The mother of a co-worker passed away and Tracy and I decided to attend the funeral in Alice, TX on Friday. Our flight was going to be fairly late and we would need to leave Needville at 5AM in order to make it to the funeral. Weather delays caused our flight to be VERY late so we decided to stay the night in South Texas.
I was able to contact the Wild Horse Lodge for a last minute reservation on Baffin Bay so I packed some fishing gear with plans on fishing off the pier.
South Texas has been receiving heavy rains along with the rest of the state so I wasn't planning on much. I picked up some dead shrimp and battled the wind for a couple of hours in the evening before supper at King's Inn.
Windy Bay
I threw the cast net and caught a couple of mullet so I tried some cut bait on the Penn/Fenwick combo that Paul gave me. I used this reel or one identical to it wade fishing with Dad and Mr. Beaty while I was finishing High School in Riviera. Great memories!
Mullet
Old Friends
Just like in the "good old days" I caught several hardhead, yellow tail and some small "puppy drum".
Black Drum
Almost Eating Size
Baby Whiskers
Some of the drum were barely legal (14" minimum) and I put them all back as I was hopeful that the bigger fish might move in later after dark.
The area is known for some other critters like these:
Santa Gertrudis Bull
Spoonbills and Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks
I fished after supper until Midnight but only caught more small bottom feeders and bait stealers. I didn't put anything in the ice chest but had a good time trying!
2 comments:
Reckon that wasn't your first go-round at the Kings Inn.
And not your first go round off the pier! That old rig looks good I am glad you got it back in the salt.
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