Saw LRHF's post on the freshwater thread and decided this thread was in need of a bump. My fishing buddy and I did a DIY trip out of POC couple of weeks ago. Made it down on a weekday, hardly any boats on the water. Had a great day with a bunch of shots. Had to deal with some clouds and water quality wasn't great but it was good enough. Got a chance to pole my buddy's skiff and get him on a fish. It was a great day, will be down there next week to do it again.

Buddy's Cayo headed to the launch. If you've never fished a Cayo, they are so sweet:


Headed out little Mary's cut as the sun came up:


Nice spots!:


My buddy on a fish:

Nice Cayo.

I posted my own thread but my new baby came home Tuesday.

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Brother, EVEN I MADE THE TIME to take a trip last week. First one since ringing in the New Year @ Cocodrie chasing bulls. I will say, the fish were anticipating my return to the water and welcomed us generously. Didn't take any still shots, but here's a video screen grab of one of many 2022 lettermen we taught the way of the fly.



Can't wait to see the Sabine in person TC. hint. hint.. E v e r g l....

Truth Bomb.

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It's fall y'all.

Now is a good time to be down. Fall fishing in full swing. Just got back from a week in POC and fishing the Borracho Pescador. If you or anyone wants some bow time, I'm always game to push. Here's a nice pumpkin.

1. Hire a moving company to pack everything, move it, and unpack in the new place.
2. Earn major brownie points with the wife for making moving a breeze.
3. Cash in said brownie points on a weeklong Everglades trip.

Pics from a week ago. Getting my 10 year old into fly fishing as fast as I can. Fished out of Seadrift this trip.

Weather was perfect. Water was still up a bit from that last rain. Personal best sight casting day for me, landed 5, my little guy broke one off a nice fish learning how drag works on a fly reel, and I lost another big one w a poor hook set. Amazing day! Great memories.




Auto filter decides to ban the picture of dad and his kid w the biggest fish of the day. Nice, TexAgs.

Day 1

Drove from Durango, CO to Albuquerque, spent the night and caught a flight to Houston. Uber to the woodlands and eat amazing redfish Tacos at Good Co. Cantina while I wait my fishing partner to leave work early with the skiff and drive to Delacroix Island, LA!

After a wonderful trip down I -10 we get a few hours of sleep and wake up to a foggy windless morning. Launch at the Hopedale Marina and head for the Gulf! We fished one flat along the way and spooked some small reds in skinny water.

We eased down to the gulf and conditions were dead calm... time to head to the Chandeliers!!!

Once the sun came up, we started seeing fish immediately and it was Game On! We fished the outside edge of the island with the trolling motor sight fishing to bull reds and black drum for hours.

We landed 18 fish, kept two under 28" and the rest were bulls in the 38-39" range. Saw massive schools of Black Drum!

The run home was equally calm. Had a couple of beers on the way back and enjoyed the scenery on the run through the marsh back to Hopedale. We have talked about making the trip to the islands for a few years but conditions never allowed and career stuff makes planning for the small weather windows difficult, pumped it finally all came together! We covered 107 miles on Day 1!

Day 2-

We generally use the entire day, we were lights at the Delacroix Lodge at 8:45 pm for another 4:30 am wake up.

We woke up to no fog, warmer temps (in the 60's) and dead calm! The boat is always wet and this am was no exception, the skiff was covered in bugs.

After a short drive to Hopedale, we launched the skiff and headed towards the gulf. The seas were dead calm but the cloud cover was pretty thick. It was clear that we could make another Chandeleurs trip and off we went!

The day started trolling the same shoreline but the outside waves were making for a sloppy cruise up the shoreline and the light was poor (clouds and still super early)

We saw huge schools of juvenile black drum, tons of rays and caught a nice bull in the surf (he was cruising the bank in shallow water looking for food and crushed the fly!)

The black drum were being pretty challenging but we did catch a small keeper. It became a bit too dangerous spotting from the poling platform and we made a move to an interior protected island.

I was on the poling platform (with the Pole) and we were targeting small reds. We caught a couple and started seeing some big fins out of the water in a little deeper water 100-200 yards off the shoreline. We eased over and hooked a bull. While fighting this fish, we started seeing more bulls swim by and caught our first double of the day. By the end of the day, we were well over 20 fish, had six "doubles" and stayed in the same area for the entire day. 4 other skiffs eventually joined us and there was a lot of whooping coming from all the boats, it was surreal! By noon, the clouds had moved out and we had great sight fishing conditions.

I've never see so many fish in my life! They would come in waves and while most were black drum, we would spot reds with them and pick them out. Our largest fish of the day taped out at 40" and the rest of the bulls were generally 38/39".

Thanks for following and feel free to ask questions, call, text etc! It was epic and would love to see others have a similar outing! I think our biggest take away is target the days where the wind is projected to be 5 mph or less to make the trip.

LRHF
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Thread bump…. Somebody upgraded their gear. Custom order Tibor Everglades that I placed right at start of Covid finally came in. Over a year and a half on order. Took a vacation day and went to Gordy and Sons and picked it up.

Cast a few 8 wts to pair w my new reel. It fit like a glove on a Thomas & Thomas sextant. Matte silver even matched up perfectly. So SWEEEEEET!!!!

Down in POC fishing today and tomorrow. Fishing report to follow.