All A’s for the 4th 9 Weeks

First Grade: Grace Brown, Kyndra Carriles, Connor Ferrell, Landon Jones, Gracie O’Shields, Aubrey Ragusin, Nicholas Ragusin, Dane Spencer, Brayson Thumann

Second Grade: Blake Bowman, Luke Doggett, Byron Ferrell, Emily Ferrell, Anthony Flores, Alex Lopez, Lyric Lopez, Jaydin Rhoads, Cole Spicak

Third Grade: McKenna Guevara, Alexandra Mallory, Rylie Ragusin

Fourth Grade: Kyle Doggett, Matthew Stapp, Annabelle Thurman

Fifth Grade: Gage Spencer

All A’s and B’s for the 4th 9 Weeks

First Grade: Leland Carriles, Shelby Wheat

Second Grade: None

Third Grade: Stephen Bowman, Maddix Delgado, Justice Epley, Antonio Gloria, Jackie Gutierrez, Aiden McClelland, Hagen Rhoads, Christopher Richter, Keegan Short

Fourth Grade: Ayden Brown, Aislin Guzman, Alexzaria Lopez

Fifth Grade: Ashton Albrecht, Damian Guzman, Leah Lucey

ALL A’s FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR

First Grade: Kyndra Carriles, Connor Ferrell, Landon Jones, Gracie O’Shields, Nicholas Ragusin, Dane Spencer, Brayson Thumann

Second Grade: Byron Ferrell, Emily Ferrell, Lyric Lopez, Jaydin Rhoads, Cole Spicak

Third Grade: McKenna Guevara, Alex Mallory, Rylie Ragusin

Fourth Grade: Kyle Doggett, Matthew Stapp

Fifth Grade: Gage Spencer

Perfect Attendance 4th Nine Weeks

PreK: Jakob Donaldson, Lena Luers, Riley Pagel

Kindergarten: Bradley Eure, Remington Eure, Pryncess Few, Abygail Gonzales, Kailey Guzman, Kobe Guzman, Landy Resendiz, Enola Walton

First Grade: Leland Carriles, Landon Jones, Shaneesa Mallory, Aubrey Ragusin, Adamariz Zuniga

Second Grade: Blake Bowman, Luke Doggett, Emily Ferrell, Kamyla Guzman, Lyric Lopez, Jaydin Rhoads

Third Grade: Stephen Bowman, Maddix Delgado, Antonio Gloria, McKenna Guevara, Alex Mallory, Hagen Rhoads, Christopher Richter, Keegan Short

Fourth Grade: Kyle Doggett, Aislin Guzman, Dylan Ramirez, Sergio Sanchez, Matthew Stapp

Fifth Grade: Ashton Albrecht, Damian Guzman, Hunter Williams

PERFECT ATTENDANCE ALL YEAR

Lena Luers, Landy Resendiz, Leland Carriles, Aubrey Ragusin, Lyric Lopez
Cole Spicak, Kyle Doggett, Dylan Ramirez, Matthew Stapp, Ashton Fowler-Albrecht

The weather was great for the Annual Memorial Day Kite Flying Contest sponsored by the Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce. We had a great turnout for the event and so many colorful kites this year. Several of the participants have been coming out and enjoying the contest for several years in a row.

Special thanks to Shirley’s Small Fries for providing the water and to the POC Chamber of Commerce for providing the trophies that the children love to receive.

POC Community Service Club is taking a well-deserved summer break. We have ongoing projects for our community and are busy working and volunteering at summer events. While we only meet one time per month, we are still active. The first Thursday of each month at 10:00 a.m. we will meet in the back room of the POC Community Center and continue to work on current and upcoming service projects and manage our outreach.

Have questions? Need Information? Want to be a part? Come join us for our July 7th meeting and see what we are all about. Women of all ages are welcome to join us as we serve POC.

When your summer guest won’t fit in the guest suite and you feel the need to purge some stuff, please think of us. We are still taking donations of good quality household goods and clothing for our October 2016 Garage Sale. The County building behind the library is available for storage of those donations. Feel free to drop them off Monday through Thursday and we will put them to good use. If you need help coordinating donations, please call Marie Hawes at 361-920-2322 or Diane Cooley at 903-467-6335.

So until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember this quote by Mohammad Ali: “Service to others is the rent you pay for you room here on Earth.” Is your rent past due?

Winners of the Kids Fishing Tournament

The Kid Fish tournament for 2016 was a great success and turnout. This year the youngsters came out on Saturday, 28th of May in full force, 72 participants signed up and turned in 187 fish in 2 hours! With all the bad weather predicted and high winds forecasted for that Memorial weekend, it didn’t stop the efforts of this awesome group of kids and parents who turned out for a beautiful morning of fishing at Kingfisher Beach Park.

Trophies were given for 3 categories, biggest, most and smallest, in 3 age groups, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. With snacks, drinks and bait provided, and the volunteers from the Chamber, the large group was very happy they came out and looking forward to next year’s Kid Fish.

Big smiles, just a bigger one with the bigger fish. Why is that?
-Capt. Jeff Larson

Incredible Month!!! Trout, Reds, Flounder, Kings, Lings, Red Snapper, Sharks, and the list goes on and on. What do you want to catch? June is setting up for some crazy catching action. Pick your game fish and go for it.

Let’s wrap May up real quick. Great trout action! Using tops, tails, croaks, shrimp, even cut bait landed a few nice trout while fishing for reds with cut bait. It usually happens during May. Redfish seemed to scatter some days and weren’t as consistent as the month before. We also had some great flounder gigging trips. Walking or Riding, both were fantastic. Flounder gigging out of a boat is best during high tides. High tides make for tough working conditions. May was great and the 1st of June has been off the charts.

The first couple of weeks in June have been fantastic for trout. We have had an influx of fresh water due to the recent flooding to the north of us. This weather pattern is setting up the same fishing patterns similar as last year.

The other day we had a day off so as any good fisherman would do Garret, Matt and myself went on a late morning wade with croakers and within an hour we had our limits of trout. Now these two local youngsters are hard core like most everyone that lives here is. They wanted to keep going and not stop there. Hey get your Mowdy and let’s run offshore, okay perfect. Limits of Red Snapper in an hour. Luckily the seas were flat with 1 ft swells every 9 seconds. Smooth as glass. On the short ride back through the jetties, we start thinking, hey, let’s go floundering. They planned on going early and I detoured later that night. We went separate ways floundering and ended up gigging limits of flat fish. It was a harvesting marathon. We had an epic day of fishing, one for the record books. Now we can have Bubba Gump Fish a hundred different ways, fried fish, grilled fish, sautéed fish, stuffed fish…. You get the picture.

The weather continues to be rainy this week making June a hot muggy month which makes for some unpredictable weather. With this type of crazy weather, fishermen need to be flexible when they decide on going out between thunder storms plus have some good rain gear. Simms Fishing Products are worth their weight in gold. Don’t push your luck wait awhile. The weather here will change in a few hours. The barometric going crazy with the different storms coming and going can really turn on the bite.

For example, Capt Benny and I waited several hours to run offshore to try some new Ted Snapper Spots. We were less than 2 miles from a wreck offshore when a Thunder Storm cut us off going to the new secret wreck that everyone knows about. We were so close to having our limit of Big Sow Snapper. 5 minutes we would be there and be finished with our limits. BUT no, the storm was sending lightning all around us plus buckets of rain. Ugh, we had to turn around and head to an old secret spot which held our limits of small Snapper. Disappointed yes we didn’t get to try and break the State Record but glad we lived to live another day with fresh Snapper fillets. Then it happened to me again the very next day but this time diverted to a rig that held big ones and wasn’t in a storms way. So, always be smart enough to make another plan when the weather is about to cross your path.

Be smart, don’t take chances in the bay or offshore when there are bad weather cells all around you.

The Lodge has been rather busy so call Scott to find your opening. 361 785 DUCK.

Keep your rain gear close, maintain your bilge pump and fish between thee storms.

Captain Jeff Larson, 281 217 0399