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I covered this topic in an issue of Salt Water Sportsman last fall, and have gotten enough requests for the info that it arguably merits another look.
The subject?
A handy little technique that I simply call “stationary downrigging.”
Most fishermen, understandably, equate downriggers with trolling. “Controlled-depth fishing” is the name of the game, but unknown to many, […]

Read: “Stationary Downrigging” Affords a Calculated Deep-Water Angling Edge »

SURFSIDE, TX – If you have driven over the Surfside Bridge lately, you’re bound to have seen it. As you’re heading toward Surfside Beach, cresting the bridge, to your right is situated a brand-new (and really big) facility that has changed the face of sport fishing amenities on the Upper Texas Coast.
 My friend and video […]

Read: Surfside Marina Now Open to Sport Fishermen »

Although a bit windy, we just said goodbye to a very pretty springtime weekend blessed with blue skies and pleasantly cool temperatures. It was also one that my friends Danny Marshall and Mike Pickell of Seabrook are not likely to forget anytime soon.
 Fishing the Matagorda Bay System for only the second time in their lives, […]

Read: Variety Pays: Team Shake N Bake Takes Second in Plugger Open Pro-Am Trout Series Matagorda Tournament »

A quick look in the backyard confirms it.
The Easter lilies are blooming.
There’s your sign, coastal angler.
It’s trout time.
Capt. Tom Holliday has been gone for several years now. Still, every March, when the blood-red blooms of the lilies burst forth from the greenery below the big tallow tree outside the master bedroom window, I think of […]

Read: When the Lilies Bloom »

Artist Jack Cowan captured it in his paintings as best as any man could.
But with all due respect to Cowan’s legendary talent, there’s still no
substitute for the real thing. Nothing even comes close—not to what I’m
looking at right now, anyhow.
Their blue-fringed tails shimmer brightly in the velvet-soft glow of a
blazing sun. The big orange ball […]

Read: Thank God for Texas Saltwater »