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I know turkeys will do what turkeys do, but gosh dang it...opening weekend kinda sucked. I had one lonely hen respond to my calls. Last weekend, while scouting, I called in and roosted a gobbling fool of a tom turkey. I went back during the week and confirmed he was still in the same area. Opening w...

I took my kids and the neighborhood friends to Alligator Point. We parked at the last public parking area across the road from the bayside boat ramp; about halfway down the point. Last year, we tore up the grunts, sand trout, whiting, and reds. I was expecting the same thing this year. We fished for...

We found some fish near the long sandbar, in between the channel and the sandbar. We used live shrimp on knocker rigs. The water temperature was 67, and the depth was 12’. We caught a mix of sand trout, speckled trout, grunts, and a 15” croaker. Almost all of the bites took place between 12:30 - 1:3...

Just finished watching a great interview on Panhandle Outdoors with Chris Harwood that talked all about the NFRS fishing tournament series. Check it out on YouTube. Search for Panhandle Outdoors and find today’s show Tuesday 2/16/21. I am not a hardcore redfisherman, but I might participate for the ...

I was able to get registered at the link.

My intuition not to take the boat out finally paid off! Glad you found a couple for dinner.

Lays potato chips and ice cold beer

Is that the ramp at Bull Headley? Last time I was there you could walk on dry lake bed 50 yards past the dock.

Those excited kids were probably in my boat. I had 5 with me on Sunday, and they were hyper at times! Impossible to keep them quiet.

Today was even better than Saturday! One of the twins landed a 14” black drum by himself and the other twin caught two trout. It was fun showing how to read the Garmin and all the controls in the boat. I think I have some new fishing partners! We caught our fish in the vicinity of marker 40. The fis...

In spite of a late start we did fairly well today. We stayed in the river and anchored near oyster bars within casting distance of the grass banks. We caught two keeper flounder, one short trout, one puppy drum, and a pinfish. All of the fish were caught on ⅛ oz jig heads tipped with frozen shrimp a...

My outboard engine caught on fire today! Recently, the tilt & trim unit was malfunctioning, so I had it worked on. It looks like the solenoid overheated and caught fire. I was able to quickly put out the fire...thank goodness I keep two fire extinguishers on board. No other damage was done to th...

I fished Lake Talquin for the first time in many, many years. I should have gone on a nicer day. The wind was ferocious! I put in at Blounts landing around 1:00, and put the boat back on the trailer 30 minutes later after a wave crashed over the gunnel. Not one to give up early I decided to try Coe ...

My boys and I have been fishing the East flats and west flats Saturday and Sunday. First, we hit the sandbars and load up with pinfish and grunts. Then, we anchor near channels and troughs and set out some free lined bait and cut bait on the bottom. Saturday we landed two four foot blacktops, three ...

It’s hard to beat a lively pinfish about the size of your hand, 24” under a cork rig, for catching tarpon. I experienced the same thing Saturday. We were drifting in 9’ near the sandbar when we noticed rolling tarpon within easy casting range. We tossed a couple small pinfish (2” long), but didn’t g...