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Watercress and lilly pad bass require veggie-chopping braid and a rod no lighter than MH (heavier is better). Not sure why the frogs are a problem. Here's a frog-style crayfish pattern, and my frogger reel with Japan's hardest 45-lb braid. https://i.imgur.com/FPtD7Vgm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kgeo9Sam...

Michael, thanks for the detailed account.

Everyone, but I think your fishing is targeting and harvesting the right fish, won't go to waste, and fits in with conservation agenda.

Have a taco, counselor.

99% of the speckled trout I harvested over my life were male, because I always fished the structure and tide where the schoolie males came to us. I can count on one hand the number of injured females we filleted in 8 years of fishing Arroyo dock lights. http://i.imgur.com/su3iDUhm.jpg http://i.imgur...

Thanks for the great report, even without fish photos. Clear glitter doubles up for glass minnows for trout - they will eat a larger lure for slashing into a bait ball. TSL Grasswalker Coastal Gold has scored trout for me, and you're right about hook-up ratios. https://i.imgur.com/oHD0TNf.jpg I've f...

glad to hear you're making progress, and found the right shop

Maybe somebody can recommend a good Houston reel repair shop. https://www.quantumfishing.com/en/support/resources/find-a-retailer-service-center Assuming your clutch is working fine - push the button it freespools, crank the handle, pinion engages and clutch releases fully (usually w/ a 2nd click), ...

Heck of a trip - I'm jealous.
The weather yesterday turned out a lot better than the prediction, though the wind came on strong late.
Very nice hill country bass.
Thanks for the report.

Jim, I'm sorry to hear you're going hungry. Maybe ask Glenn if you can paddle along to his slough one day.
Congrats on the upper slot red, now you need a camera.

fwiw, S-glass has the same equivalent modulus as cane, and even though this rod is rated 1/4 to 1 oz, it skip-casts 1/8 oz off the tip like that's all it was made for - a quality of S-glass. https://i.imgur.com/cXmO9kHl.jpg I have the same niche in river kayak filled with an even shorter, 5' rod, it...

Sorry Ron, how about now? that's awesome friend - thanks for the extra effort. Last year, I put this together, 6' S-glass with backbone, just for close skip-casting 1/8 oz bunny shrimp to redfish backs in sloughs. The centrifugal cast is intuitive for me. But I've yet to get it on redfish backs - I...

Glenn, I love the fish photos, but you're going to have to write paragraphs before my old eyes can read it.

Quite simply, there never was a myth that all trout eggs are laid by big females. The math is simply the probability of catching females. Below 16", odds are 50/50 of killing female trout. Above 23", odds are greater than 95% of killing female trout. 17 to 23", odds are better than 90...

Great day on the water, great results, photos, great report. Thermacell works. https://i.imgur.com/kH25RMQl.jpg When we set up a trailer in the still-air scrub at Josh's Copano digs, a mat goes down, we set up tables for rigging and lounging, and Thermacell gets placed immediately. Only way to toler...

DD is Back. BTW, I got a new Daiwa that's Back in Black. http://i.imgur.com/yXLQaJTm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lqz4ZDYm.jpg This is the SLP Works Zillion (body only), $210 imported through Amazon . Doesn't come with a spool or handle, but I'd change those out, anyway. If anyone wants a too-good deal o...

Hello friends, thanks for contributing. God Bless Huts. Their burgers, their onion rings, and their $5 shake was only $3.50 - I heard there's still one in the Austin Airport. If that's the other place, maybe there's a Huts in heaven, too. If you ever swing through Estes, there's a perfect burger sta...

Shoffer, You Go !!!

Episode ended righteously.

If it's appropriate for the case, we'd love to hear the list of charges.

This project goes back 12 years. The skeg is invaluable for solving windcock - keeping the boat nose downwind - and was a boon on this last-spring trip with Josh, letting me troll the wind and fish perfectly parallel to the bank without touching anything but my rod. https://i.imgur.com/K5Rh0Ky.jpg T...

Thanks for the detailed week-report, Jim. Also thanks for mentioning Chili Willie's - their onion rings are a food group - clone of now-defunct Huts. Lou said they're a heart attack on a plate, but they do my favorite once/yr grilled-jalapeno cheeseburger, and their fried shrimp and fish fillets are...

Good call on the wind.
Nina's snail find is beyond cool.
Thanks for the report.

This is the latest "winter" trip we've made to our favorite dock house, which is owned by Spencer Bell. 3 nights in the Texas tropics. https://i.imgur.com/ILW2mQOl.jpg Up front, I didn't get any photos of Texas Jim, who was there with his skiff, taking advantage of the dock boat lift. He w...

Perfect report, as always.
Beauty trout.
That's still a legal bag fish - the new rig will be implemented "sometime late in March"

heck of a day - thanks for posting photos

Glad you got out - nice report.

Look at you go Josh.