ICW marker thinking it was Peyton Bay, but it was Rattlesnake Bay.
I found my mistake with the bottom really quickly.
Saw them in their boat 100 yds away, but thought they were fishing the Horse Is cut.
But they were fishing the spoil island cut draining Rattlesnake Bay, and know I blew it for them - we walked the boat right from the edge of that cut back to ICW water.

bd0202 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:35 am Post subject:

Just keep chanting to yourself Zia - "It's the end of the season!" Laughing

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BayFly · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:41 am Post subject:

Hopefully, we have all had our experience like Bulldog's? At least it would make me feel better about mine over at Mud Island area years ago when I turned off the Intercoastal towards St. Jose Island and very near a wader who I thought was at the edge of a cut and a dangerous place to be wading. Like Bulldog, I found mistake with the bottom and very quickly.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:59 am Post subject:

running St. Jo shore one early morning, I thought a wader's head was a crab trap, and was set up to go behind it. Luckily figured it out in time to turn far out well before I got even close to him.
But he and 3 buds were wading shoulder deep.

BayFly · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:19 pm Post subject:

LoneOak · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:00 pm Post subject:

Every once in awhile Karma sets in. Years and years ago dad and I in our 14 ft lone star headed out from goose island to Aransas Bay and a 16 ft whaler comes tearing around us wide open and misses the right turn. The rooster tail of water , mud and shell was a sight to behold. It had to have taken him a long time to extricate himself from that mess.
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:02 pm Post subject:

Salt On the Brain · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:26 pm Post subject:

I will admit to forgetting the unusual wind direction this morning and cutting downwind of a drifting boat this morning, but I was a couple hundred yards away from them.
Then I set up a drift of my own and had another boat pull directly downwind of me and set up a drift between me and the shoreline I was headed for.
I suppose I deserved it.
19 inch trout on a spook jr on my first cast.
21 inch trout on a soft plastic 5 minutes later.
Lost one about 24 inches a few minutes later.
Wind quit and so did the action.
Nice weather, though.
LF
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ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 2:45 pm Post subject:

Wind quit and so did the action.

I went out after lunch and there was absolutely no wind. I got to where I was catching some reds the other day and totally just sat there. Played around couple different spots sitting and decided to head in. Played at my 2 minute honey hole for a while and just as I was going to go home the wind picked up a little bit and I went back to spoil islands and low and behold, wind died again. Was going to head back in but the winds picked up a little bit and I found a limit of barely legal trout, which I released, in dirty water using a gulp under a cork.

5moreminutes · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:02 am Post subject:

I think more often than not we/others sometimes don't know more alternate routes.

I would like to learn a few more cuts into night hawk but the safe route (Yellow cabin) is a go to. And unfortunately people anchor up and fish that cut. You can't go down the middle because it does shallow up.
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hickroots07 · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:09 am Post subject: