For my Sister and I this experience with Capt Bell was 5 star plus!! From the moment we met this gentleman we knew we were going to enjoy are selves. Immediately we felt as if we were going out with a friend who knew were the fish were. We could not have picked a better person to fish with. He is a patient and personable man who shares freely his knowledge and skill of angling Reds and trout. It became very clear that Larry loves what he does and the sharing of this with his clients. Honestly,  he taught my sister and I several things about the fish themselves that interest and would help in the future. At this point I would say, if you had no experience and wanted to learn to angle fish, this is your man. Very honest and straight forward. ” I can take you to where the fish are but you’ll have to catch them.” He did and we did! Can’t say it enough, you will truly enjoy this man and the experience he will provide. Again, thank you so very much for the good time you afforded my sister and I. We are more than satisfied….you can’t go wrong with Capt Bell.

We decided to have a cousins fishing trip late July and Capt. Larry didn’t disappoint. We did a full day trip. He really knows the area and when the fish weren’t bitting, he’d quickly adjust and take us to another place. That day the trout were only around shells, so that’s where we stuck around most of the time. There was not much wind until later in the day, and that’s when the bitting picked up. I hadn’t caught a red in over 3 years so I was hoping this was the year. Thankfully the two fish hit in our last spot. 23 inch red, and 30 inch 10 1/4 bull (which was released for the next angler to catch ;) ). Fun experience all around, would do it again if I’m back in the area!

WOW!  What a great experience with Capt.  Larry Bell we had a wonderful day wade fishing for trout and redfish.  Larry was knowledgeable and just a heck of a good guy.  He put us on some early small trout and my wife and I had a blast catching and releasing the little ones back into the bay.  We ended with some solid drift fishing over grass and brought home a couple of keepers for dinner.  GREAT captain had a excellent time can’t wait to book the next trip.  We will definitely be using Capt. Larry for our next adventure.

Mike was an excellent host and an enjoyable person to spend the day with.  Because we were using only artificial bait, Mike spent the time to teach his theories and correct technique.  He also explained what he looked for on the water in order to improve the chances of catching fish.  For me, it was a good learning day.
We were wade fishing. We caught a lot of undersized spotted sea trout and eventually caught enough to limit out.  We moved spots and caught more sea trout and undersized red fish.  Time should have expired but Mike was game to keep going until we caught some keeper red fish.  Another move and we caught some red fish keepers.  Overall it was a good day of fishing.

A friend of mine and I had two full great days of fishing with Larry Bell.  We have been fishing one or two times a year in the bay for the past 20 years and consider ourselves pretty good fishermen.  The trip with Larry Bell seemed like adding a third good friend to the trip.  Larry has a great personality and made the trip fun.  He knows the water well in the Rockport-Aransas Pass area and knew lots of spots to fish that all produced fish.  He is also very good at bait selection and introduced us to a number of new baits and presentation techniques that produced fish when the bite seemed to slow.  We each averaged catching between 15-20 fish per day with enough keepers mixed in to make it a really great trip.  I had caught speckled trout up to 28 inches in the past and lost one on this trip that would probably been a lifetime trout for me….so close.  I highly recommend booking a trip with Larry Bell if you want to have a great time on artificial action.