Snook Fishing
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Well, Snook is something I’ve dreamed of catching for a long, long time, unfortunately, where we fish, there’s not much snook to be had. I’ve fished all along the shorelines of the King Ranch and Lower Laguna Madre pretty much all my life and have not ever once caught a snook. Heard of them being caught before but they are too elusive or early morning or whatever you might want to add there to get on my lure.
I do know that I’ve caught a lot of redfish in my life and from everything I’ve ever heard about snook you can kind of compare them of something of a cross-breed between a redfish and a tarpon. Having had the pleasure of catching both in my life (leaning very strongly to the redfish side of the house) the sheer brute force of both of these species of fish is simply exhilirating to me and all the light tackle fishing that I do. But as far as Texas Snook Fishing goes, I’m still batting a big fat zero.
According to that article there are quite a number of these little beauties to behold in just the area that I fish during certain times of the year. Of course I’m on the lower end of this little mantra but I’ve still yet to taste the succulent little morsels of a snook. I do like the little disclaimer though that the population of snook in South Texas compared to Snook fishing in Florida is quite meager.
Anyways, off to the point at hand. Was on the phone to the bro again the other day and looks like we’ll be taking a jaunt off to those pristine Florida waters for a little RnR, no that’s not rest and relaxation, that’d be rod-n-reeling to get our hands on some of those Florida Snooks. I’m giddy with anticipation, eventhough the trip won’t be for quite a while, but to have something that fights like a tarpon but you can eat it like a redfish is just going to be great.
Ever caught one? Let me know. I get one of these and it’ll be another species I can check off that list of “Fish To Catch Before I Die” list!
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Ode to my Texas Fishing Bro
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Growing up, we were always afforded a lot of opportunities to fish living on the coast. Texas fishing was not just something we did, it was a major part of our lives. I can remember coming home from school and him and I leaving notes on the kitchen counter that homework was done and we were going down to the hole to do some fishing. We’d jump on our bikes and take off with the handle from a tacklebox attached to one side of the handlebars so we could carry it and our fishing poles stretched out the front of the bars pointing forward like we were off to a jousting tourney. Times change, you get older, get married, have kids and you get less of those times to spend together. We got lucky this weekend to catch up and do some good old Texas fishing once again together, even if it was only for a few hours. By all means we still fish every chance we get, just not much together anymore due to logistics.
Today was a day we went a little old school, probably because we were tired from the night before, but we decided to go natural and do some Texas fishing with live bait. We picked up some lively shrimp from the local bait stand and headed out in the boat. We’ve spent a lot of time on the Laguna Madre and typically you don’t have to go very far. We ran for about 10 minutes down the King Ranch shoreline to hit the first preferred spot. Unfortunately for us, it seemed to be the preferred spot of about 10 other boaters. Deciding to give it a go anyways, we made our first drift starting out in the deeper water so we can get in close to the shore without disturbing anything (unfortunately there are many other boaters on the water that DON’T KNOW ABOUT DISTURBING SOMETHING, especially the ones that drive right on thru between you and the shore). A little boaters etiquette here could go a long ways, if boats are drifting into a shore, don’t run between them, it only takes a second to maneuver along the backside of drifting boats. Enough rant, was able to hookup on a few little Texas trout, nothing to write home about. So we decided to ease out of the way of the others there deciding that we’d take our Texas fishing journey a little further up the intercoastal waterway.
We’ve been fortunate enough to have had many family cabins down the intercoastal waterway and know how to navigate around the spoil islands along the way. Our grandfather used to have one that was fairly close and we both remembered being able to catch a lot of fish there. So we worked our way over to where it was located, baited up and started a new drift, with no boats around. The water looked very promising in this location for Texas fishing, a lot of good sand patches mixed throughout the grassy bottom. It wasn’t long before this beauty about tore the pole out of his hands as he was busy messing around and talking and not even watching his cork. This fish was spectacular and didn’t even really act like a redfish that we’ve caught before. First, he kind of floated up to the surface and then thrashed his head back and forth kind of like a shark would once it realizes it’s hooked in an effort to throw it. Fortunately for Sam, it was set pretty well. Then the fight ensued. That redfish put it’s shoulders into it and took him for a little ride back and forth across the boat. He even went under the boat at one point. When he finally tired and rolled alongside the boat, his day was done.
Unfortunately, that was were our Texas fishing “reunion” ended. We had to head back to shore as my wife was throwing his wife a baby shower (congratulations, by the way) and we had kid duty. So needless to say, little bro beat me today, but hey, who’s really counting anyways when you can spend some quality time Texas fishing.
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Welcome to Texas Fishing Home
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