2/2 Upper Laguna - Lots of oversized drum starting to show in the evenings around the local piers, Cos-Way, Clem's and Marker 37. Best bait has been blue crab and sea lice (mantis shrimp). The Backyard has been foggy the past few mornings but that didn't stop Sharkbait who reported on his trip on 2/1 Here.
He ended up with this nice 21" flounder for his efforts!
1/26 Upper Laguna Weekend Prospects Capt. Mike Singleterry- The water temperature hasn't changed much even after the last cold front. I would continue to fish the same patterns along the KRS. We also found some good trout and flounder last ween on the deeper sandholes in the Emmords area. I'm still throwing the same colors in soft plastics and using a slow retrieve.
From what I understand there is a cold front due in on Saturday so be careful out on the water.Mike
1/19 Upper Laguna Weekend Prospects Capt. Mike Singleterry- "The KRG is still HOT but the traffic is terrible, as long as water temps stay
as high as they are for this time of the winter the fish should stay in the same depths and some might move up shallower in the late afternoon.
I'm still using TidaySurge soft plastics and have been switching between the glow/chartruese and the solid chartruese.
Don't forget the drop-off along the Hunble Channel north of the Humble Bridge or th ICW north of the Kennedy Bridge, there are some very good trout in other ares of the ULM besides the KRS.Hey boat owners be sure and check your boat flares there are some that expire this year and month.
Mike"
Trip on 1/15 from Capt. Mike Singleterry- We've needed to restock our freezer here at the house so figured I might try a short trip this morning. Deb didn't want to go, she has church choir and I didn't see anyone hanging around in the front yard wanting to go so I loaded up and launched about 7:30a, which is kinda late for me.
Started out of the development canals and decided to fish away from all the traffic in the backyard and on the KRS. Ended up staying in the Upper Laguna but fished some of the older winter water I have learned over the years. Ended up with all the law will allow at around 9:00a, I was real suprised there wasn't but a few undersize trout. A real agressive bite.
I'm still fishing the deeper water 4' to 6' and still throwing Tidal Surge soft plastics but changed color to the solid Chartruese.
Good freezer restock and will last us awhile.1/14 Upper Laguna - Much better fishing today. Here's Ironmanstan's report with Nita - We shoved off a little later than normal today about 0730 and headed abit south. i had a new guest aboard her name is Nita and she is quite the fisherwoman and knows her way around a boat. She was along to improve on her fishing tatics and learn some new fishing stuff. I gave her a few tips and wouldn't you know she landed the biggest fish, which I would'nt have any other way. Good job Nita! It sarted off a little chilly but quickly warmed up and before long we were surrounded but lots of nervous bait.....lots. It was trout on after that. Again the bait of choise was the Tidal Surge glow chartruse and of course technique and presentation.
I even caught a mullet. Who looks better me or the mullet?
Nita with a fat 23 incher.
We were back in by 11:30 with 13 keepers.
_1/13 Upper Laguna - Tough fishing today from reports of two really good fishermen. Ziacatcher drew blanks today fishing the Padre Island Canals and ICW, two normally good spots after cold temperatures like we had this morning. Oz fished some of those same areas and managed to scrape up only two keeper trout.
1/6 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - The mid-winter fishing this year has really been good. I've tried to get out over the past couple of week with or without a charter. The trout bite has been very good on soft plastics in about 4' to 5' of water and those bonus flounder really can make for a very nice box of fish.
Except for a couple of fog-out days the weather conditions have been really good and the water conditions have been even better.
I understand there is another cold front due in the area this weekend so fishing after the front next week should be real good.
My better boxes have come from using a glow/chartruese soft plastic but I have been mixing it up a little using tequlia/chartruese and pearl/chartruese rigged with a 1/8 oz jighead and caught fish. Seems the closer your bait comes to looking like a small pin perch the better you'll do.
By the way the seagrass in the Laguna Madre is still in real good shape.Mike
12/31 Upper Laguna Last week of 2011 - Multiple reports this week . The water dropped out, the fog came in. Here is Ironmanstan with a nice trout he caught and released using Tidal Surge Split tailed Mullet fishing "the Backyard"
12/30 The Group "Los Tres Dios de Grecia"
took time out from touring to relax on the Upper Laguna Madre - Our catch from yesterday in the fog on the Laguna Madre. We caught a lot of undersized speckled trout. We also saw two 40" class reds just cruising along the edge of the ICW as if out on a morning walk.
12/29 Rabbit's Report - It was so beautiful this morning I just had to get the kayak and go fishing. The tide was outgoing and the fishing started out slow. Had a couple of hits that I thought might have been flounder or pinperch. Decided I was heading in the wrong direction so I turned around and went the other way. A little while later I got a big hit and it tried to stay on the bottom, thought to myself a flounder and i grabbed the net and got him in the boat. It was a 17 3/4 in flattie. Wow that was a pleasant surprisie. A few casts later I get a 19 3/4 in trout. Oboy now we are getting somewhere. And then I get a really huge hit and im fighing it and its taking lined back and forth we went finally got it to where I could see it and its a huge flounder, it upchucks what appeared to be about a 6 inch perch I can see it I grab for the net and it spits the hook out. Had to be the biggest flounder I have ever seen. Right after that zia catcher stopped by and we chatted a bit. Went back to fishing and caught two more trout 17 and 15 1/4 inches and 3 more flounder 18 1/2 and 19 3/4. The last one was to small to keep.
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12/8 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry - I haven't been on the water much the past couple of weeks, jury duty and some personal business had kept the trailer dry. I contacted IMS, he needed sometime away from work so we launched the boat this morning about 7:00a. Cooler water temperatures and a high pressure pushed the fish into deeper water. Stan and I spent most of our time fishing the development canals with some fair results, We caught trout, redfish and flounder on soft plastics, seemed the color of the day for us was a Tidal Surge glow/chartruese split tail mullet rigged with a 1/8 oz jig head.
Here are a couple of pictures, Stan had the biggest trout for the day, a 27" nice heavy fish.
Nice sunrise
and I'm having stuffed flounder for dinner.
12/1 Upper Laguna - There are lots of dink trout around biting on gulps and soft plastics. Ziacatcher managed to get a few "Christmas gifts" earlier this week on cocaho minnows. Here is his report - Mary and I both had 9AM Dr. appt. this AM. After the appt. I took her for breakfast before she headed to school. While eating she says that she needs for me to get some Christmas/retirement presents for some of her staff for her. I ask what she wanted me to get and she say FISH. I can handle that. "How many people are we talking about". Sheepishly she say 15. I told her that means at least 30 trout depending on size, so that there are 3-5 fillets per bag. Which means other honey dos have to wait. She agreed. I tried not to smile too big.
After breakfast I call a friend and said I need his help getting Christmas presents for Mary. After explaining he agrees. We fished Pita from about 11-2 and wound up with a double limit of trout, the biggest was 23". Caught at least double that in dinks. If you're thinking I caught them on tequila gold sandeels you're wrong. Today I used salt and pepper cocahoes.
Here is pre-packaged presents. That's one load of fillets.
20 today and 9 yesterday that puts me at just about finished with Christmas shopping.lol11/18 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry - I was out in between blows over the past few days. It's funny, I've had to run a little bit south to get away from the undersize trout. We sure must have had a very good trout spawn and hatch. I don't remember every seeing the numbers of 10" to 15" trout in the ULM but then again TP&W
said the net and creel counts last spring on the Laguna were at historic numbers.
Water temperatures haven't dropped enough to move the trout and redfish off the flats. If you can get past those hungry growing, first year fish there are some good size trout and redfish ready to eat.
Soft plastics seems to be producing as well as live shrimp and the colors of choice for me has been glow/chartruese and red/white. I don't use any
lead heads other than a 1/8 oz. seems to be the best with the types of grass and water depths on the Laguna.
Target those sandholes in about 3-4 ft. of water and look for bait like mullet and perch, all the fish I cleaned had bot in their stomach.
Looks like the wind might be up this weekend but the water conditions even with the wind has been good.Mike
11/11 Upper Laguna - Lots of dinks under the birds working along the ICW and King Ranch. Al Oswalt found quite a few dink trout too. He wrote about fishing on Thursday "Big ugly caught yesterday afternoon on soft plastic, not GULP! Caught in Emmords. Lots of dink trout. About 40 trout, 6 keepers. Drum was about 30 lbs. Wore me out...."
11/3 Upper Laguna with Capt. Mike Singleterry - Finally on our way to a fall/winter pattern. There have been signs of a shrimp migration to the bays over the past week, birds working in the ICW, KRS and Baffin Bay. We caught fish under the birds a couple of days this week using soft plastics. Seemed the HOT color was glow/chartruese split tail mullet. There were some nice fish in the 20" class and a good number of undersize, which is a good thing.
There are still a few schools of redfish on the deeper flats. I guess there still working their way offshore to spawn. Artificals work great.
Schools of drum have been in the Boathole and Packery Channel and a peeled dead shrimp has worked real good just keep an eye out and try not to make alot of noise, their really skidish.
Looks like the weekend weather will be good with low winds, don't let the HI-pressure keep your box empty....fish them deep.Have a good weekend
Mike
The Cosway 11/3 - Dave reports slot drum early and late, redfish and flounder are also increasing. Croaker are still on the small side and the sand trout are biting well.
10/20 Upper Laguna with Capt. Mike Singleterry - I haven't been out but a couple of days this week, the red tide and strong north winds kept me looking at the Laguna from the dock.
The days we did get on the water produced redfish on soft plastics Monday in Emmords Hole before the cold front, the color of choice was chartruese
with a 1/8 oz jighead. There are also still some drum in the Boathole we've been catching them on peeled dead shrimp and it's been fun site casting the schools.
Trout fishing still seems to be slow on the upper end of the ULM but I've heard report of some good boxes taken out of the Landcut.
Hopefully the red tide has gone for this season and we can get back to somewhat of a normal fall pattern.
But we could still use some rain.Have a good weekend
Mike
10/18 10/16 Sleepover Report from Ziacatcher and his grandson - I baby sat my grandson JJ over night ( he called it a sleep over) and had a blast. We fished off the dock, climbed on the roof of the house to look at the ULM and I made him a little sail boat
After treating my son and daughter in law to an anniversary BBQ I hit the Pita area around 5PM. Knew there would be very few people on the water being that the 'boys and Texans were on TV.
Hit a number of spots close to home with nothing but dinks and sand eel destroying perch. I saw a number of reds and drum in the flats but with the sun in my face I didn't notice them until they were right next to the boat.
On my way in I stopped at one of my winter HH. I was out of tequila sand eels (thank you perch), but did have tequila eel jr. Put one on and all of a sudden it felt like it got hit by a train. At first I thought it was the turtle I just saw but no, it was a 32" red that was released. By this time I was almost on the island so I slowly looped back for another drift. Bam, again. This time I caught tomorrow's dinner on a half shell. 27.75" . Good last drift.
10/14 Upper Laguna with Capt. Mike Singleterry - - Fishing in the ULM hasn't changed much over the week, not enough rain to help the salinity levels and we had a full moon. Until we see some drastic changes in the salinity levels (lower) I can't really see any big change anytime soon.
On a positive note there are still some redfish and a few trout in the ICW and Packery, live bait seems to be the best way to go.
I noticed alot of people wondering what happen to the live shrimp at the bait stands this year. Most bait shrimp caught after the spring run are caught in the ship channel, this year the ship channel was being dredged
and shrimping was very poor because of it. Now, with the lack of rain we're going to continue with the lack of shrimp problem we've been having, shrimp need fresh water to reproduce.
Hope we have a wet winter and a better spring.Have a good weekend
Mike
10/6 Upper Laguna with Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing has slowed to a crawl over the past 5 days and not alot to report, seems that 'ol high pressure was back and the salinity keep rising. I covered around 70 miles yesterday fishing from the far north end of the ULM to the Kenedy Shoreline with poor results at best. The water color and conditions on the flats doesn't look very good at all and I didn't see alot of mullet or shad.
Hopefully the rain that is coming in the next few day will help the Laguna
and surrounding bays.Have a safe weekend
Mike
CCA Babes on Baffin Tournament this Saturday at Doc's - sold out
9/29 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry - It seems that all the redfish in the Laguna came out to play over the past week. Reports of redfish from the Landcut to the Upper Laguna Madre have been coming in. I only fished a couple of days this week and results were great, we caught redfish on soft plastics, spoons and live bait everywhere we fished but out of everything we were throwing, soft plastics gave us the best results. The best color seemed to be chartruese or some type of chartruese combination.
The water color seems to be getting better in the deeper parts of the Laguna and that has been the area we have targeted.
It sure has been hot but there is a little cool front due in on Friday and maybe it will make things a little more bareable on the water.Live shrimp seems to still be a little hard to get, but seems to be available at a few more baitstands. So get there early. Piggy perch and finger mullet are still in good supply.
Mike
9/22 Upper Laguna via -
Fishing has picked up a little this week. The high pressure that has been hanging over the coast forever moved a little and we did get some rain and fishing got a little better, I've been fishing the same deep water pattern but changed locations.
I've been fishing both live piggies and soft plastics over sand in 8' to 10' of water. Monday we free-lined piggies with good results with a box full of trout, Tuesday we were throwning soft plastics (Tidal Surge) glow chartruese split tail mullet on a 1/8 oz jughead and caught a very good box of trout and redfish.
I really want to thank that potlicker that pulled in ahead of me, he managed to scare a very nice school of redfish right at the boat.
We smoked 'em.
There is some type of cool front due in Thursday evening, I sure hope that dang 'ol high pressure doesn't follow.
You guys have a great weekend
Mike9/15 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry - The ULM has been on and off this week, I contribute that to the full moon and that good 'ol high pressure that continues to plague us. With the higher winds this week site casting redfish and drum has been difficult.
I've gone back to fishing the deeper flats and grasslines along the KRS and Emmords Hole with a free-lined piggy perch. The ICW is also still giving up a few trout and redfish, try fishing the little "cut-thru" along the ICW drop-off with the tides moving out the bait is being pulled off the flat.
If you plan on fishing live shrimp this weekend you might want to call your favorite bait stand ahead of time and make sure they have some, seems live shrimp has been in short supply this week.
Have a safe weekend on the water.
Mike9/8 - The little bit of storm surge we got from Lee made fishing pretty good last week. From Pita Island south to Baffin Bay along the KRS proudced good boxes of trout and redfish on piggies and live shrimp.
There were also a few schools of redfish moving to the north from Baffin
and should be more to follow as this fall moves along. I've found September to be the best month to find the schools, although most of the fish are oversize they're alot of fun on light tackle or the fly.
There are still some trout and slot size redfish and drum showing up on the edge of the ICW and in the crash channels in the Boathole and around the Humble Channel. Try live shrimp under your favorite float.Maybe we can get a little rain and storm surge off of this next storm in the gulf, the ULM still need to get the salinity levels down some.
Mike
Cos-way 9/8 - Cos says schoolie and occasional keeper trout, black drum and now redfish showing up at night with a few oversized drum in the mix too!
9/2 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry- I've still been fishing the ICW and the deeper areas of the ULM over the past few days with some good results on both redfish and scattered trout. The best results has been on live bait both piggies and live shrimp,being freelined along the deep grass beds. Yesterday inbound tide surge started moving pretty good late in the afternoon because of the tropical depression out in the Gulf, today the water was moving even harder and the tides were up about a foot more. So if you decide to get out on the water over the holidays look for higher than normal tides and scattered fish but I would stay with the deep water pattern.
If you do plan on getting out on the ULM don't forget about the redfish tournament out of Marker 37 and the stronger than normal north winds.
Have a safe holiday.
Mike
8/25 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing is still a little slow on the flats of the ULM unless your looking for redfish. It seems water temperatures and salinity are continuing to climb a little everyday and as I have said in past reports that high pressure just wont go away.
There are still some trout, redfish and drum on the edge of the ICW. You might want to try using live shrimp, I switched over eariler this week and found alot better bite free-lining them.
The deeper waters of Corpus Christi Bay have been holding some trout
and Gray Snapper early or until those dang dolphin show up, free-lining
live bait has been the most productive but I would think soft plastic might
work.I've taken a few of days off this week, the heat has been tuff to handle everyday and I needed a break from it but will be back after the weekend.
Mike
8/17 Upper Laguna with Captain Mike Singleterry - Fished with a new customer this morning, Kyle and his grandpaw from Arlington. Mr. Kyle hasn't had the chance to fish the salt much so his grandpaw brought him to Corpus Christi for vacation. They are fishing, going to a baseball game and seeing the sites for a few days. But the most important thing to Kyle is the fishing.
We got away from Clem's this morning about 6:30a looking for redfish, Kyle said he wanted to catch something that would "strech his string" As you can see he never had the chance to get his life jacket off and we were on the redfish.
We were fishing the drop-off of the ICW free-lining piggies. Here are a few pictures. Kyle and his grandpaw ended up catching 12 redfish, 5 trout and broke one off. Back at the dock at 10:30a (before the heat)
Here are a couple of pictures. All the fish were released.
Great day and we're going to do it again on Thursday, then he's got to go back to Arlington and back to school Monday....
BTW you really don't need to go to the Landcut to catch redfishUpper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry- -Trout fishing is still slow on the ULM, we're still dealing with that "thing that won't go away" High pressure and high salinity levels. We have been catching some very nice trout on live piggies and croaker just not the numbers we were catching a few weeks ago.
Try fishing the edge of the ICW and the deeper flats in and around Emmords and Beecrofts Hole.
There are still some drum and redfish in the Boat Hole, they are being caught on dead shrimp fished on a 1/8 oz jig head, look for the schools.Mike
8/11 Upper Laguna from Cos at the Cosway - He says it has been slow during the day but good at night and early mornings for speckled trout, a few sand trout and now flounder showing up.
8/5 Upper Laguna via Capt. Mike Singleterry- It's been plenty hot out on the ULM over the past week, as most people know Don was a dud. We didn't even get a sprinkle and only a 2' to 3'above average tide that didn't last but a couple of days, not enough to give us a little help with the salinity levels.
Fishing in the Laguna has slowed down some, the trout seemed to have moved to the ICW and deeper parts of the ULM. The warmer waters have really effected the trout bite. It seem they are alot less agressive and very slow to eat. I've still manage to put together some nice boxes but my clients really have needed to be patient. I'm still fishing live bait as it seems the artifical bite has really been slow.
The dead floating grass seems to be getting worse but that's a sign of the time of the year and the lower tides, but the water is still clear on the flats.
With the clear water start looking for those schools of drum crusing around on the flats. You can really have alot of fun site casting the schools of fish with dead shrimp or a Gulp shrimp.
If you do get out on the water make sure your drinking plenty of water or sports drinks, heat stroke isn't fun and can really make you sick.Mike
7/28 Upper Laguna - Everyone is bracing for Tropical Storm Don. At the very least it will bring lots of water into the Laguna. Fishing the past week has been pretty tough even for those using live bait. Paddle tails fished slowly in 6 feet of water has produced trout on a sluggish bite.
Robul got a personal best 7/27 and filed this report Me and my buddy chris did some serious grinding yesterday. we fished a full 5 hours with nada, zilch, zero. I ran all over the dang laguna looking for fish. And finnally got lucky about noon.
Picked up my new personal best trout. 28" and 6.5 lbs.. Its no 30 In fish but never the less im pretty happy about it because I dont chase trout. we fish for reds.. Got all the fish on piggy perch in about 4 foot of water.. The big trout was released.
Here's a report from 7/21 Capt. Mike Singleterry who celebrated a birthday this week: Still fishing the upper parts of the Laguna, today seemed like a good one
with new clients that had a want to learn. My clients were Harry Garza, Joshua, Craig and Bobby. With the best wind and water contition we have had in a week and with an early start we started fishing a real big sand hole I ran across last week.
The fish were on the bite so we didn't need to spend alot of time in the heat. We also had a very nice suprise. Harry caught a very big trout and we released it.
Here is a picture of Harry 30" trout, he let it go.
Just a quick picture of some of their fish. They really kept me busy today.
I went back to using earthworms today, the piggy perch were a little small.
Really a good day on the water. BTW Harry had never caught a keeper trout before today.
Mike7/14 Corpus Christi API tournament is this Saturday 7/16 out of Bluff Landing - Reports this week showed trout in the deeper areas in 3 to 4 feet of sand and grass and along the ICW and other crash channel dropoffs as well as way down south in the Land Cut. Captain Singleterry had some repeat customers earlier this week on 7/12 and they did well in spite of the tougher conditions with the high pressure.
Fished the ULM this morning with one of my all girl fishing team Camila and her dad Omar. The barometric pressure was a little high and continued to climb most of the morning so they had to work hard to scratch out their trout. We fished the deeper cuts around the crash channels and deeper sand pockets on the flats.
Camila and her dad were here in May and did real well, Omar told me she was ready for another trip to the coast to fish.
Her big fish for the day
Seems like she grew up a lot since she was here back in May.
Don't think I could have had a better day.
Redfish still hanging out shallow until mid morning on the flats behind Mustang if not disturbed by boat traffic.
7/7 Upper Laguna - Big Redfish Tournament this weekend! - Expect lots of tower boats and fish to be scattered for more info visit http://www.theredfishseries.com/. Meanwhile Capt Mike has this report and says 7/6 was the same as 7/5 - The bite is still good but I had to do a little hunting around this morning. The tides have dropped out since last Friday and with the low water and Higher than normal barometric pressure. I moved to deeper grass beds and sand holes. The water conditions are super clear up in 2' to 3' so I moved to 4' to 5' of water. For awhile this morning the wind was ZERO and the temperature seem like it was well over 100 degrees. My clients were Dan, Bryan and Lance this was their one time a year fishing trip. I only took one picture..... of the results... Still using croa er uh "earthworms", the little ones worked best :D Mike
6/30 Upper Laguna - The bite in the Upper Laguna has been real good over the past 10 days
lots of trout and in todays case a mix of flounder and redfish, I even had a client get a slam. Today I fish with one of my local customers, he owns a business here in Corpus Christi and will send his employees fishing every year. These guys were part of 3 trips, yesterday the guys had their
trout early and today we did the same. I'm still fishing in 3' to 4' of water over the grass and sand. Water conditions are real good with the light winds.
Seems the trout population is
very good this season along the Texas Coast. Let's hope we can get a little rain in the next few weeks and we can keep those numbers up. I've been talking with some of the TP&W biologist ove the past few weeks and they say the numbers are very good.6/23 Upper Laguna - Cos at the Cos-way says redfish and trout caught during the day with a few flounder showing up. Schoolie trout mostly at night.
Capt. Mike Singleterry report for Upper Laguna 6/13 - 6/23 Seems fishing has been fast and slow over the past few days. Wind, high salinity levels and low tides are making it tuff. We're still been getting our fish but it seems to be making me work a little harder.
I've been trying to target the deeper areas of the ULM fishing the drop-offs
and deeper sand pockets with live bait.
With a little weather change today was well worth the short boat ride.
I had one of my regulars customers and three of his clients. Mark, John,
Steve and Kirk. We stayed close to home because of the threating weather and I hd one of those good feelings about today.
By 9:30 we had put 30 keepers in the box and released another 20 in the 16" to 20" class.
6/22 Upper Laguna - More reds showing up in schools near Pure oil and the backside of Mustang. Below is Curtis Cantwell with a tarpon he caught and released recently on the King Ranch Shoreline. Trout bite is consistent on live bait in deeper areas close to flats with the lower water levels. Dropoffs along the ICW should be good as well.
6/16 Upper Laguna - Roy's Bait and Tackle said the trout bite was good in the afternoon south of Bird Island on Popping corks and gulps during the recent full moon phase. Wind is really wreaking havoc with drift fishing. Suggest trying the back side of Mustang Island or Padre Island to get out of the wind. Rat reds and a few keepers reported on gold spoons
5/26 Upper Laguna from Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing Report
The trout are still showing up from Pita Island south, live bait and artificals are both producing great numbers. I've been fishing water from 2' to 4' and havbe had about the same results in any depth in the sand holes.
If you feel like a boat ride the Kenedy Shoreline is as good as I've seen it
all spring. Fish those deep rocksWatch out the Thirdcoast tournament will be at Bluff Landing with hundreds of participants. Good luck to all
His report from 5/26 - Had a good morning on the ULM no wind and kinda HOT out there.
We were working on a Boy Scout fishing merit badge and were able to scratch out a couple of limits.
Looks like a new crop of fish have arrived.
Hope the wind stays down for you guys this weekend...
Mike5/21 Bird Island/Emmord's Hole area - Skipper and I took the ladies out for some fun. Skipper's first stop the Bait Bucket for live shrimp ( a must for Karen Krueger below you see why ) and they had the big boss Lenora working the crowd. I told her she had to have the prettiest fingernails of anyone selling shrimp Saturday :)
Off to Marker 37 and the zoo it was with a tournament and Beach to Bay going on. Finally made it out to south of Bird Island for several nice drifts. the wind was up but it wasn't too bad. Kelle and Karen used shrimp and Skipper and I were quite busy keeping up with baiting hooks. Karen scored first with the keeper trout, Kelle managed two large skipjacks and the smallest trout of the day. Later Kelle switched to soft plastics and gulps but still could only manage a few dinks. Skipper and I got in some fishing and managed to get in a few keeper trout but Karen was steadily slinging shrimp and caught 6 out of these fish.It was fun to get out.
5/13 Upper Laguna - Excellent fishing reported this week from various places. Wednesday Skipper and Zach caught numerous trout both keepers and dinks drifting the flats just south of Bird Island. Best baits were white gulps under a cajun thunder.
Captain Mike had a good outing 5/12 We fished the deep grass beds and sand holes on the KRS this morning.
Really nice to have the winds down a little. Good trout bite.
My clients were Mark, Chris and Butch we all had a great time and they took home some fish.
Looks like the winds are going to be down for the weekends too.... Mike5/6Upper Laguna - The recent front seems to have turned on the fish. Good reports from Baffin have also come in. Ziacatcher had another fine report from the Backyard(The water bounded by the Causeway to the end of Laguna Shores out to the other side of the ICW) and down to Pita. On 5/3 Zia and his friend caught and released over a double limit of trout to 23" with three over 20, numerous skipjacks and one undersized red using this assortment of lures.
Soft plastics under popping corks have worked well. Try chartreuse as I had two trout hit my optic green float on my cajun thunder on Wednesday. Note live shrimp has been scarce at times and the shrimp they are getting have been small.
4/28 Capt. Mike Singleterry - Fishing has slowed alot over the past few days. It seems the fish that were coming through the Landcut have come through and scattered in
the Baffin Bay area. The ULM has been steady but not as good as it can be. The weather has had alot to do with a constant bite in the ULM with the barometric pressure up and down as these late cool fronts come through.
Live shrimp has bee real tuff for the bait stands to get, I've talked to all the bait stands on the ICW and it seem the shrimp have moved on out to the bay, what live shrimp they have been getting has come from the Aransas area.
Better times are on the way, the wind should start to lay and the tiderunner trout should start showing up in May.
Ziacatcher got a lots of small and keeper trout fishing the backyard out of Flour Bluff before the winds came up from the front. Trout were all caught on tequilla eels.
Mike
Rabbit got a nice limit of reds this week fishing in his kayak off of Dimit Pier in the Bluff just north of the Causeway. He wrote: Wind was down so I put in at dimmit. Made 3 drifts and caught 3 reds:D Also incountered and idiot driving a haney all decked out nice and pretty with decals and everything. He came so close to me he almost swamped me, took a picture and was going to post it but some how I lost it off my phone. The reds went 26 1/2, 25 1/4 and 24.
4/28 Capt. Mike Singleterry With winds still blowing hard the past couple of weeks, I spent more time back in the Landcut. There are still alot of trout, redfish and drum still moving up the cut north to the waters south of Baffin Bay.
Water conditions are very good early but starts to get sandy and poor
after midmorning.
I've had my clients fishing a fishfinder rig with live shrimp along the west
drop-off of the cut from Marker 2 south to Marker 10 for our best results
with great results.
By the way, the Blue Crabs seem to be back in our bay system in great numbers, I was alway taught that this is a good indication our water is in good shape.Mike
4/20 report via Robul - Me and my good buddys dave and chris decided to do some fishing. I was able to get one of my other friends to watch the store so we slipped away and what a day it was.
We hit the water early at 6 am before sunup. Expected lighter winds but we dealt with what we got. We had 2 limits of redfish by 10 am. Total tally was 7 keeper reds, 3 or 4 keeper trout, and 2 keeper drum.
Great day on the water with my buddys. It was just what I needed to get my mind off work for a day.
All the reds where caught in knee deep water drifting with either gold spoonz or Outcast corks with tiny little shrimp on them. We picked up a dozen mullet trying for some bigger reds. But they went un touched. The biggest fish was 26" and 8 lbs.. a real fatty. We didn't waste our time looking for any color of water. We simply made long drifts across flats that had grass and pot holes. I forgot my power pole remote so we did very little fishing at anchor.
4/7Upper Laguna Capt. Mike Singleterry - I've been fishing the ULM all week with some great results. Even with the HIGH winds the fish still eat. My clients have been boxing trout with limits or close to limits on every trip. The best method has been live shrimp under a float, and it hasn't made any difference which float as long as it makes noise.
There has also been redfish showing up in the shallows of the ULM from the Yellow Cabin south. We're still using live shrimp to catch them although I'm sure artificals will work.
There are some good reports of tide runner trout coming up the Landcut from Mansfield, but their still on the very south end of the cut.
Fishing is good and going to get better as the wind lays and summer approaches.
Mike
3/25 Upper Laguna 3/24 - Ziacatcher still doing well in the backyard and filed this quick report after his wife demanded he go fishing! - Not only that, she said that I had to fillet, bag and freeze any I caught. Being the obedient husband that I am I fished from 9-noon and did catch some fish. Water was stilled pretty stained around Pita so I went slightly south. Here are the 5 keeper trout and the red I caught along with the bait they were caught on.
Meanwhile Capt. Mike Singleterry - filed this report from the Land Cut Saturday: OK Guys....this 12 year old girl had a great first saltwater fishing trip.
The landcut is still red hot.....
Thought you would like to see some pictures.
This is Zoie she caught a 26" long trout a 27" long redfish and a 28" long
Drum, funny thing was she caught them all one after the other.
Zoie and her dad Paul....
A good day was had by all...
3/17 Capt. Mike Singleterry - Even with the high winds and despite the spring break traffic the fishing has been pretty good all over the Laguna Madre and the Landcut. Trout are on the flats again on the ULM fishing soft plastics and live shrimp and popping cork. Shrimp are still in the ICW and on a couple of trips we caught some nice redfish on the drop-off.
The Landcut has been off the hook with trout, redfish, flounder and drum
coming out of there in some very good numbers. If you can afford the gasoline and don't mind the long boat ride it has been well worth the trip.Mike
Gotmullet? Got this limit of Drum 3/15 - Warning for graphic beheading :)
