Dealing With Winter Island Obstacles Greetings from Matagorda Peninsula Island. I hope that everyone is doing great, staying warm and staying healthy. Well the cold and windy northers are coming about every week out here now, with most of them dropping the nighttime and early morning temps into the mid-high 30’s. I’m thankful to have […]

POC Community Service Club members wrapped up 2020 with a fun Christmas Party on December 17, and are ready to meet 2021 head on with their usual “hard working” and “can do” spirits”!! As always, in 2021 the Club will continue to support and enhance the POC Community through their various Community projects, which are […]

Yesterday Yesterday in the late fifties until the late eighties were the best of times in POC for my family and myself. It was a time we spent the holidays and vacation time fishing and gigging flounder. We walked many miles looking for flounder to gig. During November we gigged the flounder and froze them […]

From the Dolphin’s Archives, December 14, 2012… Most of Port O’Connor’s “old timers” probably remember Mr. Raymond Northcut, but perhaps not by his real name. After settling in Port O’Connor around 1961, he became known as “The Goat Man”. Raymond Northcut was born in Indianapolis on November 6, 1906, the son of a railroad man […]

Cold temperatures will be in store for anglers as we enter another new year along the Texas Gulf coast. We can expect periods of exceptionally strong winds out of the north that will almost certainly be pushing a lot of water out of area bays, producing lower tides as a direct result. This should signal […]