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 …
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 …
I Got the Blues
Since my baby left me, I.........Im kidding it's not that kind of blues, it's not the Double Wide Blues either although if you don't get that reference to the great Todd Snider song you should look it up. It has nothing to do with fishing but it is great tunes. I'm talking about these blues. The beautiful or ugly, depending on who you ask, blue cat of Lake Tawakoni Texas. When the water gets cold in late winter I always try to find my way to Lake Tawakoni to fish with David Hanson of Little …
