Ol’ High School Buddy Baron Jones with a nice Surf Trout!
-Capt. Jeff Larson
Wow, It’s Super hot out there, Just like the fishing.
The end of July and 1st of August was on fire. We had a little cool front move in. Nice wind out of the North was just what the captain ordered to get back out in the surf and hammer down on trout and redfish. The whole Texas Coast Surf was awesome for about 3 or 4 days straight. The over achievers went out full bore and limited out on Specs and Redfish before 8:00 a.m. and then headed out to catch their limit of red snapper. A lot of fishermen didn’t stop there they trolled on the way in and caught limits of kingfish. Now, for the more technical fishermen there were plenty of tarpon in The surf as well. As I rolled back into the jetties from fishing the surf I jump several schools of tarpon. Now I’m not a Tarpon guide by any means. One day I gave it a Shot, On my way back in from the Surf after a quick limit of trout. After drifting for a few minutes in an area where I had seen tarpon roll the day before it didn’t take long to get that 1st hook up. I must admit I thought it was just a good kingfish. I didn’t think much about it but when I seen that tarpon fly out of the water with the leader and bait in his mouth. I was hooked. After a couple thousand dollars later I am now better prepared to try and land one next time.
There are more experienced tarpon guides in our area so if you are looking to book a tarpon trip before the migration is over. Give us a call, we will set you up.
The tide seems to be coming back along with the flounder. This year flounder has been a little off. The season seems to be picking backup and as other cool fronts pull through our area more and more flounder will be getting caught and/or gigged.
As mentioned before, we had several days of catching trout during the cool front in the surf. One morning we went to roughly the same spot. It was a nice 4 or 5 day pattern. Everyday the bite was about an hour or an hour and a 1/2 long. So it was imperative that we got there right as the Sun was coming up. Like a light switch, it was on as quick as it was off. The other pattern that I notice was the trout size changed each day. One day we had more females than males and as the Days progressed we caught smaller fish, Croaking males barely 16” each. It’s not common but one day there were undersize trout that We had to throw back 2 or 3 before we had a keepetr That’s just not typical of Fishing for trout in the surf.
The Black Drum bite was really good last month. We had days that we had triple hook up after hook up on nice eating sized drum. It’s been a week since I targeted Drum but they haven’t gone far. With the higher tide they just push deeper into the marsh.
Hey, Teal and Gator season is about to crank up. The Season is limited so get your dates together and let us Book It. Call the Saltwater Lodge and speak with Billy at: 713 907 4796 . He will hook you up. Pun intended! Let’s Catch it! Kill it! And Eat it!
Captain Jeff Larson 281 217 0399
