Island Outfitters Fishing Reports

Been really busy as of late and haven’t posted any new reports since May, but here goes one now. Before the storm Alex came by we were doing great with limits of both reds and trout the norm. However, the tides came up with the storm and seemed to have scattered the fish. Since then the tides did not recede until yesturday some two weeks later. This made fishing really tough. You had to work hard for what we caught and are still doing that as of yesterday. Two reds and 3 trout is all we brought in but that was up a little from the last 3 trips.

The tides have finally went down now to near normal and I expect to find more concetrations of fish over the next few  days. It’s time to settle into our early summer patterns with trout holding on the ICW and the redfish to start schooling.

The wind has layed down a bit and the trout took off eating, or at least I finally found some concnetrations. Yesturday, Ryan Foster and his freind Megan managed a limit of trout and 4 nice reds. We also released a 26 in. trout while fishing for the reds. Using top waters Megan caught her first ever redfish. She said freshwater fish don’t fight that hard, maybe she’s hooked:) Good on ya girl…

Well the last week has been great. The rains quit, the fish were biting, and we’ve had a good time. Howard Nickols came down and fished with Lola. They managed to catch a limit of trout and reds.

Nathan Powers and his fishing buddy Robert caught a limit of trout but not any really good ones. Most were in the 18 to 20″ range. Two reds were also caught but the wind died for us that day and made drifting tough. The fist day of the last four trips we didn’t limit out on everything. Still catching them on Gulp, white..

Tight Lines,

Capt. Skipper Ray

The fishing has really picked up in the last week. limits of reds and trout are starting to show up now. Most are coming on live bait or cut bait. Some however are coming on artificial s. It’s just a matter of time before the big trout will be hitting top waters. Doug Stead caught a nice 29″ trout on top-water yesterday.

It’s time to get out there with em…..

Tight Lines, Skipper

Well the fishing is starting to pick up again with some trout coming in through the pass. Trout are showing up around the long bar and color changes, along Mexiquito Flats and around the ICW north of the bridge.

Reds have showen up on the gas well flats and on the east side along the sand edge. Most are being caught on live shrimp and gulp.

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:)