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3/8/2010, Ed Jackson, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
40 inches, over 25 lbs, Black Drum, Visiting from Pittsburgh, Ed caught this oversize black drum at Clem's Marina and Pier using crab.
3/8/2010, Jennifer Cole, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
39 inches, 29 lbs, Oversize Black Drum, Took 35 minutes to to pull in this monster at Clem's Marina. This is her largest fish she ever caught.
3/8/2010, Travis Taylor, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Oversize; 38 1/2", 40 1/2", 26lbs, 37 lbs, Black Drum, Visiting from Canyon Lake Texas, Travis caught & released these nice bull black drum at Clem's Marina.
3/3/2010, Jim Fritts, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
39 1/2" About 40 Lbs, Oversize Black Drum, Caught At Clem's Marina Pier.
2/26/2010, Wayne Morais, Gulf of Mexico, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
70 lbs, Grouper, Caught this nice 70 lb grouper offshore by Port Mansfield. Caught several others that made for a great day of fishin!
2/26/2010, Dave Gravelle, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Redfish, Sheepshead, Visiting from Minnesota I Caught these nice fish using ghost shrimp at the Port A Jetty.
2/24/2010, Capt Marvin Engel, Upper Laguna Madre, Rocky Slough, Live Bait:
Slot Speckled Trout, Speckled Trout, Caught Specks using 1/8oz jighead using 5" sassy shad colors Limetreuse, Pumpkin/chartreuse/white, and Texas Avocado. Capt. Marvin Engel Big M's Fishing Charters LLC
2/22/2010, Captain John Little, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Speckled Trout, Redfish, Some nice trout and redfish caught in and undisclosed location in a pre-fish for Baffin Bay Rodeo.
2/1/2010, Mike Walston, Aransas Bay, Aransas Bay, Live Bait:
Red Fish Guides day off. Captain Mike Walston Captain Ronnie Waters and Captain Al Gordon took the day off and caught these nice reds on January 31st 2010
1/19/2010, Brent Kirkham, San Antonio Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Redfish Nice redfish catch at San Antonio Bay last Sunday the 17th.
1/19/2010, Bryson Goerges, San Antonio Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Redfish, Bryson Goerges caught a bunch of nice redfish at San Antonio Bay and Mesquite Bay.
1/19/2010, Al Gordon, Mesquite Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Redfish, Nice stringer of redfish caught at Mesquite Bay.
1/14/2010, Al Gordon, San Antonio Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Big, Redfish, Caught these nice redfish in San Antonio bay in December.
1/13/2010, Al Gordon, Mesquite Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Various Weight and Sizes, Redfish, Caught this nice redfish stringer up at Mesquite Bay.
12/31/2009, Larry Onken, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Various Sizes and weight, Sheepshead, Visiting from Thompson Illinois, Larry Onken caught this nice stringer of Sheepshead at the Port A Jetty.
12/31/2009, Aaron Evins, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
3 lbs, Seepshead, Nice sheepshead catch by Aaron Evins at the Port Aransas Jetty on New Years Eve. Using Live shrimp.
12/31/2009, Mike Burkhart, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Various Sizes and Weight, Speckled Sea Trout, Nice speckled sea trout catches at the Port A Jetty today by Mike Burkhart using live shrimp.
12/31/2009, Jay McLellan, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Sheephead, Visiting from Fort Hood Jay McLellan caught a couple of nice sheephead at the Port Aransas Jetty.
12/19/2009, Austin, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Sheepshead, Austin and his family caught these nice sheepshead at the Port Aransas Jetty while on Christmas spring break. He did a great job holding up this heavy stringer for the picture.
12/19/2009, Rob Ortlieb, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
22 inches, Sheepshead, Rob Ortlieb caught this nice sheepshead at the Port Aransas Jetty using ghost shrimp. Visiting from Lincoln Nebraska for the Christmas break.
12/19/2009, Tom Weister, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
22 inches, Sheepshead, Visiting from Oostburg Wisconsin during Christmas break with family Tom caught this nice sheepshead at the Port Aransas Jetty on live shrimp.
12/19/2009, Cesar Moriel, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
17 inches, Sheepshead, Cesar Moriel of Corpus Christi caught this nice sheepshead at the Port A Jetty on live shrimp heads.
12/2/2009, Mando Martinez, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
Pictured is 36 inches, the other was 34 inches. Red Fish on Cut Piggy Perch Couple of Bull Redfish at Port A Jetty. Good place for kids. Used shrimp to have kids catch bait for us all day and then used there catch for bait at night. Both were caught between 10 pm and 200 am. we also caught a cooler full of a variety of other species.
11/27/2009, John Montalbo, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
20 Inches, Speckled Trout, John Montalbo caught a couple nice trout at the packery channel today on live shrimp. visiting from San Antonio with his wife enjoying a great day of fishin.
11/26/2009, Chase Brooks, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
25 inches, Black Tail Shark, Pat Higgins enjoys a few days with grand children fishing at the packery channel. Looks like whiting and shark are on the menu.
11/18/2009, George Garza, Upper Laguna Madre, Emmords Hole, Live Bait:
Various Sizes and Weight, Black Drum, Speckled Sea Trout, Captain George Garza's client caught several nice fish on a cold morning.
11/17/2009, David Brooks, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Sheephead, Black Drum, and Redfish, Making lemon-aid out of lemons at the packery channel filling up a cooler of fish.
11/17/2009, Jonathon Murphy, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
20 inches, Black Drum, After only 30 or so minutes of arriving to the packery channel jetty Jonathon pulled in this nice Black Drum.
11/17/2009, Anthony Duhart, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
20 inches, Black Drum, Caught this black drum within 30 minutes of arriving at the packery channel.
11/17/2009, Ray Pena, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
24 inches, Redfish, Caught a nice redfish at the Packery Channel Jetty today.
11/14/2009, Joe Garza, Upper Laguna Madre, King Ranch Shoreline, Live Bait:
Various weights and sizes, Speckled Trout, Black Drum, Clients of Captain George Garza had some nice catches for the day.
11/9/2009, Captain Mike Angell, Upper Laguna Madre, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
Various weight and sizes, Black Drum, Founder, Redfish Some nice catches for Captain Angell's clients last week through out the Lagund Madre.
11/4/2009, Eric Orozco, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
16 to 21 inches, Black Drum, Mangrove Snapper, Caught these nice fish using shad and peeled shrimp at the Packery Channel. Black Drum measured 21 inches and the Mangrove Snapper was 16 inches. We have dinner tonight.
10/27/2009, Luis Tellez, Copano Bay, Fishing Spots, Live Bait:
we had no way to weigh it but it was 44 inches long, black drum, We were at Copano Bay Pier South. My son-in-law, Luis Tellez, caught this 44" drum on the night of 10-24-09 using 20 pound test line, #2 hook, and crab as bait. It took him about 30 minutes to land it. We took a couple of pictures and put it back in the water. This was only like the fourth time in his life that he has been fishing and we always laugh and rag on him because he has never caught anything worth bragging about. Who's laughing now?
10/27/2009, Sandy Mader, Baffin Bay, Baffin Bay, Live Bait:
27 1/2 inches, Speckled Trout, Nice speckled sea trout caught at Baffin Bay on live shrimp.
10/27/2009, Rosa Hill, Baffin Bay, Baffin Bay, Live Bait:
10/25/09 Rosa Hill caught her first keeper Red with Capt. John Little down in Baffin using live shrimp.
10/27/2009, Megan Little, Baffin Bay, Baffin Bay, Live Bait:
10/25/2009 Megan Little caught this 20" Trout from a cabin behind Twin Palms under the lights with a live shrimp.
10/27/2009, Captain John Little, Baffin Bay, Baffin Bay, Live Bait:
10/25/09 This big red was caught at night from the cabin behind Twin Palms on a live piggy.
10/26/2009, Timothy, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
22 inches, Redfish, Timothy caught this nice redfish at the packery channel fishing with his dad last Friday.
10/26/2009, Jimmy Francis, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
23 inches, Redfish, Nice redfish caught at the packery channel on live mullet.
10/26/2009, Floyd Henry, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
21 and 23 inches, Redfish Floyd had a couple of nice catches at the packery channel last Friday. He tossed back a few bull reds and managed to catch a few keepers.
10/26/2009, Paul Sokolyk, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
23 inches, Redfish, Nice redfish caught by Paul Friday on live mullet at the packery channel.
10/26/2009, Jerry Velek, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
15 inches, Spanish Mackerel, Snagging this catch through the belly, Jerry Valek pulled in a nice spanish macherel at the Packery Channel.
10/20/2009, Tony Aiello, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Redfish, Tony and Opk caught some nice redfish today at the packery channel just after the red tide blew through. Great fishing here in the corpus christi area.
10/20/2009, Outcast, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
Various sizes and weight, Speckled trout, Redfish, Several nice catches out on the Packery Channel Jetty. Nice 22" redfish caught on live mullet.
10/15/2009, Gary Turner, Fresh Water, Other, Live Bait:
This flathead catfish weighted 38 pounds. Flathead Catfish Gary Turner,Statham GA, with a 38 pound flathead catfish. We were fishing late afternoon on a partly cloudy. This flathead hit on a live bream in about 25 feet of water.
10/14/2009, Raymond Woodson, Gulf of Mexico, Packery Channel, Live Bait:
23 lbs, 41 inch, Redfish, Awesome Bull Redfish catch last night at the Packery Channel Jetty. This oversize redfish was caught using cut mullet. The bulls are still runnin.
10/10/2009, Felix Cavavos, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
43 inches, Bull Redfish, Monster Bull Redfish caught at the Port Aransas Jetty today by Felix Cavavos on mullet. Check out the girth on this bad boy!
10/10/2009, Richard Espinoza, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
38 Inches, Bull Redfish, Nice Bull Redfish caught at the Port Aransas Jetty while fishing with the Jetty Bandits.
10/10/2009, Luciano Garcia, Gulf of Mexico, Port A Jetty, Live Bait:
22 inches, Gaftop, Nice Gaftop caught at the Port Aransas Jetty on cut bait.

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