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[BigSaltsFishing]

I noticed that the boards have been silent. I imagine it will pick back up once this front clears us in a couple days. In the meantime I'd like to hear some fish stories to pass the time.

I have one. A couple years back, 2009 or so, my older brother was visiting from Dallas. It was around February and a cold front dropped us into the low 30s and the wind was blowing like a fart after a chili-eating contest. Rain was drizzling for most of the evening. Being Saturday, close to midnight and bored my brother, his girlfriend and my wife thought it would be a good idea to brave the elements and head out to Clems. We hit the pier around 1am or so and deploy the rods. Water was choppy like nobody's business and those north winds were slicing through us like a dagger. Given the weather conditions the girls lasted about 20 minutes before they headed back to the car. My brother and I figured we would brave it for at least an hour. Well our bravery paid off and we soon hooked into a pair of Big Uglies. I know I have the pics somewhere. I'll try to track them down to post on here. The pair of drum satisfied our fish urge so we let mother nature humble us into packing up and heading home. We were back in my living room before 2:30am.

Was able to track down the pics of the cold front drum. Excuse the clarity, its a pic of pic.




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[AcousTennis]

That small chance of hooking something in freezing weather always keeps me going back haha..

Im sure I have a few.


As a kid my dad and I use to do fish/hunt days on the king ranch. Hunt the mornings and afternoons and fish mid day in Alazan bay. This particular day it was freezing but we had a truck full of deer so the afternoon was ours to fish away. We picked a place with a embankment that i could jump down and set rods in the shell/sand. We were fishing a corner with different depths so I set one shallow and one deep. My dad makes a comment about not being close enough for a big fish strike and I laugh it off. Now at this point in time I didn't know what feeding fish sounded like but thinking back there were big trout popping and mullet jumping everywhere, craziest action Ive seen in my life. One rod goes down and I'm locked in battle with a big ugly. I get it to the shore and high fives are going on when i notice my other rod on the shallow side just STUCK. To this day I have never seen a rod stick down that much. I had it in a rod holder with a pipe going across the bottom to kick it into the ground. That pipe was getting pulled into the sand and drug across as my 45lb power pro was screaming from the zebco at the time. I hauls it over to the rod while my dad laughs at my attempt of running in snake boots. The rod gets pulled to the right angle and flies in the water. Its a bright blue shake spear rod so i chase it in the water and was able to grab it. I set the hook and walk back onto shore and 2 big mouths come up shaking and splashing and exploding. 2 monster trout ate both mullet on the double drop. The top hook had a MONSTER on it considerably bigger than the bottom. Halfway through I lose some weight on the line and only one trout rolls to the shore, I landed the smaller of the trout. That trout measured out to 32.5" 11lbs and change. I had no idea what it meant at the time and neither did my dad, we just fish to catch. My grandpa was unimpressed mostly because he himself landed a 36"-37" in the same area when he was a kid. We had a black and white photo of the brute but it was lost when hurricane Brett brought the roof down on their place in Ricardo. To this day I have yet to beat that trout..one day..one day...

I got close that day with the FAT 28.5 I nailed on topwaters (pictures below). Was fishign with MisterWill (shout out!) at baffin. Nailed a flappin devil came up shaking and I just kept yelling "will its a monster..its a monster!" He came over with the net and I lost it boat side. Never forget...

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[BigSaltsFishing]

That's a mama trout if I ever saw one. Can't imagine what that 30+ trout looked like. As far as the rod popping out I know that feeling. My bro and I fished BHP one summer afternoon setting our lines for Kingfish. While we are casting for some smacks his rod horseshoes and starts screaming. Before he can run it down the sucker pops up and over the ledge into the gulf. Sickest thing ever. But the story doesn't stop there, some guys fishing the left side of the T end up snagging it about 20 minutes later. They pull the rod up and the king is still hooked on. My bro grabs the rod and is able to land that sucker. An added bonus was the quality of the Newell reel. That thing still casts and catches like nobody's business. There's not a single sign of rust on it.
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[shallowsport]

Fish like that tend to take the chill out of the air and warm the soul.

[TheDude]

what awesome stories guys. Now let me give it a shot.

I'd say 4 years ago, before I became engulfed in this addiction we call fishing, I used to just fish piers with my dad overnight maybe twice or 3 times a year. We would fish the shorter Copano Bay Pier all the way at the end. We usually just caught small specks, gafftops and hard heads, nothing special. Well one night when we took my girlfriend at the time and her younger brother with us we weren't expecting much. We had a couple rods out, 4 larger spinning reels and a penn 209 all baited with cut bait in hopes of catching some reds or drum. Well we would occasionally check the lines, my ex-gf's younger brother checks his 209 and as he was reeling in slack his line starts screaming. A couple seconds later, a monster fish jumps out of the water doing tremendous head shakes all the way back into the water with a huge splash and than the line goes slack. At the time I always doubted it was a tarpon but now I am for sure that was what we had hooked up to. The fish was quite a ways from the pier and you could just see the sheer size of this beast it was unbelievable. The couple that was fishing at the next light to the left of us were just in awe as well of the size and loudness of the splash. This is one memory that I'll never forget.

That is the main reason i love fishing the salt compared to fresh water, you just never know what you might hook up too!!
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[Savageman]

Awesome stories. Keep 'em coming. I fish vicariously through the posts on this site.

[wallhanger]

Those monster trout love the muddy bottoms of Alazan and Drum Point during the winter time.

[huntnreds]

I had a simalar experience at bhp everybody was fishing up around the 2nd gut catching a ton of reds and black tips in 3/4 foot range I'm fishing with my less than one week old falcon low pro rod paired with my fresh out of the box curado the awesome old dull green one and I get a phone call on my antique Nokia phone I set my rod down cause it took two hands to get the dam phone out of my pocket I answer look away for 2 seconds turn back and I see my rod shooting straight out and is being held on the rail by an eye I dropped my phone reaching for it and it shot off like an arrow headed south and I watched it submerge like a submarine doing about a 100 theeen I was so pissed I wasn't thinking straight I turned around and kicked my tackle box everything flew out it to almost went into the water and a pair of big manly women who were fishing next to me were laughing so hard at the whole situation the really big one was farting like a trucker everytime she laughed I gathered up what was left of my equipment and my dignity and left the worst day for fishing for me ever.
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[ironmanstan]