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[bulldog1935]

Weatherman told us different right up until this morning.
Stevo and I drove down from SA at 330 this morning, stopped for great 5am breakfast at Agave Jalisco in 3 Rivers, and met TexasJim at Palm Harbor - he lives right across the highway.
I told Jim when we quit that he put up a good paddle for an old man.

Actually it was Jim and his neighbor Mike, but Mike turned around at Sandy Point, southern tip of Talley Island

It was calm when we launched and the expected E wind gradually came up to 9-10 kt. About 60 degrees and a light mist on and off, and the water has been warming up to over 60.
AP low tide was 7am, knowing this, the plan was, after a stretch at Sandy Point, to paddle due E to the inside of Little Cut.

The tide was really low, but it let us wade the middle bar at the inside of the cut and cast to the cut bank - we found a ripping tide current coming through the cut from Aransas Bay, and fish right where they ought to be.

Harassed and released a half-dozen tourist trout


this one would measure 15 inches, but the skinniest 15 inches I've ever seen

When the trout got too smart for us, and part of our plan, tried to paddle to the Trout Bayou cut, but there wasn't enough water to get us there (we heard a powerboat digging back there about beer-thirty all the way through noon). At the duck blinds, we retreated on the east wind back toward Talley Is.
Setting up a couple of drifts, we saw redfish and their mudballs on both sides of Talley Is., but they just wouldn't get up to eat.
Lite lunch and a good hometown microbrew at Sandy Point

We talked about the mile paddle back to Little Cut, with the incoming tide lasting through late afternoon, but with no chance for the sun, decided to call it.
And we didn't suffer.

It was a great paddle, a few fish, and we made it through Oakville early enough for a meat sandwich

Ask for the burned ends and you shall receive

[foghorn]

I'd take that for a great day on the water. Great summary.
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[bulldog1935]

I'd do it again, bro - met a new friend from the internet and took him fishing in his own back yard. We always eat well.
Jim's done this before, and has a fast, well-rigged boat.