Great Catches at the Texas Land Cut

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.

I was able to catch my personal best speckled trout on this day at 24 3/4 inches. Our speckled trout boat record is still held by Bryan Weatherston.

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.

Y'all have a great day of fishin,

Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com

27 Inch Speckled Trout at the Land Cut

Charlie Cook's last trip to the Texas Land Cut proved to be a great day! We knew that we had a window of opportunity to get down to the land cut before the 30 mile per hour winds kicked in the afternoon. Pick up the last of the live shrimp at Clem's marina and headed south.

After pulling in a nice redfish the bite got very slow. Then we saw 2 dolphin swimming away from our area. No doubt that our fish were scattered with those beasts in the water. We decided to be patient and it payed off.

Charlie was able to hook this beautiful 27 inch speckled trout. She was a nice fight as she finally gave it up and into the boat. As things turned out we were only able to fish for about 1 1/2 hours. The wind started to get stronger with whitecaps in the land cut. We knew that we would be crossing rocky slough and Baffin bay would be tough enough so we were happy with what we accomplished fishin.

Great to have Bill along visiting Charlie and Margery from Colorado



It's Charlie's last trip fishin with us here in Texas because he and his wife Margery have been on an LDS mission where they teach Gospel Doctrine to college student age groups. We know them as Elder & Sister Cook. After serving one year here in the Corpus Christi area they will be headed back home to Colorado in a few weeks. We'll sure miss them!

Y'all have a great day of fishin,

Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com