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 […]
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 […]
Read: When the Lilies Bloom »
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 […]
Read: Thank God for Texas Saltwater »
Posted by: Larry Bozka on March 16th, 2008
I’ve edited several major fishing magazines in the past three decades-plus, and of all the challenges I faced, one of the greatest was the perennial attempt to come up with an original headline wordplay about the annual spring drum run.
“Beat the Black Drum” (I’ll bet you a dollar that one has already made print, or […]
Posted by: Larry Bozka on March 15th, 2008
This won’t come as an epiphany to old salts, but we’re at the time of year when mud matters. Mud bottoms are dark, and as such, they draw heat much more rapidly than light-colored sand and shell. (Think tar paper or asphalt on a sunny day.)
Throughout the winter, the shallows’ quick-to-warm quality plays an essential […]
Read: Springtime Redfish and Trout Hunters: There Will Be Mud »
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