crazy_cajun02

when's your next class on calling......I need a few pointers ;D ;D ;D

the point was brought up on another board about the water levels this year being higher than the last several. This has quite a few lakes shut down which is exactly opposite from last year also. With all this water that can't be hunted and the water that has flooded private lands the birds are guarenteed to be scattered. But with avid scouting the public hunter should be able to stay on top of the birds, just might burn quite a bit more fuel than normal.

I've been trying to plan a trip out with some guys on the century but everytime it looks like the weather will pan out it doesn't. I haven't even looked at the weather for this week i figured that hurricane would be pushing swells our way. i remeber a couple years ago we had a hurricane or tropical storm send some swells at us but they were 10 ft ground rollers spread out at like 25 seconds it was similar to the pacific. made for a decent day because it appeared smooth with no wind waves, had a lot people sick though. you could feel the rise and fall but not see it.

well a buddy called me up last week and said he had an open spot on the capt. john paid for so it would be a free trip for me, so not wanting to pass on the free trip i went. It was a good time hanging out with buddy's and not having to worry about all the preperations and clean up of the boat, but i don't think i'll ever go on a party boat again. Unless it is free at least. Not much for being restricted to just bottom fishing and being on the boat with 86 other people. now for the report........we hit 4 wrecks and 2 rigs. i know the 2 wrecks that really produced were the newest sunken rigs that TPWD sunk. I havn't looked at the map yet to see were they are. I think we headed due south maybe slightly south east from galveston jetties. as for my group we left the spade fish alone and kept to the deep drops, ended up with 9 snapper 18-23 inches 3 b-liners and 6 lane snapper. They used bait i stuck to the butterfly jigs. I had one good run at the first rig we stopped at i think it was either an AJ or Ling. I fought him for 20 minutes and then lost tension and he somehow spit the hooks. That was a first....gamagatsu hooks usually stick.

Some friends of mine just got back from doing missions work in Senigal Africa here is a video of a hunting expedition the went on. Duck hunter to the core....

well i spent all day at the hospital yesterday with my sister. She was in a bad wreck monday night, mustang rear ended a (slow moving )semi at high speeds. She has a minor compression fracture of the L-2 lumbar vertibrae and bad bruising in the abdomen from the seat belt. Looks like they should release her this afternoon. The driver walked away.....though should have been taken to jail. Due to the fact they both had been drinking. I can't believe the cops just let her go home with her parents with two tickets. Neither of which could have been DWI or they would have to take in for video tapeing. I just pray she understands the consequences she got a free pass on, before she kills somebody. My sister too for that matter, she is just as guilty.

yeah that's what i said, until last year i was wade fishing and two floated past me under a big plastic jug in waste deep water. talk about thinking your going crazy for a second. I think they just follow the saragassum and driftwood in like the ling do. Be nice if we could talk the chicken dolphin in to stickin it out all the way to shore...........chicken dolphin on a topwater in the surf.........that would be fun.

well the refuge is still fresh........ugggg. I had several blowups by the redfish on topwaters but no takers. Bait was everywhere, nervous water was easy to find. Just no salinity to it, oyster buyou must be dumping more fresh water than i realized.

I'm seriously thinking of going to the refuge and fishing tonight. Try to catch the good water before it gets stirred up again by this hard south east wind that is coming and who knows how much more fresh water. Topwaters in the Dark.....

i was just looking at that........ > > > I swear the weather can't just act like its supposed to......or actually it is... unpredictable. 4-5ft seas this weekend I sure hope that goes down.

I havn't heard anything out of sabine lately. The grasslines and cuts in the marsh should be holding redfish and flounder and the birds should be working with the trout though. Conditions have been good in the last week and a half. My concentrations are offshore and in rockport for the next month.

Have had the same thing happen at the 504 well heads, we do really good there too. It's awesome to see the gulf turn red when they come straight to the surface. Opening day last year we were catching them on mirror lures and top waters when we chummed them up. Then the kingfish turned up and by by mirror lures.

anytime you go with rick your gonna limit fast. He has more snapper holes listed than anyone in the gulf. He has a great book too.

sweet.....finally some good reports......How big was that triple tail? I have seen several in the bay. I was suprised to see the 17" limit on them this year. They sure some good eatin though. How was the water clarity? could you see a blue water line offshore? I know fat chance of that..........

I don't see a problem with the season......I'm just ready for september 15th.

I have looked at the results year after year and it seems that most of the tagged ones are caught in east bay or the north jetty. You'll see some at the dike, or the spill way, but overall they come out of the east bay vacinity.

do you free dive or use tanks? I want to learn to scuba dive. I have free dived a couple times. I can't ever talk anyone else in to the water with me now though.

Yup......that is a definate there. You'd think with the weather we've had in the last week it would have been done. The bad thing is their post spawn and have dropped weight. A lot of the trout being caught down south are getting skinny, as well.

Just talked to a budy and they limited on snaps in 35ft of water out of galveston the other day. all 18-25". Limited on kings to 40lbs and a couple of bonita released. They caught several under sized ling too. They said the same thing on water, hit some aqua but no blue.

Yeah i fully understand that. When donny was there we took them out in an airboat with a biologist to show them what needed to be done. They were real interested in starting the programs. I don't lay blame on anyone but washington. It would be nice to get Delta Waterfowl in there to appropriate the money and see if washington would go for it. Funny, how it's not that simple because of all the red tape involved.

yeah, it wouldn't be near as bad if we could the wallisville project managers to actually take up some sildlife management and stick to it. Controlled burns, spray hyacinth, and try to plant some actual food plots that waterfowl like.

I saw this posted on another site and thought it was interesting. The same story could be told about the Monte Belvieu area in the past 20 years and how the wallisville project has affected things. Historically the Katy Prairie is defined by west of Greens Bayou and East of The Brazos River. In Pristine times it was a fire climax, tall grass prairie.Grasses were Big and Little Bluestem,Switch Grass.And Indian grass.Anywhere from 10 to 50 % of the Pristine Prairie were seasonal depressional wetlands. European Man brought cattle grazing to the area and many large ranches evolved some remnants of these ranches can be seen today.REA "Bob "Smith.Warren Ranch The LH7.Many crops were tried but most failed because of the poor drainge of the soils.The first rice was farmed in the late 1800s.Rice was farmed but there was no mechanization and was very labor intense.After WWII the combine was invented ,called a combine because it both harvested and thrashed the rice.The modern rice dryer was invented by aman in Katy named Tucker.Once farmer could harvest and could dry and store their crop rice farming flourished. Soon farmers had a crop they could plant once and harvest twice. The large amount of wetland area attracted ducks by the millions.Geese were visitors after prairie fires. Two events brought the geese to the area .One the planting of rice and the dredging of the ICW. The ICW started the destruction of the marsh forcing geese to look for alternative food sources. Since geese used the rice prairies at fire times they were already used to feeding there.They found ample food in the wasted grain in the rice prairies. At first they would fly back to the marsh but hunters soon learned that if they provided water and safety.They would roost in the rice fields. In the early 1980s rice acrage began to decline and Houston started to grow westward. The Katy Prairie has become a thing of the past.

Don't use dead or live bait and you won't excite the sharks. Use some butterfly jigs or knife jigs. The bigger snapper and ajs seem to like them better anyhow.

I don't meen the schoolie trout, you can catch them at the spillway all year fresh or not. The deep holes will have suspended salt water in them there. I mean the sows that actually have the gut in them to make the 8lb requirement to be entered. Those are trout few and far bertween in galv. bay even when the bay is salty. There usually caught in deep west bay by san luis pass Or east bay over the reefs and by the refuge in the fall.

I can't believe there still has only been two tags turned in. Five have been caught but didn't qualify, i sure hope they were released. I can understand the fact no trout have been entered on the upper coast with all the fresh water the only place to catch them is gonna be at the short wells out of sabine, or the jetties. Galveston bay is prolly messed up for the rest of the year.