Limits of Redfish!

Today was a great trip on the water with Colton and the gang. They caught excellent eating redfish, black drum, mangrove snapper, sand trout and whiting (aka southern kingfish). Some people think sand trout filets are too soft and mushy, but we use a technique learned from some of the fishing guides in Florida that most Texas coastal guides do not know about on how to properly keep soft fleshed fish well preserved so the filets are not soft when they are filleted. Sand trout are some of the most delicious fish in the bay! Capt. Jon

Light northeast wind this morning, a falling tide and cool weather. This made some great conditions for catching limits of redfish and a couple of bonus excellent eating black drum. Black drum is a very common menu item in seafood restaurants along the Texas gulf coast because they can be legally commercially harvested from the bay unlike red drum, aka redfish. In my opinion, smaller keeper sized drum are better table fare than red drum. Both are drum but black drum is whiter meat. Black drum are not the same as a freshwater drum as far as table fare, they are much better. Anyway, live shrimp caught all these fish. Capt. Jon

Today I had the opportunity to fish with Dennis and Theresa from the Houston area. This was an awesome trip. The redfish were so thick and feeding heavily with a falling tide that large shrimp could be seen jumping all over the place. The redfish were literally in a feeding frenzy gorging themselves as these crustaceans were being flushed out of the estuary. It did not take long for this couple to get a two man limit of redfish after the same thing they were feeding on was placed in from of them on a hook and leader. Dennis and Theresa will be enjoying several blackened redfish or redfish on the half-shell meals this week. Thank you for the trip, folks. I had just as much fun as you did! Capt. Jon