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

Posted by: Larry Bozka on April 21st, 2008

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, […]

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TPWD Fishing Reports Added; Photo Gallery Viewing Note; Spring Boating Reminders

Posted by: Larry Bozka on April 18th, 2008

One development, and one usage tip regarding CoastalAnglers.com …
We have added the Texas Parks & Wildife Department’s Weekly Fishing Reports to our links. These reports do not go into great detail as a rule; however, they do give you a quick and up-front look at coastal (and freshwater) angling developments and trends as they occur.
Secondly, […]

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The Feisty, Tasty Sand Trout is Well Worth a Cast

Posted by: Larry Bozka on April 13th, 2008

 They run in schools, but they don’t get nearly as large as their speckled cousins. They’re aggressive feeders, prone to feeding binges that will help an angler of any skill level collect a fair-sized freezer bag of fillets in very short order. Like speckled trout, they have onion-skin-thin mouths, and are pretty adept at throwing […]

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When the Lilies Bloom

Posted by: Larry Bozka on March 29th, 2008

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 […]

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Thank God for Texas Saltwater

Posted by: Larry Bozka on March 18th, 2008

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 […]

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