Light winds SE all weekend. Cloudy, high of 95. No red tide in Copano.
We fished a lighted pier a couple nights without much success. Little plastics brought up little trout, largest probably went 12". I even tried a few croaker and mullet and didnt do much better. We were fishing a slack tide, I suspect had we tried at 5am with moving water the action would have been better.
My cousin couldnt make it out on Sunday and I had expected to have to kayak fish, but he let me borrow the 24’ Shallow Sport. It drafts in 8" and can supposedly run in 3" and handles like you would think - with none of the boat in the water and just a little bit of prop when on plane it can do a 180 in about a quarter mile. We left at first light and being a tad uncomfortable in a borrowed boat, we put the power pole down and waded the northern shoreline of Copano for 3 hours. It was about 2.5" deep and most grass and mud bottom. The reds were thick and we did quite a bit of sight casting to tails. We fished tops (bone spook jr.) and tails (gulp 4"swim mullet and TTF flats killers) If you didnt land it on their nose, the lure would pick up grass and wouldnt get hit, so we only landed a few. Kept one at 25" for dinner.
I spent the ride back to Austin trying to justify to myself and the wife that we needed a boat to no avail.
We fished a lighted pier a couple nights without much success. Little plastics brought up little trout, largest probably went 12". I even tried a few croaker and mullet and didnt do much better. We were fishing a slack tide, I suspect had we tried at 5am with moving water the action would have been better.
My cousin couldnt make it out on Sunday and I had expected to have to kayak fish, but he let me borrow the 24’ Shallow Sport. It drafts in 8" and can supposedly run in 3" and handles like you would think - with none of the boat in the water and just a little bit of prop when on plane it can do a 180 in about a quarter mile. We left at first light and being a tad uncomfortable in a borrowed boat, we put the power pole down and waded the northern shoreline of Copano for 3 hours. It was about 2.5" deep and most grass and mud bottom. The reds were thick and we did quite a bit of sight casting to tails. We fished tops (bone spook jr.) and tails (gulp 4"swim mullet and TTF flats killers) If you didnt land it on their nose, the lure would pick up grass and wouldnt get hit, so we only landed a few. Kept one at 25" for dinner.
I spent the ride back to Austin trying to justify to myself and the wife that we needed a boat to no avail.
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