Readers often ask me about my favorite ever flounder catch or moment. It occurred May 16, 2009 when the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department stocked flounder for the first time and I had the privilege and honor of releasing the first fish. Here’s the blog I wrote at FlounderRevolution.com that day. Enjoy. In what...
I am hearing lots of good reports from reliable sources that good numbers of quality flounder are being caught. Here’s a host of rod builder Gary Talbot with a big Sabine Lake fish he caught while he and former TF&G writer Skip James were working the Louisiana shoreline. Look for some really big fish...
Back in June David Trove of Baytown won a trip to fish with yours truly at the TF&G Family Fishing Clinic. This morning we made good on the trip but things didn’t look good at first. The wind started off blowing 15 miles per hour and ended up at steady clip of around 25....
A couple of weeks ago my father and I go went for a morning fishing with our friend Lewis Hogan. I was fishing with a bait under a popping cork, a Paradise Popper Xtreme to be exact, along a shoreline in the Intracoastal Canal near Sabine Lake. I looked over and saw a 10...
Last night I had the great privilege of spending time on the water with my longtime outdoor writing comrade (and amazing artist) Sam Caldwell. We were guided by Jennifer Bixby and Jonathon Daigle of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s Sea Center Texas. Sam and I were working on stories for our publications (TF&G...
I spent today teaching on advanced flounder fishing strategies and conservation at Sea Center Texas in Lake Jackson as part of my Flatfish University (TM) project. One of the attendees asked how Louisiana’s Lake Calcasieu can crank out so many redfish, speckled trout and flounder in comparison to most Texas destinations with no stocking...
Just got this note from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department biologist on Sabine Lake Jerry Mambretti. “As of now, we have not found any stressed or dead fish or turtles in the Sabine Lake system. We have been looking since Wednesday and will continue to monitor the system.” A story written by Shannon Tompkins...
As noted in my last blog of 2010, one of my goals for 2011 is to find new big trout habitat on Sabine Lake and surrounding waters. Today I went into a spot I had fished by a hundred times but never made it into. This afternoon I donned the waders and found the...
Too often as hunters and anglers we just expect good things to happen. By stepping foot in the woods or venturing onto the water we tend to think we stand a good chance of seeing our outdoors dreams come true. The reality is a truly productive outdoors lifestyle that sees exciting things happening on...
Wow, I’m back! This has been my longest gap from blog writing since we got the site up. I will be back to doing three to four a week now and have lots to share with you. Over the last few months I have been doing a lot of flounder fishing. (Go figure) And...