After several weeks of 100+ degree days it was time to cool off so I called the whole fam-damily and told them the plan, even my sister-in-law Roxy. When I was a kid I remember the men in the family doing what they called "hopper poppin", they took fly rods and popped grasshoppers around brush piles in the river. This never worked as good in lakes for some reason but still would yeild a few fish. Every fish in the water will eat a grasshopper but the big yellow hoppers seem to work best. They …
Food and Family
This post will be different than most I write but something happened that triggered a flood of memories and I realized this may be most of the reason I do what I do and I wanted to write about it. I get asked all the time why I kill an animal or how can I kill an animal and usually I say I eat them, that's the easy way out of the conversation as most folks can deal with that mentally even if they don't agree with what I do, but it's really more than that. Sure I do eat them and I love the …
July 4th at the coast
We spent the 4th in Sargent Texas, a cool little fishing town on the coast that's built around the canals which lead to the intercoastal waterway which leads to Matagorda Bay which leads to the gulf. Although it would be a real long boat ride to get from the canal to the gulf it can be done. I really liked the fact that any size boat could fish in this area, if you only have a small boat you could stay in the canals and on calm days the bay but a big boat can also get through the canals to the …
