Black Drum and Redfish Action

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

Today we fished the Chasco Tournament and were the only boat that I heard of that produced limits of both specked trout and redfish. All these fish were caught on live shrimp. Live shrimp is what these fish are naturally feeding on this time of year so it makes sense to use that as bait. The fall tides, a new moon and hurricane activity in the gulf have created near perfect conditions for catching trout and redfish around Port O' Connor, Texas. This successful trip would not have happened without the hard work, motivation and perseverance of these three awesome clients! Hats off to a job well done. Capt. Jon