crazy_cajun02

Well we went out sat morning in hopes of chasing some birds as my padna had been on hot friday boxing 27 trout. We hit the flats at first light waiting for the featery friends to get active and found our redfish still holding on our flat, boxing one at 24" and releasing one at 20" and 2 trout at 15". Birds popped up so away we eent to the ZOO. first group we nailed a perfect approach and had the trout schooling right to us, a perfect set to catch at least 6 or 7 before they busdted. fisrt cast had a double hook up one in the box one measured 15" so i released him. then we look up and some bozo is creeping right up the middle of the school from the downwind side, and bust them up......not to mention all they accomplished were backlashes............from then on it was wither barny's to contend with or the schools were just flat out running the trolling motor. after releasing the 10th 15" trout we gave up on the fiasco and went back to the redfish. We ended up the day with 6 redfish 21-24" 2 more keeper thrown in the boat fishing with us and 2 trout 16". We released an additional 4 redfish each that were 19 1/2 to 20". An awesome day for fishing purely with artificial.

I just use the noodles without the pvc. If you don't get precise amount of weight in there they don't flag right. Also remeber all your jugs and noodles have to white and have to have all of your information written on them. Depends on the fish your targetting also. If you have a big 50+ pounder you gonna loose that noodle, most use at least 4 " to 5" foam. I had some reflective vinyl left over from a sign so i wrapped all my noodles in it so it looks white and reflects in the spotlight. I run the noodles on a 15ft line with 2 or 3 hooks and a railroad spike as a weight. All my jugs are are on 50ft lines and my hooks are rigged on trotline clips so i can regulate the the drops and also if there is a big fish i can get the hooks off and don't worry about the fish ripping them through my hands.

Trinity bay............

All shimano for me I have a calcutta 250 that is 8 yrs old and just replaced bearings, drag washers, this year. I've done but clean it every year. I also have 2 cardiffs that i just got this year on ebay and i'm liking them just as much as the calcutta's. They've handled the redfish fine and the salt off shore fighting the chicken dolphin. All of em set on TTF IM8 7ft rods.

bWAHAHAHA.................Yeah for me it'll be i can't wear my waders cus it's too hot for em. I usually don't need em till the middle of november. I just go wet.

YEPP MY DOG IS REALLY CHOMPING AT THE BIT NOW. HAD A STICK IN HIS MOUTH WHEN I GOT HOME YESTERDAY WANTING TO RETRIEVE SOMETHING AND WONDERING WHERE THE WATER WAS.

we hit the water at daylight and immediatly upon arriving at our destination found slicks all over our flat and bait busting like crazy. I always go for the topwater first so out went a chartruse super spook jr. had blowups on every cat just never could entice a solid hookup. Then my padna hooked up with a 28 1/2 inch red on the chartruse cocahoe minnow/ 1.8 oz jig head. I swithed to a Blurp shrimp (New Penny) and started hooking too. we had solid bites and hookups on every drift, a lot of fish that came unbuttoned though. Water was beautiful............we ended up with 3 upper slot reds and a 15 1/2 trout in the box by noon then left the fish to work on the blind some more. Looks like the birds were working the middle of the bay due to the zoo of boats we could see moving back and forth.

BWAHAHAHAHA............not even a cajun would put it in a gumbo.........that's bad.

Sharks (small sharks) and kings don't even hold a candle in my book. I put them more in the class of Amberjack as far as the fight goes.........eating quality ummm let's see, i think i'd try a hardhead first.

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yeah the only thing i use em for is chunking for tuna......My patnea just mainly wanted his hula popper back and of course some good pics and a sturdy fight. funny you mention that cus when iwas getting my license some guys in front me inline weretalking about the yellowfin tuna they caught at rollover pass........bwahahaha....i didn't have the heart to telllem it was a jack or even ask if they tried to eat it.

well i can't get the pics to uplaod, there smaller than 128kb yet it says the folder is full???

Me and a buddy came accross some free 4x4's and decided there was nuthin better to use em fer except build a massive duck blind. So 2 weeks later and a little work were finished with everything but the dog door and bench. Used the front 4x4 with some extra wood to make a shef for the shells and coffee cups and cigars, etc.., gonna pu some gun racks in also. it's total length is 14ft x 42"......so far we've only spent about 25 dollars on it.

we went put up our new duckblind saturday and whe we finished we fished a little due to the fact we had reds tailing accross the flat we were on. made 2 drifts and on the second my partner hooks up with a easy 40pound jack. Talk about a beutiful show when it cratered the hula popper in 2ft of water. we chased and fought the sucker for prolly 25 minutes and lost him via tail whipping the line. FUn times. my partner just emailed me the mileage on the chase. "The gps was on while we battled the jack. I just retraced the battle. We chased/fought that joker for 1.1 miles. What a hoot! Jared did a fine job at the helm. The fish would take off for a pole or crab trap and Jared would get between the two and the fish would turn for a drag burning run in the other direction. Good times I tell ya. "

Who in there right minde thinks their gonna pull and 844 pound mako into the boat....and by the sounds still remotely alive.............sorry buddy but they got the guts to even think about it. That's a sweet catch though. Bet that was some good eatin.............Tell them east coast and west coast boys they aint got nuthin tio brag about now.........third coast holds the record....

email out to to both of our senators. How bad is that i got them saved on my contact list........... The way i see it the only way to truely have these lands un-jeoprdized by the govs. beurocracy is to have private landowners do the conservation with the help of private organizations. You still have some of the cheep plotics of a private company but it's not like theres any big groups trying to sway a vote one way or the other by lobbying. I think DU plays too much in the poitical arena and doesnt do enough with the private land owners directly, let the politicians argue about toilets and rubbing feet.........make the refuges privately run by non-profit and i guarentee there funding triples.........you'd have to allow hunting on all of them though.

No need for appologies......it is only a matter of opinion. There is no one right viewpoint. WHich ever is your passion for certain reasons, and they are what drive you to excel in that area. Just stick true to them. That is what builds a respect for the different areas and will lead to the conservation efforts to preserve them. It's good we can have a debate like this, just hope the debate can still be had 10 years from now. Look how much has changed just in the last 20.

yeah let me see you do that down here and grab a gator by the mouth.

for u i'd drive down 124 in winnie towards high island, take a right on 1984 or whatever it is, thers a sign that says anahuac wildlife refuge. If you cross the ICW you went to far. The refuge will be down about 5-7 miles on the left. drive in , sign in, then take your second right (east bay boat ramp, walk in to the water and fish the flat to the right. on an out going tide get about mid stomach deep and cast back to the shore with a catch 5 or cajun spinner rig and work down the drop, the red's will nail it. lots a flounder in there too. you can also drive to the end of the road and fish the tire tung reefs, lot's big trout in the fall and winter caught on cork's and top water's.

How much money you willing to spend in gas........the season is what you make it. If the ducks aren't where you think, then scout for them until you find them. You have to keep moving with the birds to stay on them. As far as the hatch numbers go, we are higher than the long term average on most species. The scaup are still hurting some. Pintail and teal are up 30% from last year, canvas backs are up I think 20%, The hunters choice has really proven to be working, but we still have 2 more years left of the survey to tell true results.

It largely depends on what your passion is at the time. For me it's ducks......Yeah it was better hunting 20 years ago prolly to the point it was too easy and spoiled people. Now days people think that you just can't shoot a limit as often. Which is crap........the challenge is in shooting a limit or having enough birds to fill a limit. This can be accomplished if you keep scouting and move with the birds, ditching the blinds and blending in with surrounding. My best hunts are usually in the open bay with no blind and huddled against a log in the water. If you think it's not hard to stay on birds that decoy especiallly late in the season you don't hunt enough. The birds aren't stupid and they learn pretty quickly every year what that big boxy thing is...........The trophies arent just a green head or a pin tail........it's a pin tail with the elusive 10" sprig and perfect black and white layover feathers. It's a red head with a large crown of maroon and a full chest of black wirh sharp edges in color, it's a banded mottle duck, sure they look the same as another but to shoot one in perfect plumage is usually a chance in a lifetime. And i love to deer hunt with the best of them........ducking has more action and harder physical work and later nights and longer days........but the challenge is the same for both in my opinion.

Just heard that an Avery Pro-staffer in canada was shot in the head by a poacher. Don't know the full details, but he was goose hunting and some idiot on the road thought his spread was real geese, pulled out a rifle and shot the guide right in the head. Died on the scene..........Crap like this makes me sick to my stomach. Be praying for his family they'll need it.

Millet(after a year of planting) and wild rice in about 6 inches of water..............oh wait this is a deer hunting discussion.........

depends on the county. the september season you have to have a state issued tag to take a gator. In the spring season you have to have private land and it can't be a county that offers tags in the fall. Ohh and a hunting license of course.

telphoning only works in running water like a river.........i don't know if tidal movement is strong enough current. If u wanna go that rout'e just sink a 2ltr bottle with water and dry ice....it'll do the trick like dynamite. Either way there illegal.