Nice Catfish Out of the Brazos River

While everyone else was traipsing around Houston doing the after Christmas shopping, I was able to get out to Brazos Bend State Park and get in some fishing in the Brazos River. There was a great deal of mud and rain to contend with, but I caught this nice catfish soon after I got set up on the bank. This was the only one I caught all day, but it was fun anyway.

Calaveras Catfish, 22 DEC 09

Instead of doing my Christmas shopping as I should, I went fishing out at Calaveras again. This trip was more fruitful than the last few trips. I caught eight nice catfish, they were biting steady all morning. Fished using just worms and blood bait.

mmm. . .catfish.

SALTWATER FISHING IN DECEMBER NEAR CORPUS CHRISTI TX IS TOUGH

Steve Baxter and I went to Ingleside Navy Yard this weekend and had a good time fishing and checking out the restraunts in Ingleside, but didn't catch any fish worth keeping. We did manage to find a good place to buy fresh shrimp, so it wasn't a totally wasted trip.

A common pose, waiting for the fish to bite.


There were many large ships coming through the area, Ingleside is a deep water port.

We had plenty of sun and good weather, but not much in the way of fishing action.

Steve catches the only fish of the weekend, a monster catfish weighing in at about a pound.

mmm, catfish

The Great Fish Roundup of Ought-Nine

Lake Calaveras, 8-9 June

Darrell and Augie with the impressive stringer of fish. This is prior to the Darrell's big catch of an 8# redfish.

Darrell's 4# catfish

The 8# redfish Darrell and I collaborated on. This fish got on my line, and as I brought it toward the bank it ran into Darrell's line. It then snapped my line, and I thought it was a goner. Fortunately it tangled in Darrell's line enough to where he was able to bring it in. It weighed in at 8#'s.

Darrell's 8 # Redfish.

Darrell and Augie with the night's catch.

We had a really nice time fishing, up to the time we got to the back yard and started cleaning them.

redfish

Caught these redfish the last full moon, 10 May.

This one on 2 MAY-

27 APR

Night Fishing, Calaveras

I went night fishing last night at Calaveras with Augie. We did OK, I caught two nice redfish and Augie caught a redfish and two catfish. All in all it was a good night. We fished from the bank and used shrimp and worms. We hope to go again soon--here are the pictures.

Calaveras Striped Bass

Calaveras Striped Bass--Friday19 MAR 09

19 1/2", 3#'s

Brazos Bend Bass

Here are some bass I caught on my trip to Brazos Bend last week. Thought I would show before and afer filleting. Will be back to Brazos Bend soon for three days camping and fishing. Would like to catch some catfish out of the river, but not holding my breath.

Before

After

Goose Island State Park/Ingleside Naval Station

Augie and I returned from from a long fishing day in the Aransas Pass area Saturday night. We had a great time fishing, but didn't return with anything worth keeping. Here is the pier we fished off of in the morning. We were going to go wade fishing, but ran into a bad case of common sense, and decided to fish the pier instead. The fishing at GISP was very slow, but we managed to catch the first fish of '09 there.

Pier at Goose Island State Park.

First fish of '09, flathead catfish, Goose Island State Park. Multiply this fish by 20 and you see how our day went.

Augie catches the his first of many flathead catfish.

After spending the morning at GISP, we decided to ask the locals where a good spot would be, and we got a tip about Ingleside Naval Station. We asked around and found a good spot on a pier at Ingleside. We fished the rest of the day there and caught flatheads until closing time at 9PM. No pictures from Ingleside as the Navy yard we were fishing would not allow photos for security reasons.

Now the story about the one that got away--I managed to hook a redfish (Augie says it was about 6-8 pounds, I say it was about 8-10) and get it up to the surface near the pier. I tried to keep it from going under the pier, it made a sharp left turn and the line snapped. Moral of the story, always bring a net!

While we were there, we found out that although the fishing in this area stops at 9PM, you can gig for flounder there all night. We hope to do that sometime soon. All in all it was a good day fishing. We haven't planned our next expidition yet, but I think maybe we will try Brazos Bend.