Island Outfitters Fishing Reports

Since the weather has cleared up from our three weeks of rains and wind, cool wind at that, the fishing just exploded, Limits of trout to start out the day, with limits of reds later on in the day. I’ve fished six trips in the last three days, taking advantage of the nice weather and fishing has been awesome. The trout are eating plastic and the reds cut bait. However site casting with gulp has been working too on the reds, but you have to show them the gulp before they’ll eat it.

Tight Lines and Happy New Year, Skipper Ray

Fishing SOuth Padres Lower Laguna Madre is heating up even better now. Trout are plentiful along the color changes and reds are still on the east side of the gas well flats. Yesturday we caught 15 trout along with seven reds but nothing over 24″. “Some days it just be’s that way”

Red fishing has been great as of late. The water is cooling down and clearing up since the summer storms. We are actually able to site cast to a lot of them. However meat has been the go to bait for most.  The last three trips we’ve managed limits of reds with a few trout thrown in too. Trout have not bee as thick as they were a couple of weeks ago.

Cut bally-hoo is the bait of choice for now, with Gulp for site casting. Top waters have been working as well when the grass isn’t too heavy that it fowls the plug.  

It’s sometimes hard to find time to post these things when your fishing everyday anad I appologize for that. But fishing has been really good as of late. Unlike most years with all the freshwater run off from Alex the trout fishing has been excellant and we’ve been catching them right here in our front yard so to speak. Reds on ther other hand have been around the same spots, the three island area so we still have to make that run up north to catch them. Limits of trout and reds have been the norm and flounder are non existant for the most part.

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.