2022 Salty H20 Thread.... Let's go! Part 1

[bowhntrmatt]

I sold my SCB in November so I'm boatless for the first time in years. Luckily, I have lots of friends with boats so I'm sure there will be plenty of fishing this year. I also have a trip booked with Wayne Davis in Port Mansfield next weekend hoping to catch my PB trout.

[Capt Glenn]

Originally Posted by twright

Looking forward to more time on the water this year. A little bitter/sweet for the upcoming year. My best fishing buddy (youngest son) graduated from college. He told me, "Dad I guess I need to find a job" (even though he worked full time while going to college full time). I told him don't get a "job" make what your passionate about your living. He responded my passion is "salt water, boats, and fishing". I told him that is a big industry for a business major starting out....

He is now employed full time on salary for one of the best private offshore boats in the gulf. He will now spend his time maintaining the boat and fishing offshore tournaments throughout the year. I am proud and excited for him, but will sure miss fishing with him most every weekend in LM and Baffin.

It is funny how life goes. I taught him to fish in the beginning, now he teaches me more about fishing than I could ever imagine. Gonna miss my regular fishing buddy.

Hope all have a great 2022 on the water and I hope to meet and fish with some you one day.

Good for him! Congrats!

[Slew]

Originally Posted by GARY

My last trip (yesterday) of year wasn’t salt, but close enough to coast to count !










Me and my best buddy Kelly (aironeout), childhood friends , all star baseball team, junior golfers , state champs , college roommates , weddings , kids, kind of friend.

Anyway we got Covid for the day and chose to chase crappie on coleto instead of trout and reds.

Kelly has mastered his electronics and spot lock trolling motors and sinking offshore brush piles into a true art. 100% articials on lakes folks say are fished out / don’t have fish.

21 keepers and only 1 throw back. These were some fat girls slabs.


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Dang genius right here!

[Birddog66]

Originally Posted by hammer63

I have recently become retired and am very much looking forward to doing some fishing in the salt. I gave myself a retirement gift - a $25000 repower and such on my 1996 22' Predator. Getting a 200 Suzuki, Bob's jack plate, trolling motor, Garmin GPS, battery tender, batteries and all new tires on the trailer. The rig should be good to go! Have the RV parked in Matagorda right next to a boat ramp. I'm excited to say the least.

Sounds like it Hammer time!

[TexasBob]

I just went down a YouTube rabbit hole- how do you guys kill a fish? I see bats, spikes and just tossing them into the cooler. What did we ever do before the internet made us question everything lol?

[slayr]

I watched a YouTube video on doing an aoudad euro mount….i had to turn it off when the kids making the video didn’t know how to llight the burner for the pot.

[Man]

Originally Posted by TexasBob

I just went down a YouTube rabbit hole- how do you guys kill a fish? I see bats, spikes and just tossing them into the cooler. What did we ever do before the internet made us question everything lol?

If you talking about freshwater and inshore game fish....I toss them in the cooler. If you are talking about larger offshore fish or sharks...they get hit over head or tail slit. If you found a video of someone beating a flounder over the head with a bat...please post link

[LivinADream]

I haven't put my boat in the water in months. After having twins in oct my extra curricular activities have been non existent. I couldn't find what I was after in my normal winter holes, but did fool one decent fish.

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[fish4food]

Fished 1/4 and 1/5

First day I woke up to horrible fog and decided I’d wait for the fog to lift. Well, got out the house to blue bird skies and a light wind.

Got to the area I was going to fish, water was nice and green, much colder than it has been last few weeks. Fishing a gut that was draining. Water was ruching through there faster than I’ve ever seen. Got my but handed to me. Caught 1 trout about 18” and 1 flounder about 16”. Released both.

Tough day in Matagorda Bay - YouTube

Fished with my dad and baby sister near Galveston. Not an area I would fish if I had gone alone. Dad is 63 and isn’t able to wade a soft bottom. Back, and knee issues. So we fished a sand flat with a ditch and bowl in the area. Fished hard from daylight till 1030. I lost a flounder, and so did my little sister.

Went and had lunch at Niko’s on the way back home. Hit up an old spot I used to fish when I was in middle and high school. I missed a bite. Dad lost a fish. Sister caught a rat red about 16”. She was stoked.

[glen]

Water temps dropped over 10’degrees in Rockport this week. I’ve fished twice. Caught a total of 4 fish and all 4 were dinks- 3 trout one flounder. Gotta let the fish get use to it I guess. No more wet wading I guess. I hate waders. May just drift and power pole fish this Winter. Gotta change gears and slow down

[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by slayr

I watched a YouTube video on doing an aoudad euro mount….i had to turn it off when the kids making the video didn’t know how to llight the burner for the pot.

are you on that stuff again?

[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

are you on that stuff again?

On shrooms

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[slayr]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

are you on that stuff again?

Ha! I forgot to quote the post in front of mine….I can’t confirm or deny your accusation.

[panhandlehunter]

Originally Posted by fish4food

Fished 1/4 and 1/5

First day I woke up to horrible fog and decided I’d wait for the fog to lift. Well, got out the house to blue bird skies and a light wind.

Got to the area I was going to fish, water was nice and green, much colder than it has been last few weeks. Fishing a gut that was draining. Water was ruching through there faster than I’ve ever seen. Got my but handed to me. Caught 1 trout about 18” and 1 flounder about 16”. Released both.

Tough day in Matagorda Bay - YouTube

Fished with my dad and baby sister near Galveston. Not an area I would fish if I had gone alone. Dad is 63 and isn’t able to wade a soft bottom. Back, and knee issues. So we fished a sand flat with a ditch and bowl in the area. Fished hard from daylight till 1030. I lost a flounder, and so did my little sister.

Went and had lunch at Niko’s on the way back home. Hit up an old spot I used to fish when I was in middle and high school. I missed a bite. Dad lost a fish. Sister caught a rat red about 16”. She was stoked.

My wife’s shop is across the street from Niko’s. Eat there often. My boat has been in the shop since Thanksgiving, been fishing in the river under lights and deer hunting. Hopefully have it back petty soon so I can start fishing now that deer season is just about wrapped up.

[Man]

Originally Posted by Snowflake Killa

On shrooms

Spent a many a day with my cousins out in the field picking those things....just could never bring myself to drink the tea with the rest of them afterwards.

[Leemo]

You boys better go to the trout meetings

[fish4food]

Originally Posted by Leemo

You boys better go to the trout meetings

It’ll be like every other meeting they have. The decision is already made.

[osochuck]

01/05/22


01/06/22


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[fish4food]

Nice!

[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by Leemo

You boys better go to the trout meetings

I honestly don’t think it will make a bit of difference. I think they have made up their minds and those meeting are nothing more than trying to save a little face and make it seems as though the sportsman have any type of say in the matter.


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[JeffJ]

Havent had the boat in the water since October. We were supposed to go down after Christmas but 7 days in Disney we woke up and werent looking forward to 5.5 hr drive to SPI. Trying to head down for MLK and we are braving Spring Break this year. Hopefully the highschool and college kids wont be out of bed before noon and i can get a little peace and quiet on the bay...

[Leemo]

Originally Posted by fish4food

It’ll be like every other meeting they have. The decision is already made.

The decision was made in September
I’m just stirring the pot.........

[kevin nicholls]

Don't tell anyone but I snuck out of work and went to Sargent. I dropped the boat in and ran down the ICW. I hit a few cuts with moving water. Kept these three, 2- 23's and a 22". Let go a couple 25''ers. A Corky Devil was doing the work today.

[fish4food]

Solid fish Sir!

[Man]

Originally Posted by kevin nicholls

Don't tell anyone but I snuck out of work and went to Sargent. I dropped the boat in and ran down the ICW. I hit a few cuts with moving water. Kept these three, 2- 23's and a 22". Let go a couple 25''ers. A Corky Devil was doing the work today.

Great Job Kevin...suprised you havent tinkered with making a corky yet.

[kevin nicholls]

I'm working on it, you better believe I am haha. I throw them a lot, the classic red head white back (woody).

[fish4food]

Ol woody woodpecker is a favorite in just about any lure I use.

[Quackerbox]

Nicely done Kevin!

I got some blanks,paint and airlines ran to my bench. I'll be trying my hand at airbrush when it warms some

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[Mexico]

Dam good fish right there!

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[slayr]

Solid fish, Kevin!

[Pedernal]

Originally Posted by osochuck

01/05/22


01/06/22


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Nice catch there Oso!! What area are you fishing??

[JES]

Originally Posted by kevin nicholls

Don't tell anyone but I snuck out of work and went to Sargent. I dropped the boat in and ran down the ICW. I hit a few cuts with moving water. Kept these three, 2- 23's and a 22". Let go a couple 25''ers. A Corky Devil was doing the work today.

Always good fish on the East end this time of year. Nice fish. I rarely put in at the Harbor after November.

[kevin nicholls]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Nicely done Kevin!

I got some blanks,paint and airlines ran to my bench. I'll be trying my hand at airbrush when it warms some

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I just bought some blanks from Cedar Run Outdoors. Best prices I've found. I'll let you know if they're any good when I get them.

[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by kevin nicholls

I just bought some blanks from Cedar Run Outdoors. Best prices I've found. I'll let you know if they're any good when I get them.

I found a box on Amazon. Lipless cranks, square bills, stick baits and topwaters. Came with split rings and eyes. Its a bunch of baits and was like 38 bucks

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[kevin nicholls]

Let me know how you like them, that's cheap enough.

[osochuck]

Originally Posted by Pedernal

Nice catch there Oso!! What area are you fishing??

Backside of Mustang, around 5’ ish deep holes with shallow flats around


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[osochuck]

01/17 2 reds & 2 trout only keepers, lots of dinks & rats



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[kevin nicholls]

Nice work Oso. Wasn't there an Oso website where everybody was Oso something.

[osochuck]

Team Oso, gone now


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[Mexico]

Nice work... nothing wrong with that stringer at all!

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[osochuck]

01/19/22 I was banking on a good bite, and it was. Pretty dang windy too.


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[fish4food]

Solid stringer!!!

I got up late today and fished about 2 hours. Took the kayak out to a muddy bay. Peddled into the wind and drifted back across a couple mud/ shell flats. Got skunked.

Got soaked peddling into the wind. But it made it easy to get on the way out. Pretty much drifted to my truck.

[Capt Glenn]

I fished today too. The water was about 18" low. it has come up some but it's still pretty low. Water temp was 57. I drifted the bay with soft plastics and we scratched out a half doz reds, 7 or 8 trout and a drum. It wasn't bad but it wasn't on fire. I had to be back to the dock by noon and the bite really just kicked off around 10:30 or 11. We caught several fish on our last drift. I wish I could have fished another hour or two longer.

[DUKFVR]

Congrats Oso and Glenn!
Getting close to time when shotgun gets 2nd pick behind the rod!

[glen]

Water is out so fished ICW drains yesterday. Not on fire but would catch a fish or two on each drain. Mostly redfish and all but 2 were under 20 inches. Did have some decent trout and had to keep one that ate a soft plastic too deep.

[kevin nicholls]

Nice work Oso.

[bowhntrmatt]

Had a great trip to Port Mansfield. Sunday afternoon was a bit of a grind, but we found about 20 or so good reds in the skinny stuff, no trout.
Monday was on fire! Caught and released over 100 fish between 4 of us. Mostly redfish with a few good trout scattered in.



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[twright]

My fishing buddy (youngest son Dax) got away from the offshore boat and we had a good day in the LLM. Yesterday. Pre-front. Bite was really on about 1pm. Kept a few 20-23 for dinner, 1 flounder and one drum. It's Corky time.

[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by twright

My fishing buddy (youngest son Dax) got away from the offshore boat and we had a good day in the LLM. Yesterday. Pre-front. Bite was really on about 1pm. Kept a few 20-23 for dinner, 1 flounder and one drum. It's Corky time.

Beautiful fish

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[brokeno]

I thought there was no more trout tpwd is fixing to more to a 3 fish limit