https://www.packtx.org RSS feeds for PACKTX 60 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/563/pack-outing-fence-lake-november-2018#Comments 0 https://www.packtx.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=56&ModuleID=377&ArticleID=563 https://www.packtx.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=563&PortalID=0&TabID=56 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/563/pack-outing-fence-lake-november-2018 <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">PACK Outing – Fence Lake November 2018</span></p> </strong> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /> </span></p> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">PACK had originally planned its annual Panther Point outing on Espiritu Santo Bay, but the weather and site conditions (<g class="gr_ gr_64 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del" id="64" data-gr-id="64">camp site</g> washed away) made us reschedule our planned date, to an alternate location, Fence Bayou/Lake on Aransas Bay St Jose Island.</span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Friday - Day 1</span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: black;">Fourteen outstanding men and 1 young lady set out on the Skimmer out of Fulton Harbor.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The weather was picture perfect, slack wind, flat and clear water.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The PACK Armada was split up into two groups.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Group 1 departed at 10:00, Group 2 departed at 12:00.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>After a 30-minute boat ride camp was setup on the Aransas Bay side of Fence Lake.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The water on the bay was crystal clear, and flat.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Everyone caught trout.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>It seemed that almost every cast generated a strike.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Granted most of the trout were dinks, everyone had fish to contribute to Saturday nights fish fry.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Several members in the group made there way over to Fence Lake where a very large trout was seen (picture <g class="gr_ gr_88 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace" id="88" data-gr-id="88">taken</g>).<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Keeper Reds and Trout were taken.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Bruce B had brought along his drone to survey and get a bird’s eye view at locating the fish.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Bruce generated three videos of the outing.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Everyone fished until sundown.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Day 1 was a day to remember.</span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Saturday - Day 2</span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000;">At about 5:00 am we were awakened by a very nosey Air Boat that was burning the <g class="gr_ gr_345 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del" id="345" data-gr-id="345">shore line</g>, with a rather bright flood light.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>At first light world <g class="gr_ gr_70 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="70" data-gr-id="70">war</g> III broke out.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Unbeknownst to <g class="gr_ gr_71 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="71" data-gr-id="71">PACK</g> Saturday was the opening day for duck season. <span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Fence Lake become a no go as long as Duck Hunters were there.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span><g class="gr_ gr_72 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="72" data-gr-id="72">Regrettably</g> the weather had taken a major change.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The wind was pumping 10-15 knots, creating choppy water conditions.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Even with the <g class="gr_ gr_73 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="73" data-gr-id="73">wind</g> the trout were still there, and we continued to catch and string a lot of trout.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>About 2 PM the Duck Hunters bailed and we went into Fence Lake.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Reds were taken.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Again, </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black;">everyone fished until sundown.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>And a special SHOUT OUT to all who made the fish fry so enjoyable - whether you were cooking, cutting, prepping or catching - it was very much appreciated!  We all slept very well Saturday night, even thru the midnight rain storm.</span></span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sunday - Day 3 </span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: black;">Sunday at 5:00 we were visited by the Airboat again.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>We rose with first light to be greeted by a rather strong wind, we broke camp and started fishing.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>At about 10:00 the wind really started to blow, and everyone struggled to get back to camp. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Duck Hunters also exited at the same time.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>The Skimmer arrived at 11:00 for the first group to return to Fulton.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>Brad V and his brother Randy fished Fence Lake.  They were following Bruce’s drone that was spotting/locating reds for them. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Brad reported that he was so excited that he <g class="gr_ gr_77 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="77" data-gr-id="77">casted</g> off his sand eel and had to resort to his down south paddle tail.  Casting to the drone location, he hooked a 12" red.  Then he saw a tailing red but didn't get him to eat.  Didn't see any more fish but Crabb crawled down the bay towards the mouth.  Picked up 3 more rat reds and 1-22"red.  Then as the water got a little deeper found 2 keeper trout.   Randy caught a couple small trout.  We had to quit at 1230 in order to paddle back to camp by <g class="gr_ gr_80 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace" id="80" data-gr-id="80">1pm</g> take out by the Skimmer.  </span></p> </strong> <strong> <p><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; color: black;">Great time had by all.<span style="margin: 0px;">  </span>All hands want to go back to Fence Lake when duck season is over.  </span></p> </strong> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;">Fence Lake 2018 Video</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #0563c1;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/R9vJH8muZOk">https://youtu.be/R9vJH8muZOk</a> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #0563c1;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /> </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;">Fence Lake 2018 Day 2 Video</span></strong></p> <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #0563c1;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://youtu.be/KbNADutBaMU" tabindex="0">https://youtu.be/KbNADutBaMU</a></span></strong></span> <div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #0563c1;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /> </span></strong></span></div> <div><strong style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 17.12px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;">Fence Lake 2018 Day 3 Video</span></strong></div> <div><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/p4yL3C-s1pU" tabindex="0">https://youtu.be/p4yL3C-s1pU</a> </strong></span><br /> </span> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;">Pictures</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.packtx.org/Photos/tabid/58/AlbumID/385-2311/Default.aspx" tabindex="0"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri; color: #0563c1;">http://www.packtx.org/Photos/tabid/58/AlbumID/385-2311/Default.aspx</span></a></span></strong></span><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"></span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><strong><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: #000000;"> </span></strong></p> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="color: #000000;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span><br /> </div> Ken J Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:48:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:563 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/469/pack-trip-report-goose-island#Comments 0 https://www.packtx.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=56&ModuleID=377&ArticleID=469 https://www.packtx.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=469&PortalID=0&TabID=56 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/469/pack-trip-report-goose-island <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;">PACK invaded Goose Island this past weekend for a campout and fishing expedition. The PACK Armada totalled 7 familiar friends, and 3 family members.  Being a PACK Outing, the weather played a factor.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Friday – All hand arrived early Friday morning.  The wind was pumping at a steady 20 mph from the SE, with gust +++, only to build during the evening.  Two of the younger guys did launched in the wind and gave it a try.  Only one hardhead was caught.  Both reported that paddling back to camp in the face of the wind was very difficult.  They were both totally exhausted.  That evening the wind really started to blow.  The waves were crashing over the park bulkhead creating a fine mist that coated everyone’s car with a salt brine.  Two of the guys moved over to camp in the trees to get away from the wind and waves.  Because of the wind rattling my tent, and the water spray hitting my tent, I abandon my tent and spent the night in may car.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Saturday – We woke to totally different weather conditions.  </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;">The wind was nil in the morning creating glass water conditions.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">  We launched from the base of the GISP Pier and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;">fished St Charles Bay, East pocket (Black Jack Point), and the area reefs.  Everyone caught fish.  Lots of small trout, but everyone was able to string enough legal fish for the night’s fish fry.  As usual Bruce B had the biggest stringer of 1 keeper Red, and 4 trout.  The evenings cookout consisted of fried fish, chicken tenders, fried onion rings, cole slaw, potato salad, olives, baked beans, and pumpkin pie.  All had a good feast.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Sunday – the temperature dropped dramatically, the wind now blowing from the North, all hands were digging out warmer clothes.  Two of the guys continued to fish, the rest of us bid farewell and headed for home.  A good time was had by all.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;">Tight Lines</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; font-size: 10.5pt; color: #000000;">Ken J</span></p> <span style="font-size: 16px;"></span> Ken J Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:06:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:469 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/440/trip-report-pinsyarborough-disappointing#Comments 0 https://www.packtx.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=56&ModuleID=377&ArticleID=440 https://www.packtx.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=440&PortalID=0&TabID=56 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/440/trip-report-pinsyarborough-disappointing <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong>Trip Report PINS/Yarborough – Disappointing</strong></p> <strong> </strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong>Only three hardy Kayakers made the trip.<span>  </span>We rendezvous at the PINS Malaquite Visitor Center.<span>  </span>We made our way 15 miles down the beach to the Yarborough Pass.<span>  </span>Driving the first leg of PINS was easy.<span>  </span>The weather was beautiful, surf was flat, water blue green all the way to the beach.<span>  </span>Upon arriving at the Yarborough Pass we got out of our vehicles and walked the pass.<span>  </span>We all agreed that not all of our vehicles would make it thru the pass without getting stuck to the Laguna Madre.<span>  </span>Plan B, we then decided to travel down the full length of PINS (60 miles) to the Mansfield Channel.<span>  </span>In the first leg down the beach Mike E complained that he needed to travel faster than 20 mph so he took the led to the Mansfield Channel.<span>  </span>On the way to Mansfield we hit soft sand.<span>  </span>Mike soon discovered that when his vehicle was in 4x4 he couldn’t travel faster than 10 mph.<span>  </span>It took more than a couple hours to make it down to the Mansfield Channel.<span>  </span>Upon arriving about 200 yards short of the Mansfield Channel we ran out of road/track.<span>  </span>The surf had cut away the track.<span>  </span>For us to make it all the way we would have to drive in about 100 yards in 2 feet of surf wash.<span>  </span>We noted that there were three groups camped at Mansfield, we walked up to their camps and spoke with one of the groups.<span>  </span>They reported trout were being caught at dusk, reds were being taken off the jetty, and they had driven in the surf.<span>  </span>We wanted the multiple fishing options that the Channel offered, surf, access to the Laguna Madre, and fishing the Channel, however none of us wanted to risk soaking our tire bearings in salt water, so we turned around with the plan to set up camp on the beach at Yarborough.<span>  </span>We started our beach driving at 10 am and arrived at our final camp destination at 6 PM.<span>  </span>8 plus hours driving the beach on Friday.<span>  </span>While transiting the beach, the surf conditions changed dramatically.<span>  </span>Surf was now choppy, water clarity dirty.<span>  </span>Safety lesson – while making it back to Yarborough Bob D the third (last) man in the convoy hit something resulting in a flat tire.<span>  </span>Mike E and myself had traveled 5 miles down the beach before we realized we had lost Bob.<span>  </span>We stopped and waved down a vehicle coming down the beach behind us and enquired about Bob.<span>  </span>They reported he had a flat right front tire, that he was sitting on his tailgate drinking a beer.<span>  </span>Mike and I were both short on gas and couldn’t risk going back without the fear of running out of gas.<span>  </span>Bob finally meet up with us, reporting another vehicle assisted him in changing his tire.<span>  </span>The lesson learned that the first vehicle and last vehicle both need to be in contact with each other.<span>  </span>Saturday morning brought us a new day, the coyotes had visited our camp during the night and gotten in our trash.<span>  </span>We had track marks all around our camp location.<span>  </span>The Saturday surf was choppy and dirty.<span>  </span>No way to launch kayaks safely into the surf.<span>  </span>Mike E decided to break camp and head for home.<span>  </span>Bob D didn’t want to head back to Austin on Sunday without a spare tire, so he headed to Corpus to find a new tire.<span>  </span>Leaving me alone to mind the camp.<span>  </span>I spent the day wade fishing the surf, caught 1 skipjack.<span>  </span>While wade fishing I observed a vehicle planning to drive the Yarborough Pass, 2 people got out of their truck and walked the pass, they returned to their truck, and another truck came out of the pass.<span>  </span>As soon as the truck came out of the pass the first truck drove into the pass.<span>  </span>About 30 minutes latter a lady walked out of the pass to the beach and flagged down a passing vehicle. The recruited rescue vehicle backed into the pass for the rescue.<span>  </span>30 minutes later the lady was on the beach again flagging down another vehicle for the rescue.<span>  </span>It gets stuck.<span>  </span>The lady appears on the beach a third time and flags down a broken down Chevy Truck that has a winch.<span>  </span>This vehicle rescue’s the three vehicle’s with the winch and sand anchor.<span>  </span>An hour later a Park Ranger in his F150 drives in and out of the Pass with no difficulties.<span>  </span>Sunday Bob and I broke camp and head for home.<span>  </span>The outing was disappointing, none of us got to launch our yaks, and I was the only person to wet a line.<span>  </span>As they say better luck next time.</strong></p> <strong> </strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong>Tight Lines</strong></p> <strong> </strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><strong>Ken J</strong></p> Ken J Sun, 14 Aug 2016 19:13:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:440 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/439/pack-trip-report--shoalwater#Comments 0 https://www.packtx.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=56&ModuleID=377&ArticleID=439 https://www.packtx.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=439&PortalID=0&TabID=56 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/439/pack-trip-report--shoalwater <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;">PACK Trip Report - Shoalwater</span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;">This past weekend 3 hardy PACK Members headed to Shoalwater.  Launched from Charlie's Bait Camp, and made the 6 mile paddle in little over 3 hours.  The wind was slight out of the SE.  We set up camp on Grass Island.  Barry S and Jim R exclusively fished with fly rods.  At about 2 PM the wind picked up to SE 15 mph, with heavy gust up to 20 mph.  Ken J fished conventional because of the wind.  We all saw fish but didn't catch any Friday.  Friday evening it rained.  Saturday the wind was still pumping, Jim and Barry fished the shore line of Grass Island, both catching their limits of Rat Reds.  Ken fished the grass line and limited out on dink trout.  Several PB saw our group catching fish and tried Pot Licking near us, none of the PB's were seen catching fish.  About noon time Saturday it started to rain hard, we all ducked into our tents with our muddy boots, now we all had mud in our tents, big mistake.  Sunday the wind had died down to nil, we broke camp and headed back to Charlie's while the getting was good.  We got rained on again on the way back.  What's a PACK outing without a little wind and rain.  We all had a good time, PACK will be back again next year.</span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;">Pictures:  http://www.packtx.org/Photos/tabid/58/AlbumID/385-2267/Default.aspx#SimpleGallery-385</span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;">Tight Lines</span></strong></p> <strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;"> </span></strong> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #4f81bd;">Ken J</span></strong></p> Ken J Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:30:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:439 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/435/bolivar-hilton-trip-report#Comments 0 https://www.packtx.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=56&ModuleID=377&ArticleID=435 https://www.packtx.org:443/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=435&PortalID=0&TabID=56 https://www.packtx.org/news/articletype/articleview/articleid/435/bolivar-hilton-trip-report As I recall, during the ten years that I've led this trip, lousy weather was a factor just one other time, so I really can't complain. For the 2nd time, I rented the beach house on Thursday night to make it easy to get an early start on Friday.Thursday night , about seven of us dined at the Stingeree Marina Resturant. Chris Busch and Frank Stanley both fished the marsh on Thursday, where Chris made the big catch of the entire weekend- he snagged a perfectly good Curado reel and nice rod right out of the water! Chris also managed a few keeper trout, but everything else was undersized. Fortunately, Frank did NOT get stuck in the marsh mud this year!<br />Friday was an absolutely beautiful day, but slot-size fish were a little hard to come by.I don't know if it made any difference, but the water was definitely higher than usual in the marsh. Several of us used live shrimp so just about every species of fish was caught, many of which were 16" reds. Russell Moses had good luck when he crossed the ICW and turned right, behind the island. He had a few nice reds and trout. Blake and his friend Ken also found some nice reds and flounder, but they traveled over 11 miles to do so! Good thing thing they were in peddle propelled Hobies. Later in the day, Bill Leary found some slot reds way back in the marsh near the golf cart, along with clouds of hungry mosquitos. Numerous small flounder were caught back there too. I found it odd that there were so few slot reds caught in the marsh, and not one Big Ugly.<br /> Fortunately, enough fish were caught for Saturday nights dinner, because the weather was terrible all day Saturday. Instead,, we spent the day playing dominos, watching college football,, eating and napping. Being stuck in a nice beach house STILL beats the hell out of being stuck in ones tent all day, in the middle of nowhere, in pouring rain!<br /><br />Our Saturday night feast was a little different this year, thanks to the absence of master-fish fryer Bruce Behrens. Instead Joel and Mike Smalley sauteed (or pan-fried) the fish in skillets on the stove. Prior to dinner, we were treated to Greg Corbutt's outstanding h'dourves of grilled oysters on the half shell. Russell also made some redfish on the half shell. And to top it off, Doby brought some homemade cream pies for dessert.<br /><br />Sunday was beautiful, but with high winds, so everyone was packed and on their way home by 9:30.. Although the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally was going on at the same time, it didn't cause any delays. One poor cyclist did have a pretty serious accident right in front of our subdivision Sunday morning.<br /><br />Despite not being the usual meathaul, it was still a most enjoyable weekend, and we look forward to next year. <br /><br />Joel <br /> Ken J Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:53:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:435