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rtp · 04-26-2018, 11:45 AM

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We got a couple needlefish yesterday.

natvet · 04-26-2018, 11:55 AM

Six total tuna. Biggest in front was over 120lbs
Venice La on the 24th

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Sparkles · 04-26-2018, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by natvet

Six total tuna. Biggest in front was over 120lbs
Venice La on the 24th

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Nice
Who’d y’all go with?

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ace340cs · 04-26-2018, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by PBUCKSHOT

Drove down to the Valley and took one of my nephews out for a wade yesterday. Hit a little spot South of Port Mansfield. Tons of trout on the drop off during low tides. Chunked white / pink Gulp at them. Took us about an hour to fill up the stringer.
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Great fish!!! going to try my luck on Friday ,also @ mansfield

Killer · 04-26-2018, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by hog smacker

We got a couple needlefish yesterday.

Those sure are fat needlefish!!!

PBUCKSHOT · 04-26-2018, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ace340cs

Great fish!!! going to try my luck on Friday ,also @ mansfield

Bunch of reds by Green Island. Insane!

junior · 04-26-2018, 01:39 PM

I'm wanting to take my son down to the coast Memorial day weekend and camp on the beach, do some shore fishing, and some fishing from the kayaks out past the big waves. What are some good areas to look at for this? Anyone wanna try to meet up? It'll be our first time to try this, and I'm wanting to learn!

natvet · 04-26-2018, 02:01 PM

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Nice
Who’d y’all go with?

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Billy from Mexican gulf

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miket · 04-26-2018, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by AtTheWall

Offshore Amberjack trip set for the opener in May. Red Snapper opener good on 1 June. Gonna be a ton of offshore trips this season!

Yall need a couple of guys to fill in again for snapper trips or whatever, let me know. Had a great time with yall year before last. Ready to get back out there!

PBUCKSHOT · 04-26-2018, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by miket

Yall need a couple of guys to fill in again for snapper trips or whatever, let me know. Had a great time with yall year before last. Ready to get back out there!

x2!

Poco · 04-26-2018, 03:00 PM

Me and Chris (Stickman) had a good outing hitting the Port A rocks yesterday evening. Caught us some monster jacks and a couple of nice kings along with many big mackerel. All our fish were caught on big shallow divers.

This weekend we’ll be using them jacks to try and win a shark tourney.

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Poco · 04-26-2018, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by hog smacker

We got a couple needlefish yesterday.

That's awesome bud. I saw your deckhand on the rocks Wednesday. He said you guys were going. Glad it worked out.

Ray

Sparkles · 04-26-2018, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by miket

Yall need a couple of guys to fill in again for snapper trips or whatever, let me know. Had a great time with yall year before last. Ready to get back out there!

Oh we will be fishing
1/2 the reason I got on that lease was to be closer to the gulf

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miket · 04-26-2018, 04:50 PM

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Oh we will be fishing
1/2 the reason I got on that lease was to be closer to the gulf

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Brazos Hunter · 04-26-2018, 06:36 PM

New navigation system installed as well as new navi lights and wiring. Next weekend we will fish POC and I am super ready!

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SCREAMINREELS · 04-26-2018, 10:55 PM

This is the first weekend ive been of in a while that the weather looks good. the low wind looks awesome. im heading to sargent after work tomorrow for the weekend and im going to start as early as i can manage to knock the day out. want to have a line wet before dark

will be fishing east matty, cut, creek, possibly surf. wherever i can find them. either way should be a beautiful weekend

makotex · 04-27-2018, 09:24 AM

Just got back from Florida Keys a couple days ago. Non stop Tarpon action! Was a trip of a lifetime!

Brazos Hunter · 04-27-2018, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SCREAMINREELS

This is the first weekend ive been of in a while that the weather looks good. the low wind looks awesome. im heading to sargent after work tomorrow for the weekend and im going to start as early as i can manage to knock the day out. want to have a line wet before dark

will be fishing east matty, cut, creek, possibly surf. wherever i can find them. either way should be a beautiful weekend

Sounds like you have a great trip planned, enjoy!

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Quackerbox · 04-27-2018, 01:00 PM

Took a dip in the surf this morning. There wasn't a bunch of them but what was there was big. I caught two at 25 +

Each of the two guys I was with caught one in the same range. Warm up session for Chandelure Islands next week

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Tx_Wader · 04-27-2018, 02:23 PM

Me, my son and a friend of ours did pretty well in West Matty the other day.

panhandlehunter · 04-27-2018, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Took a dip in the surf this morning. There wasn't a bunch of them but what was there was big. I caught two at 25 +

Each of the two guys I was with caught one in the same range. Warm up session for Chandelure Islands next week

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Same here. Water was a little chilly but beautiful, lots of bait, not much for trout. I caught one that was around 24", and a few smacks. Beat the hell out of working though.

marshhunter · 04-27-2018, 08:06 PM

Anyone going in the morning? I’ll be launching out of palacios, and running across to the south shoreline.
I’ll be in a 21’ Flatscat

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kyle1974 · 04-27-2018, 08:06 PM

Been hammering on those endangered snapper when weather permits. I’ve been fishing some great state water spots way down south. I hit a few spots for vermillion this week and caught (released) some sows in about 250 feet of water. Can’t wait for federal season to open.

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Quackerbox · 04-27-2018, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by panhandlehunter

Same here. Water was a little chilly but beautiful, lots of bait, not much for trout. I caught one that was around 24", and a few smacks. Beat the hell out of working though.

I thought I saw your truck rolling down the beach around 11?

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panhandlehunter · 04-27-2018, 08:36 PM

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I thought I saw your truck rolling down the beach around 11?

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Yep. That was me. I was trying to hang around until the tide turned hoping the bite would turn on, but I got called in to work so I had to boogie.

Quackerbox · 04-27-2018, 08:40 PM

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Yep. That was me. I was trying to hang around until the tide turned hoping the bite would turn on, but I got called in to work so I had to boogie.

We fished till 1230 or so and it never turned. The fish did seem to pick up a hair but as you know it was a grind today.

We finally learned the trout seemed to hang out under those huge rafts of mullet

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panhandlehunter · 04-27-2018, 08:46 PM

Yeah that's where I caught my trout. There was millions of little 3/4" menhaden with birds crashing on them, I figured there would have been fish with them but there was nothing. I think the water is still just a little too cold. Another couple weeks and it'll be on.

BLACKFINTURKEY · 04-28-2018, 03:45 AM

About to leave the house for a day tripper, me and a buddy will
Yak the upper laguna. Hopefully we will snag some.

txoutdoorsman24 · 04-28-2018, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by BLACKFINTURKEY

About to leave the house for a day tripper, me and a buddy will
Yak the upper laguna. Hopefully we will snag some.

What the what bro. Lemme know when you guys are gonna do another day trip. I’ll tag along

ttaxidermy · 04-28-2018, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by panhandlehunter

Same here. Water was a little chilly but beautiful, lots of bait, not much for trout. I caught one that was around 24", and a few smacks. Beat the hell out of working though.

This was exactly my day in the surf between access 5 and the pass. 1 trout 24" at 10:00.. Caught it on a Mirrordine. Junked everything in my box.. Gave up at 11:30. Talked to several throwing live shrimp and they were skunked..

I'm thinking about hitting it again here shortly..

panhandlehunter · 04-28-2018, 03:14 PM

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This was exactly my day in the surf between access 5 and the pass. 1 trout 24" at 10:00.. Caught it on a Mirrordine. Junked everything in my box.. Gave up at 11:30. Talked to several throwing live shrimp and they were skunked..

I'm thinking about hitting it again here shortly..

We must have been pretty close. I usually fish down by the cars when I fish SS. I had to work today, going to East Matty in the morning. I'll wait it for it to warm up a bit before I try it again.

Mexico · 04-28-2018, 03:27 PM

Good luck boys, hit west Matty on Wednesday evening and 3rd cast out of the boat a 22 inch trout, last one caught but the redfish were stacked on top of each other. Caught 15 or so easy limit, left them biting.

marshhunter · 04-28-2018, 07:55 PM

Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper.

I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua
Some pics from today.

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Williams4298 · 04-28-2018, 08:41 PM

My uncle got a Texas slam today. Limit of trout, 2 reds, and a flounder.

BLACKFINTURKEY · 04-28-2018, 08:42 PM

We had 2 limits of reds and 2 trout today.

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Pedernal · 04-28-2018, 08:54 PM

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We had 2 limits of reds and 2 trout today.

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That’s awesome!!! Was that down at bird island??

hog smacker · 04-28-2018, 11:01 PM

We got another sword today.

We also lost a big one at the boat after a 4 hr fight, but we will get it next time.

trevormcgee · 04-28-2018, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by marshhunter

Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper.

I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua
Some pics from today.

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I’m glad it wasn’t only me today. I caught a few whiting in the surf

. Waded in Oso bay for about two hours after that, not even a nibble.

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BLACKFINTURKEY · 04-29-2018, 10:45 AM

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That’s awesome!!! Was that down at bird island??

Yes sir! It was tough fishing bites were far and few between.

m

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BLACKFINTURKEY · 04-29-2018, 10:46 AM

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What the what bro. Lemme know when you guys are gonna do another day trip. I’ll tag along

No problem I’ll let you Know. I plan on hitting it on about 2 weeks.

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BLACKFINTURKEY · 04-29-2018, 12:37 PM

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Yes sir! It was tough fishing bites were far and few between.

m

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Few more

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hopedale · 04-29-2018, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by marshhunter

Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper.

I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua
Some pics from today.

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With the windy conditions, was the water dirty most places you fished?

Also, what direction was the wind from, and how strong were the sustained winds?

Jamesdad07 · 04-29-2018, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by marshhunter

Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper.

I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua
Some pics from today.

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It was a grind for me on Friday in east matty. Reds were no problem, but the trout were tough. Finally caught a couple yellamouths just after dark

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Mexico · 04-29-2018, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by marshhunter

Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper.

I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua
Some pics from today.

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I know that exact spot, pipeline cut is what we call it. Surprised you didn't do well, I fished just west of there Wednesday and the reds were on top of each other... easy limits... trout was another story. Only picked up one..

marshhunter · 04-29-2018, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by hopedale

With the windy conditions, was the water dirty most places you fished?

Also, what direction was the wind from, and how strong were the sustained winds?

The wind picked up out of the south/south west at about 10-15 with gusts to about 20.

Up shallow <1-2 you could see bottom, over that it was green but the wind had it churned up

I tried trolling and doing some sight casting just before cotton, but didn’t see anything but bait. There was an absolute crapton of bait. Just no redfish.

Went out today and caught two reds in carancahua, put one in the box at a whopping 20 1/8”. Gonna eat good on the grill one night this week.

marshhunter · 04-29-2018, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Mexico

I know that exact spot, pipeline cut is what we call it. Surprised you didn't do well, I fished just west of there Wednesday and the reds were on top of each other... easy limits... trout was another story. Only picked up one..

That’s what we call it as well. I was going to attempt to run a bit further in, but the tide was a bit too low. There was a ton of mullet and bait fish in there.

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marshhunter · 04-29-2018, 03:16 PM

Some pics from today

Got the boat washed and put under the house. Ready for next time. Hopefully in 2 weeks I’ll be back. Might try to venture to POC.
I bet it was an absolute mad house there this weekend with the gorgeous weather and the crawfish fest. Heck on Saturday the ramp in palacios looked about like froggies, so I can only imagine.

Also I wet waded the entire weekend and the water felt dang good. Definitely glad I didn’t bring the waders.

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Mexico · 04-29-2018, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by marshhunter

Some pics from today

Got the boat washed and put under the house. Ready for next time. Hopefully in 2 weeks I’ll be back. Might try to venture to POC.
I bet it was an absolute mad house there this weekend with the gorgeous weather and the crawfish fest. Heck on Saturday the ramp in palacios looked about like froggies, so I can only imagine.

Also I wet waded the entire weekend and the water felt dang good. Definitely glad I didn’t bring the waders.

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You guys see any sharks? Group that waded close go there Wednesday got robbed 2 or 3 times by the men in gray suites...

Quackerbox · 04-29-2018, 04:26 PM

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Some pics from today

Got the boat washed and put under the house. Ready for next time. Hopefully in 2 weeks I’ll be back. Might try to venture to POC.
I bet it was an absolute mad house there this weekend with the gorgeous weather and the crawfish fest. Heck on Saturday the ramp in palacios looked about like froggies, so I can only imagine.

Also I wet waded the entire weekend and the water felt dang good. Definitely glad I didn’t bring the waders.

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What time should I be there?

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04-27-2018, 09:24 AM	#218
makotex Six Point Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: La Vernia Tx Hunt In: Menard for now	FL Tarpon Just got back from Florida Keys a couple days ago. Non stop Tarpon action! Was a trip of a lifetime! Attached Images

04-27-2018, 02:23 PM	#221
Tx_Wader Ten Point Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: El Campo Hunt In: Jackson County and Utopia	Me, my son and a friend of ours did pretty well in West Matty the other day. Attached Images

04-28-2018, 11:01 PM	#238
hog smacker Six Point Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Aransas Pass, TX Hunt In: aransas pass, goliad, van	We got another sword today. We also lost a big one at the boat after a 4 hr fight, but we will get it next time. Attached Images

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04-26-2018, 11:55 AM	#202
natvet Four Point Join Date: Apr 2014	Six total tuna. Biggest in front was over 120lbs Venice La on the 24th Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using Tapatalk

04-26-2018, 01:39 PM	#207
junior Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Killeen,Tx Hunt In: Bell,Williamson,San Saba Counties	I'm wanting to take my son down to the coast Memorial day weekend and camp on the beach, do some shore fishing, and some fishing from the kayaks out past the big waves. What are some good areas to look at for this? Anyone wanna try to meet up? It'll be our first time to try this, and I'm wanting to learn!

04-26-2018, 03:00 PM	#211
Poco Pope & Young Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Texas Hunt In: Webb County	Me and Chris (Stickman) had a good outing hitting the Port A rocks yesterday evening. Caught us some monster jacks and a couple of nice kings along with many big mackerel. All our fish were caught on big shallow divers. This weekend we’ll be using them jacks to try and win a shark tourney. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-26-2018, 04:57 PM	#215
BrianL Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TX Hunt In: TX

04-26-2018, 06:36 PM	#216
Brazos Hunter Pope & Young Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Brazos County Hunt In: Calhoun County	New navigation system installed as well as new navi lights and wiring. Next weekend we will fish POC and I am super ready! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-26-2018, 10:55 PM	#217
SCREAMINREELS Pope & Young Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Brenham, SHNF	This is the first weekend ive been of in a while that the weather looks good. the low wind looks awesome. im heading to sargent after work tomorrow for the weekend and im going to start as early as i can manage to knock the day out. want to have a line wet before dark will be fishing east matty, cut, creek, possibly surf. wherever i can find them. either way should be a beautiful weekend

04-27-2018, 01:00 PM	#220
Quackerbox Pope & Young Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Magnolia Hunt In: The woods	Took a dip in the surf this morning. There wasn't a bunch of them but what was there was big. I caught two at 25 + Each of the two guys I was with caught one in the same range. Warm up session for Chandelure Islands next week Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

04-27-2018, 08:06 PM	#223
marshhunter Ten Point Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Pineland, Tx; Where the ducks are	Anyone going in the morning? I’ll be launching out of palacios, and running across to the south shoreline. I’ll be in a 21’ Flatscat Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-27-2018, 08:06 PM	#224
kyle1974 Pope & Young Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Bluff, America Hunt In: McMullen / Refugio	Been hammering on those endangered snapper when weather permits. I’ve been fishing some great state water spots way down south. I hit a few spots for vermillion this week and caught (released) some sows in about 250 feet of water. Can’t wait for federal season to open. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-27-2018, 08:46 PM	#228
panhandlehunter Pope & Young Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Sweenyish Hunt In: Brazoria, Matagorda & Medina Counties	Yeah that's where I caught my trout. There was millions of little 3/4" menhaden with birds crashing on them, I figured there would have been fish with them but there was nothing. I think the water is still just a little too cold. Another couple weeks and it'll be on.

04-28-2018, 03:45 AM	#229
BLACKFINTURKEY Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Marion,Texas Hunt In: Marion,Texas	About to leave the house for a day tripper, me and a buddy will Yak the upper laguna. Hopefully we will snag some.

04-28-2018, 03:27 PM	#233
Mexico Pope & Young Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Clear Lake Tx Hunt In: Old Mexico, Centerville Tx	Good luck boys, hit west Matty on Wednesday evening and 3rd cast out of the boat a 22 inch trout, last one caught but the redfish were stacked on top of each other. Caught 15 or so easy limit, left them biting.

04-28-2018, 07:55 PM	#234
marshhunter Ten Point Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Pineland, Tx; Where the ducks are	Did anyone else have to grind it out today? I fished from 9am till 4pm in West matagorda. Didn’t pull a fish out of the water. Gamewardens pulled in behind me at the ramp in palacios. Said that the only people they checked who had fish, had gone offshore and caught some snapper. I’ll be back at it again in the morning. It’s still blowing pretty good here, doubt I’ll make the run to south shore line again. If the wind doesn’t lay tonight I’ll be fishing around carancahua Some pics from today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-28-2018, 08:41 PM	#235
Williams4298 Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2016 Hunt In: Iraan, Quanah, Navarro	My uncle got a Texas slam today. Limit of trout, 2 reds, and a flounder.

04-28-2018, 08:42 PM	#236
BLACKFINTURKEY Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Marion,Texas Hunt In: Marion,Texas	We had 2 limits of reds and 2 trout today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-29-2018, 03:16 PM	#248
marshhunter Ten Point Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Tomball Hunt In: Pineland, Tx; Where the ducks are	Some pics from today Got the boat washed and put under the house. Ready for next time. Hopefully in 2 weeks I’ll be back. Might try to venture to POC. I bet it was an absolute mad house there this weekend with the gorgeous weather and the crawfish fest. Heck on Saturday the ramp in palacios looked about like froggies, so I can only imagine. Also I wet waded the entire weekend and the water felt dang good. Definitely glad I didn’t bring the waders. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk