Fishing Reports from Rockport Guides

Sept. 24, 2011

We started the day to calm seas and a beautiful sunrise. Today the bait of choice was live shrimp under a popping cork. The action was fast for speckled trout but most were undersized. We also caught several lady fish (skip jack) which we kept for cut bait later. Mid morning we decided to look for some redfish. After a couple of undersized redfish, we found a school of nice redfish and the action was fast and furious for a couple of hours. We had several fish on at once and had all our lines tangled several times. Plus we lost a couple of nice fish on the oyster reef. The secret is the fresh cut lady fish. It is like candy to the redfish. Everyone caught fish and all had a great time. Some of filets were on there way to a local restaurant for the happy fishermen and fisher-women for dinner.

Posted by Capt. Ray Burdette