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ziacatcher · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 12:43 pm Post subject: Very short trip

well today's the first day the winds haven't been blowing between 30 and 40 miles an hour. Unfortunately they were not blowing at all. I got to my 2 minute honey hole and I sat and sat and sat. did not move one bit. After 20 minutes of moving here and there and catching four dinks I decided to come in. What was really cool was on my way out of the canal I barely got up on plane and out in front of me I see the huge wske. So I shut down and started puttering toward it. As I'm getting closer I see fins or tails breaking the surface and I think huge School of redfish. I get close enough to throw my sand eel into the edge and I immediately get a hook up. The fish is just peelling line off and I'm looking down at my real wondering if I'm going to get spooled. I think man I've got a monster red and then I look down and realize I was in the biggest school of cownose rays that I've ever seen. They were 360 degrees and radiated out 30 yards in each direction. I finally brought in this 30-ish pound Ray and released it and then I look up and I'm still surrounded by rays. I took a couple videos but the server I use does not accommodate video so I cannot post. Pretty cool experience

maxthelab · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:06 pm Post subject:

Yep, the Mrs. and I got into a school of em by the lighthouse and after 3 in a row I had enough and needed a break.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:05 pm Post subject:

Would love to see the cownose video.

we made the best of it both Sat and Sun - posted on the kayak page
http://www.corpusfishing.com/messageboard/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39025

bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:28 am Post subject:

And Zia, thanks for posting about fishing on this fishing forum - helps to make it an oasis from current events.
My parallel Estes thread on TKF has 1600 hits in 18 hours (including overnight) - people are apparently hungry to read about fishing and adventure.
Also, when we visited Roy's Saturday afternoon, parking was at a premium. Makes you feel good fishing tackle shopping is also an essential activity.

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3973

you went out too early....in the afternoon, the fishing turned on fire...redfish in the flats on topwater, and trout like crazy under corks along the shoreline....we got a good box...
becky
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:27 pm Post subject:

that was what we found, too, Becky, though we also did ok in the morning fishing incoming tide current and the light breeze that came and went.

ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:12 pm Post subject:

I was going to go out in afternoon I started a project around the house and continued working on it. Should have gone out.

ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:42 pm Post subject:

I was going to go out in afternoon I started a project around the house and continued working on it. Should have gone out.

TexasJim · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:53 pm Post subject:

My "Solunar Table" for Rockport today said the Major Bite would be 2-4 PM. I took my sail line and a dozen finger mullet up to the Airport Road Kayak launch and baited out at 12 PM. Retrieved at 1 PM. Twelve mullet. Retrieved at 2 PM. Twelve mullet. Retrieved at 3 PM. Twelve mullet. At 3:45, I gave up and pulled in 11 mullet. The twelfth hook had a 21" flounder on it! Maybe I should have gone at 3 PM, instead of 12 PM.
The tides and currents in Copano Bay(what little there are) are very hard to predict, as Copano is fed by the Aransas River and other creeks, and wind often is a bigger factor. But I expected the lunar transitions would prevail.
That's why it's called "fishing". TexasJim
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 pm Post subject:

that's a good-eating flounder - I've never believed solunar, though I understand a bit about harmonics, and believe in tide and wind currents.