3 person limit of Redfish + Trout & Drum

Today was the first day of a two day trip for Andrew, Colt, and Bennie. We have fished together for the past three years. We always look forward to fishing together because of the laughter and jokes. We always have so much fun plus I am pretty sure this is the third year in a row that we caught a limit of redfish on the first day of fishing. For sure they were very happy that we got the fish that they wanted. Since we were fishing a redfish tournament, they were not interested in catching speckled trout or black drum, but we still managed three nice trout and a bonus drum for the fishing cleaning table. Looking forward to day two guys! Capt. Jon

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