Last summer, Karla and I took a fantastic trip to Coeur d'Alene, ID to fly fish and play golf. CDA was awesome and I encourage anybody looking for that type of trip to look into it. This summer the early plan was to head to Bozeman, MT to replicate the trip in a new area with golf and fly fishing. Well, I opened my big mouth and suggested we do a Texas Cast and Blast trip instead since Karla has been wanting to shoot a black buck.
Typically we head for cooler weather during our summer vacation, so this was going to be a big change of pace. Since moving to San Antonio, we have not taken a trip to the Texas Coast. I booked two days with Eric Knipling of South Texas Fly Fishing going out of Rockport. The plan was to fly fish unless we didn't have favorable conditions and then we would use light tackle.
The weather turned out great and we got on fish, but couldn't quite get to them with the low tide. We waited them out, watching red after red tailing in the water. We spent the morning with light tackle as it presented us the best opportunity to get on the fish.
We ended up catching a couple of reds and a black drum.
We headed off to Paradise Key to have them cook us up our fresh catch.
On day two, the focus was on fly fishing but unfortunately our guide has motor issues and we only spent a few minutes fishing before we made the decision to come in instead of getting stuck on the water. I was pretty bummed not to get to fly fish down there so I am already looking at trying to plan my next trip. I did stop by Roy's in Corpus to buy me a new fly fish setup on the way home so not all was lost in my attempt to add another hobby to my list.
Typically we head for cooler weather during our summer vacation, so this was going to be a big change of pace. Since moving to San Antonio, we have not taken a trip to the Texas Coast. I booked two days with Eric Knipling of South Texas Fly Fishing going out of Rockport. The plan was to fly fish unless we didn't have favorable conditions and then we would use light tackle.
The weather turned out great and we got on fish, but couldn't quite get to them with the low tide. We waited them out, watching red after red tailing in the water. We spent the morning with light tackle as it presented us the best opportunity to get on the fish.
We ended up catching a couple of reds and a black drum.
We headed off to Paradise Key to have them cook us up our fresh catch.
On day two, the focus was on fly fishing but unfortunately our guide has motor issues and we only spent a few minutes fishing before we made the decision to come in instead of getting stuck on the water. I was pretty bummed not to get to fly fish down there so I am already looking at trying to plan my next trip. I did stop by Roy's in Corpus to buy me a new fly fish setup on the way home so not all was lost in my attempt to add another hobby to my list.
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