Pelican's and Dolphin at the Texas Land Cut

Had a great time going out to the Land Cut with a couple friends, Jeffery Fife and Alejandro, from Houston. However, this would be a little unusual trip as we ended up feeding the pelicans and dolphins. Things were just starting to heat up after catching a few skip jack. We tossed one of these fish to a pelican that was too lazy to go after his own meal. As it turned out this pelican couldn't even catch a free meal right.

Soon after catching some speckled trout and sheepshead we had a large pod of dolphin crowd in our fishin spot. One of these dolphin seemed to poke his head up close to the back of our boat where we anchored and thank us for tipping them off on all those good fish.

Incredible, I have never seen so many dolphin all at once that swam around our boat as long as they did. Alejandro was starting to act like a Sea World dolphin trainer... hey boy, come here boy. 

Jeffery Fife catching a nice sheepshead off of live shrimp from Clems marina

These sheepshead are actually very good to eat, though they are a pain to fillet. They're very bony but worth the effort. Checkout this guys teeth? These things can at first be a little creepy because they sport front teeth like a human, though they do need some braces. 

We were able to get a few speckled trout in the bucket. Jeffery showing off one of the nice ones. 

This time of year we don't see a lot of redfish but Alejandro showing this undersized red that found his hook. Hey, they have to be 20 inches to keep. Oh well. 

Normally I wouldn't be all that excited about catching a stingray... But hey, this is Shark bait for a Men's young single adult outing this August. This stingray is on ice until our shark event ;o) If we catch a shark this year I'll be thinking of Jeffery's donation to the cause. 

Y'all have a great day of fishin,
Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com

No Bananas at the Texas Land Cut

Enjoyed a nice day of fishing at the Texas Land Cut with Glen Evans from Springville, Utah and Roger Royce from Austin, Texas. We got started early Wednesday morning with some live shrimp from Clems Marina. 

As we anchored up along the shoreline of our fishing spot we started casting our bait along the shoreline with

hopes of some nice catches. We started to get several small things in our way that kept adding up. We lost three or four fish to broken hooks, lost half dozen leaders to snags on the bottom, lost several fish as we were about to land them on the boat, and caught several undesirables like hard-heads. Roger and I managed to land a few keeper speckled trout but the keeper fish seemed to elude Glen. With further investigation we discovered that Glen had smuggled on board the boat a banana! :o/ Now I don't consider myself a superstitious person, but when it comes to fishing, don't take the chance. Glen had never heard this superstition but he quickly tossed the banana overboard with hopes of breaking the curse.We moved to another location along the Land Cut and quickly began to improve our fishing. Things were getting back to how they should be catching some nice fish for the day.

We certainly had a lot of fun fishin with some friends and catchin some fish. I might have to pick up a banana scanner that will detect and alert me when a banana is entering the boat. 

Y'all have a great day of fishin,

Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com

Idahoans at the Land Cut

Roy and Jerry visiting family from Idaho joined us for a high adventure fishing trip to the Texas Land Cut on Wednesday May 15th. High adventure because of the high winds and waves we had to cut through to get there. We had to wait for a thunderstorm to blow through before we could begin our fishing journey. Delayed by 2 hours we picked up some live shrimp at Clems marina enjoyed a rough boat ride to the land cut. 

First cast of the day David pulled in this nice 27 inch black drum. Great start and a good sign for things to come

 It didn't take long before Joshua landed this nice 23 inch black drum. Our trip was looking good.

Roy and Jerry landed several nice speckled trout. Pictured are some of their best catches. Everyone caught speckled trout for the day and made for a nice fish fry that evening with the family.

The boat trip back was a little harry with gusts up to 25-30 mph. All in the cost of catching fish. Enjoy the video created on this land cut trip.

Dave Alexander

dave@justgofishin.com

March Madness at the Texas Land Cut

Great trip to the Texas Land Cut last Wednesday (3/13/2013). Good friend of mind and "rod smith" took a nice boat ride to the land cut during spring break. This time of year usually doesn't disappoint and it didn't on this day either. Winds were coming from the Northeast which is good for this area (Best when they're Southeast). We managed to pull in some nice catches for the day using live shrimp from Clems Marina.

 Manual Lara polled in this nice 23 inch Black Drum. The Black Drum were in deeper water at the land cut. About 20 feet off the shoreline. Water temp was 65 degrees.

Our redfish catch of the day was 23 1/2 inches. What was a little surprising was the lack of speckled trout this time of year. We caught a few undersized speckled trout but the slots were not around.  

Dave Alexander
dave@justgofishin.com 

Ceaser and Lucy's Land Cut Trip

Check-out these nice catches sent over on a recent fishing trip "Ceaser and Lucy" made to the Land Cut. The Black Drum are runnin right now and can be a lot of fun for anglers. These beauties were displayed at Clems Marina.

Ceaser and Lucy caught this nice 40 inch redfish on a custom fishing pole made by Manual Lara. People know Ceaser and Lucy as the owners of Mosca Boat Manufacturing.

Now thats a Black Drum!

Congratulations on a great day of fishin to Ceaser and Lucy!

Dave Alexander

dave@justgofishin.com 

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

VX-30 Bloodhounds Fishing Texas Land Cut

The VX-30 Bloodhounds came to Corpus Christi and squeezed in a fishing trip with JustGoFishin. Commander James P Borghardt, Jay Rodriguez and Shane Skopak were on a mission to observe and photograph the entry on the Space Shuttle Endeavour as it entered Earth's atmosphere for the last time on June 1st, 2011. The Bloodhounds landed in Corpus Christi after completing their mission and decided to JustGoFishin.

It was truly an honor to take these young men out fishing for a little R and R for all the great work they do in serving their country and protecting our freedom.  It was great to here there impressions of the how fast the space shuttle was moving as they maneuvered into position to observe Endeavour.



We got together at about 7:00am and headed south to the famous Texas Land Cut in hopes of a good day of fishin. We anchored up and placed some nice live shrimp from Clems Marina on our hooks to see how the day would start.

Jay Rodriguez who had never before gone fishing caught this ugly dog fish right off the bat. Course it's usually a good sign that fish are biting. We hung in there for something more edible.

Jay found a nice speckled trout looking for a quick meal and landed his first "Keeper" speckled trout.



Matt Skopak landed a nice speckled trout. Below he catches the only redfish of the day. turned out to be just short of a keeper. But the fight was fun.

CDR James Borghardt had a great time pulling in some terrific speckled trout. I had no idea the "Borg" was on our vessel... you know... Resistance is futile, at least for these specks.

What a terrific group of guy's working for Uncle Sam and taking a quick break to go fishin. The weather was great and just awesome to be outside catch-in a few fish.





Dave Alexander

dave@justgofishin.com

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