Josh Swain and Jon McGinley are now part of Corpus Christi Police Department Marine Safety Patrol. This special unit has been working closely with the Texas Parks and Wildlife in their marine safety certification. Josh invited me out to help with their press release. "Helping" meant that I was the Guinea pig to get boarded for their press release at channel 3. I was glad that they didn't test out their pepper spray or their tazer.
You can learn more about this new special unit at the CCPD Blotter.
Once in a while you get a chance to go out with an ol' fishin buddy. Josh Swain and I haven't gone fishing together for a long time and it was great to get together and bend a few poles! The day sure didn't disappoint either... using live shrimp from Clem's marina Josh started off by catching this little Jack Crevalle which is a fish you don't often see at the Land Cut.
Black Drum are still very plentiful at the land cut as Josh shows off this nice catch for the dinner table.
The speckled trout were striking our hooks as well as we made some nice catches. These trout can really give you a fight and makes it a lot of fun.
We couldn't of asked for a better day to get on the water with a great fishin buddy. You might remember Josh in our blog post of May 2008. Wow, that was 5 years ago and we're still bloggin away. Josh was fishing with me when I caught my biggest black drum in March of 2009.
Not a bad line-up of fish for the day. We were just a redfish shy of a Texas Slam. We caught a rat red, but we only count the keepers.
