decided to put the report under here, since the guy with the Japanese glass flyrod (me) was so busy baiting for the girls with the spinning tackle that I managed to hook up only one (Big) redfish and broke him off
Spent the week at Corpus with my daughter, my girlfriend and her daughter.
We tried kayaking one day - they said the wind was 14 kts - they lied - it was 24 if it was a dime.
We couldn't turn a boat to get it off the landing.
Well, OK, Victoria and I got a boat across the channel for a little hermit crab hunting - 5 minutes of paddling against the wind, and about 30 seconds to get pushed back
So we retreated to the Dairy Queen for chili cheese fries and Butterfinger Blizzards
After a day of rain, we went back to a beautiful day with genuine 8 knot winds.
Gorgeous sunshine, 75, and the water was warm enough for wet wading (though we saw many tourists in waders)
Back to that calm sunny day
Tammie with the first nice fish (of Many)
here - she's fishing my Penn 4300 SS on an 8-1/2' Loomis GL2
and another
and another
Erin with a red that would break her off (Penn 4200SS on a Falcon 5' 1-pc ultralight)
but she did land this big hardhead - I think the biggest I've ever seen
Victoria with a rat red (my favorite Penn 716 on a 6-1/2' Falcon 1-pc)
the reds finally moved off, the girls got bored, and we paddled up a hunger for the next couple of hours
after that, we had dinner at Captain Benny's - don't let the name fool you, it's owned by the mayor of Fulton and completely staffed by her family.
GENUINELY, the best fried seafood I've ever had (everyone else lied about those other places).
We did take photos, but not of the oysters, shrimp and grouper - sorry, we really worked up a hunger ...
Posted: 19 Mar 2010, 11:01 • 