All in a day's work

Guided on a cold San Marcos day. To sum it up; the big bass were too wise, the small bass were not, M-Rod and Dennis went for a swim, fished till dark, hot coffee helped, took some good pics, and someone stepped on my micro-lite spinning rod and broke it. Still better than a 9 to 5!

A look back at 2009

2009 started off with a mid January trip to the Lower Laguna Madre. Our good friend Captain Kenny Smith took Johnny Quiroz and I out on his flats boat. Kenny has some of the images of this trip on his blog. Given that the tide fell lower than usual we did pretty well with redfish and trout. I do recall breaking a spinning rod on that trip. It's been rebuilt since then.
Brady and I went to the Medina three times this year. We first went in February hoping to get into some hybrid striped bass. Little did I know that I would have my best day with this species in September and not February. The Medina is always nice to visit. As a rule of thumb I will only start going when it starts getting green, and that's about late March.

This trip off Port Aransas with Captain Eric Lucas was a great experience and I got some excellent photos. This year I really broke into taking moe photos than casts. It is more challenging than you may think. As for fishing, now that I've got my zodiac I can take more short runs into the Gulf of Mexico and just outside the surf. Still cannot figure out how I landed only one small tarpon this year. Will do better next time.

Palacios, part 1. I told myself I would not go back after the first trip here, but I did. It was a good experience but I need to introduce Dustin to some of my better redfish spots. Dusting bought his first fly rod and reel this year and he is comitted to learning it better. Ironically I am the one always pumping up fly fishing and I did as much spin fishing this year. OK. maybe I'll go back to Palacios one more time.
Other fishing expeditions (also pre-blog) that deserve honorable mention:
February 22, San Marcos River with Brady, cold day,
March 4, Port Aransas with Bobby and Lance, found reds the 2nd day,
May 22, Port Aransas with Brady, Ladyfish under lights and Redfish in high water,
May 29, Laguna Vista Cove by kayak, good day for redfish and snook,
June 13, Lockhart, Texas private bass lake with HG Lehman,
July 3, The Red River out of Lake Texoma for stripped bass,
July 10, San Marcos River with William T. Bass and sunfish,
August 11, Lake Austin with my girls on the zodiac,
August 15, Canyon Lake with Chip Evans' family, catfish on ultra-lite spin,
and countless other outings to our home waters, the San Marcos, Canyon lake and Lake Austin.