Island Outfitters Fishing Reports

It’s still winter but were still fishing when we can. The weather this year has been the worst I’ve seen it for a long time. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens this year with the influx of fish coming back into the bay system.

As of late I’ve managed to get out a few times inbetween northerns and the fishing has been slow to modorate. What we’ve been catching has come on white gulp again fished slowly in the potholes in south bay and Mexiquito Flats. Yesturday, John and Jimmie ended up with 5 reds and two trout along with a bunch of ladyfish, big ones too.

It’s still winter and we’re still fishing when we can. This has been the worst winter I can remember in a long time. Of course most of you could probably say the same thing.

As of late when we can get out we’ve been catching a few. The trout are still running in the 24″ range and fat. The reds are healthy too.

John and Jimmy ended up with 2 trout and 5 reds Yesturday with Jimmy catching the biggest one at 28″.

It’s been a little tough but you know what the say, when the going gets tough the tough go fishin:)

Things are starting to pick up a little bit more as Mike P. and I went out and snagged 5 reds and 4 trout in about an hour. Throwing Gulp we hit these fish pretty quick and came home to leave them for later.

 The weather is starting to get a little more stable which is helping a lot. Some beautiful water is coming in through the Jetties and some nice fish are coming in with it. Look around Port Isabel and the south end of the bay for fish to start showing up there first.

Well the year has started off with everything but a bang, well the fireworks woke me up at midnight. However, the fishing has been slow to fair. We have been able to catch a good number of trout and ieke out a limit of reds from south bay for the most part.

The trout seem to be biteing live bait better than the gulp right now, go figure. The reds are consuming cut bait better than anything else. The frontal passages just seem to be keeping them a little lathargic for the most part. But it’s like they say it’s better than being at work ……. for ya’ll:)

It’s been a while since I updated I know, but here is the latest. The redfish have been farely good and the trout fishing has slowed somewhat. We did manage to get limits of reds and trout yesturday and most of them came on topwaters. How fun is that!!!

The past few days have been good on the reds. Some are coming on cut bait and like i said before some on top.

The fishing has been about as stable as it gets. Lots of nice trout are coming from the edge of the ICW. White Gulp has been working best next to live shrimp. The sand is producing lots of reds on the fly. Spoon flies are working best there. Today Keven Hiles and Sergio Ramirez fly fished with me and landed 12 reds on the spoon fly along with many ladyfish.
We had lots of shots at some really nice trout but missed the few that tried to take.

TIght Lines, Skipper Ray

The last couple of weeks has been a real challange because of the spring winds. However we have been catching plenty of trout and reds. Last week I was guiding Tony Woodward and his freind Scott flyfishing, they managed to land 27 redfish and numerous lady fish and several large trout over the three days they fished.

Before that we had been hitting some early heards of redfish and limiting out on them in short order when we could find the schools. The wind makes it difficult but sometimes we’d get lucky.

 Limits of trout have been the norm over the last two weeks but as of late they have been a little harder to find because of the wind stiring up the waters where we have been catching them. All of the fish with the exception of the fly fishing have been coming on white Berkly Gulp. The fly guys were catching their fish on Spoon Flies.

Here is a video of Scoot Sparrows group when we were all fishing the sand flats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk9kyp7_DugTight Lines, Skipper Ray 956-943-2798

Well the fronts have not made it down and the wind has not settled and probobly won’t for a while. However the fishing is still great. 3-5&6-09 found us on the water again and catching our limit of trout on the same old bait I’ve been using, Gulp. The reds have been a little more spotty but we’ve still managed to limit on them as well. There again Berkley Gulp did the trick. So even with the extra wind the fishing is still good. Haven’t been able to try any flounder though. Tight Lines,

The fishing for this month has been as hot as I have ever seen it for this time of year. We’ve been catching lots of trout and reds with the reds running on the large side. The trout fishing has been great with limits plus being the norm. The trout have been of average size in the 17 to 20″ range. We’re catching them on white Gulp 4″ shrimp on a jig head. Look to the pot holes for the best action.