Gonna be in Rockport/Fulton the first week of July for a family vacation. Looking for reqs for...

1. Guided bay trip - will be 7 adult males that will all be interested. Haven't heard yet if any of the ladies intend to come. I fully realize that will likely require 2 boats. My cousin may be able to get ahold of his inlaws boat. Would a guide allow part of our group to tail him with our own boat?

2. Spots for night time flounder gigging

3. Spots for wade/shore fishing

More importantly, spots to eat. Get a cold beer and pizza at Panjos

Very true. Ive spent a decent amount of time in Rockport over the years but really haven't been there post Harvey.

Trout fishing has been down since the freeze in rockport and it doesn't sound like this is a group that's wanting to get out and go on any marathon wades trying to find a few. I'd recommend getting a couple airboat guides and go hammer some reds in the back lakes. I'd start with Steve Smith, and if he isn't available he can probably point you in the right direction 210-260-3550

Should probably add that the 7 includes... An early 20s, 2 early 30s, 2 early 40s, a mid 60s and a mid 70s.

Open to catching pretty much whatever.
And you are right, marathon session is likely not ideal for most of the group.

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Wade spots:
Murph Park on 1781
Copano Bridge area
Behind the McDonalds in Rockport
Behind the Fin and Feather off the causeway to Port A

I have a boat so rarely wade from shore, but have hit some of those spots when the boat was in the shop.

Great food at Moon Dogs.

Moon dogs for casual. Always great food. Catch of the day frequently grouper.

Boiling Pot!

Paradise Key is located at Cove Harbor and is pretty solid and they will cook your catch.

I haven't been to Crab Inn since they rebuilt, but the previous version was dang good.

HuDats.

You can wade Copano near the airport, look at google maps and see a couple of trails in there.

2. For gigging go with Dave Dupnick with Surrender at Sunrise
3. Lots of good food, Moondogs is good but currently not sitting parties of more than 8 so if the wimmenz go you're outta luck with that.

Los Comales and Boiling Pot are good as well.

Danny Adams can set up multiple boats. He runs airboats and bay boats.

Slinging Mullet guide services is another good one, can also coordinate multiple boats.

Moondogs, Pop's and Panjos for food

ToHntortoFsh said:

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2. For gigging go with Dave Dupnick with Surrender at Sunrise

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Was thinking more locations to walk/wade gig vs guided.

Moon Dogs Was closed last weekend. I didn't see anything saying why but I figured it may be permanently closed if they weren't open on the holiday weekend

*Edit to say we did go pretty early to avoid the crowds on Sunday so hopefully they just weren't open yet but it was after 5 o'clock

Some restaurants are still having trouble staffing up so hours have been reduced or they are closed certain days.

Wading and that number might not jive. Get everyone a chair and spread out on a pier. Someone will get a big ugly and have bragging rights.

If we wade or gig on foot it will likely be a smaller group. We should have access to a smaller private pier or 2 that will get visited at night and will end up being a larger group of us heading out.

Moondogs was open on Monday. Went by but didn't eat due to the wait. Went all the way out to Pops but it was closed. Ended up eating at JJ's and the food was very disappointing.

I am sure I saw one of you trying to get into Moondogs last weekend. The service staff at other places said that no one is working so a lot of places have shortened their hours or days open. We had good luck at Charlotte Plummer's and Hu Dat/Benchwarmers......they seem to have staff and I know some of them come from as far away as San Antonio every weekend to work.