NaCl H2O

I have a little time this weekend and hope to go out and try some salt water fishing here:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/goose_island/

Augie and I are going to leave very early Saturday morning and try to get to Goose Island State Park when it opens. We hope to try the jetties and maybe the salt marshes there. Will be happy with Redfish, sheephead, flounder, speckled trout or anything else that decides to fall to our trickery. I will report back with news and plenty of pictures. With any luck there will be some pictures of actual fish to share.

Brazos Bend/Houston Visit

We had a very nice visit in Houston last weekend. We got to see Joann, Josh, Amanda, Darrell, Brent and Desi, as well as Maddy and Cadence. Aunt Lauri was there too, and we all had a great time. I was able to get out to Brazos Bend on Saturday by myself and with Darrell on Sunday. We managed to catch a few nice bass, but only one that was of legal keeping size, so it received a reprieve. We stayed up late Saturday night and played Apples to Apples, Taboo and watching the Dallas Stars. The Dallas Cowboys fiasco wasn't until later. Mom fixed a feast of Roast Beast, mashed potatoes and lemon pies, I had more than my share. The youngsters went "honky tonkin' " Saturday night. Us old fogies stayed home and had a good time playing games and having fun.

Obligatory pictures:

Only catfish I caught out of the Brazos River--not much to write home about.

Hannah, with her new appendage, AKA IPod and Maddy

Darrell hauls in a nice one.

Blind Hog, Acorn

BRAZOS BEND WEEKEND

Went fishing yesterday and today with Mom at Brazos Bend State Park. Yesterday she caught the two nice bass (pictured below) on consecutive casts. A cold front came through mid-morning today and we decided to give the fish a reprieve. We drove around the park and looked for future fishing spots and found some nice places for camping.

One for the skillet.

Park volunteer handles a King Snake.

Red on yellow, kill a fellow

Red and black is a friend of Jack.

Windmill, Brazos Bend State Park

A small one just before we called it quits.

Old Fishing Photos

After spending the weekend fishing at Brazos Bend, I finally finished the roll on an outdoor camera that has been laying around for a couple of months, and I wanted to get them posted. Here are some from Calaveras:

My good friend Augie, early morning Lake Calaveras

Another nice stringer from Calaveras

Same fish, maybe.

Arkansas State Record, Unrestricted Tackle

Debbie and I had dinner at "Doc's" in Garland, where Uncle John's state record blue catfish hangs in perpetuity and forever. Notice the photo in the lower right corner, you can see Uncle John to the right.

Follow the link below, click on "Arkansas" to the right and scroll down for "J.D. Harman, Dermott Arkansas" state record listing.

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Catfish on a Cane Pole

Here's a picture of Big Daddy that I found in Momaw's picture drawer, one of my favorites. I was going to put it in the previous post, but I thought this one would work better as a fishing post. The person with him is Laura M., no idea who that is. I don't remember Big Daddy that well, but I do remember he always seemed to have that big smile like the one he has here.

Ft Bend County Fishing Report

Some pictures from Brazos Bend State Park, Ft Bend County, TX. Me and Mike went fishing there today, caught four nice large mouth bass out of Creekfield Lake.

Here is a picture of Big Creek running into the Brazos River. There were some HUGE gar feeding on the surface, hope to go back soon and try to hook one.

Creekfield Lake, Brazos Bend State Park, Ft. Bend County, TX.


Creekfield Lake, Brazos Bend State Park, Ft. Bend County, TX.
If you look close, you can see Mike fishing from the pier.

Brazos Bend State Park

Caught some nice bass fishing from the bank out at Brazos Bend State Park today on my visit to Ft Bend County. Brazos Bend is a very beautiful park, featuring a wide variety of birds, fish, alligators and furry creatures. I caught and released about as many of these than I kept. They were biting very good this afternoon, I was pulling them in about every other cast. I think the cold front coming in got them riled up. I will go back tomorrow, but probably won't do as well in the colder weather and wind. I will make sure I take the camera with me and post some pictures of the park tomorrow night.

Saturday fish blogging

Here are some pictures from fishing Calaveras a couple of weeks ago. The Redfish are a little smaller than the ones I caught last week. I am still looking for the elusive 20" minimum. I will be fishing this week with Augie Hernandez, a friend of mine from my Cav days in Ft Hood and Iraq. He is now stationed with me here in San Antonio. I have a few new tricks in store for the fishies lined up this time out, so I hope to have some good pictures next post.

Calaveras Fish of the Day

I went fishing at Calaveras again this morning, and as much as these pictures look like the same fish in a different location, they actually are different than the ones I posted on Sunday. I caught the bass early in the day, and thought I would end up catching a bunch, but they stopped biting at about 8:30 and never started up again. Seems like I am stuck on one good one a day.

Catch of the Day, 24 September 2008

Another nice bass

Calaveras Lake Initiation

Went out to Calaveras Lake this morning and early afternoon and caught a couple of nice fish and some small ones. Hannah took these pictures of the keepers I brought home. I caught the catfish early and caught the bass about an hour before I left. There are alot of fish in the lake, and I look forward to going back again soon. I think I will go back on a weekday so it will be less crowded. I hope to get out again before I have to go back to work. There are supposed to be a good redfish population in the lake, so I will ask some of the local how to go about catching them. I'm thinking though that it will require a boat. There are some rental boats there, I may try one on one of my next few trips.

I'm still using the 7" June Bug, for bass, I caught the catfish on live worms. I may just go for catfish next time, they seem to be easier to catch, and I would rather eat catfish anyway.

Fish Blogging

I finally got the pictures back of my lunker large mouth bass. The fish is not quite as big as I remember it being, but the pictures tell the story. There were a couple of other folks fishing that morning, so I gave the fish to them.

I went out to Canyon Lake a couple of times and have only been able to catch very small Small Mouth Bass. My next strategy is to try Calaveras Lake or Brauning Lake, which is just down the rode on Hwy 1604. There are supposed to be some nice Redfish, Catfish and Bass in these two lakes, I hope to find some of them.

Ken wins battle of wits with Micropterus salmoides in close contest

Well, finally landed my lunker. I caught a 5 1/2 lbs. Largemouth bass(micropterus salmoides) out of Little Smoak on Saturday, using a 7" June Bug plastic worm. Saturday morning was nice and cool and the fish seemed to perk up a little. I caught a few small ones on Saturday as well. I am going to go back tomorrow morning for one last excursion before I clean and pack up my equipment for the trip back to Texas this Friday evening and Saturday morning. I will update this post with photos as soon as I get the pictures developed.

I know there are these new fangled things called "digital cameras", but I have been unable to get anything to download properly, so I have been taking pictures with a circa 1980 model 110 camera. Not the best camera for indoor pictures, but pretty good when there is sunlight, and no great loss if it gets dropped in the drink.

More to follow. . .

Little Smoak

Hello All,

I purchased a cheap digital camera today, and I wanted to share with everyone some pictures of the South Carolina, Georgia crew. Instead of sending emails out as usual, I wanted to make this the central location that anyone who is interested can go to to find news on how things are going, and the news on the latest fish I have caught. Will start out with my favorite fishing spot, and go from there.

Above is a picture of my favorite fishing pond, "Little Smoak" out at the Lakes on Ft Gordon. I went fishing today and caught two large mouth bass, one was too small to keep, the other was too small to take a picture of. I gave it to a lady who had a tape measure (it was 1/2 and inch larger than the required 12") and a willingness to clean the darn thing. I have been using a float tube to get out to where the big ones are, but got out too late today to get the tube set up. I am still looking for the elusive "lunker". I am defining lunker as anything over 5#'s. I have been fishing the lakes hard for about a year, and the largest was about 2 1/2#'s. Hannah caught one last year that would qualify as a lunker on her first trip out, so I have some catching up to do.