Doormat Days
New Title for Lower Laguna Madre Winds So it isn’t the first time, since being stationed on South Padre Island, that I have found neighbor’s doormats in the region of my front door. The long walkway...
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Monday Morning Variety Pack Word from up north is the roads are being coated and the faucets covered in preparation for days of freezing weather and precipitation, all as we head into February. Once...
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Monday Morning Sand Walk
A Perfect Weekend Gives Way You already know I don’t fish on weekends. As tempting as it was over the last two perfect days here on South Padre Island, I kept my lines dry, and watched the weather on...
View ArticleLos Pescadores Out of the Shadows
Into the Light The speed quickened this morning. That is because the press release for Los Pescadores Coffee and Outfitters – ON SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS – has hit the world broadside. The cat...
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GRTU TroutFest 2023
Wrap it up! I’ll take it! As we pulled into the campground parking lot, it was easy to be taken back in the brain time machine to one of the first TroutFest events I experienced all those years ago....
View ArticleMonday Morning Sand Walk
Honestly, there have been no two days exactly the same – since my arrival back on South Padre Island in October. While there are common “threads” to the days making weeks, generally, I open my door...
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Doing the Unstuck
Let’s Get Happy! Best of Monday Mornings to you this morning, from right here at the DFW station due north of the Messtroplex. Many of the local frogs had their water turned down to simmer due to the...
View ArticleNow That I’m Gone
Where Will I Go? Oysters. Some have pearls, and some just cut you like a razor, don’t they? Of course if you had oysters outside your door? You would know that already, or have the scars to remind...
View ArticleMonday Morning Sand Walk
Even the talking weather-heads are scratching their bald spots in the Rio Grande Valley. The weather that should be retooling itself into a spring shape, is still blowing and going – to the tune of...
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Monday Morning Toes Dragging
Drag-free is not what I would say about my energy this morning. I’m dragging. It comes after a first foray – night fly fishing on the Jetties at South Padre Island. It may not have been an...
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First Monday in April
No Foolin’ Slot Red on this fly – https://youtu.be/lZfrGIFCZCI Welcome one and all to the Monday Morning Sidewalk Sandwalk from right here at the South Padre Island fish camp. April begins the...
View ArticleLaguna Madre Redfish on Fly
With Captain Mark Machado We launched at the end of the Aldoph Thomae Park on the Arroyo Colorado, and turned into the skinny back bays of the Lower Laguna Madre to pole around, and eventually jump...
View ArticleMonday Morning Workout
The morning is shaping up fine here on the Lower Laguna Madre today. The wind is down, and there is only a small chance of rain today – forty-percent. The talking weatherheads say the sun will peak...
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Fly Fishing the Arroyo Colorado Texas
Arroyo Colorado April 2023 25-inch Speck. Friday I’ll be working the middle third of the Arroyo Colorado, out of Rio Hondo, Texas. It is part of a series on fly fishing on the Arroyo Colorado, and I...
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TO DO LIST
South Padre Island Texas If you haven’t already figured it out here at this website, then let me cut to the chase: The Lower Laguna Madre, for all the physical abuse it deals out, is the best Texas...
View ArticleArroyo Colorado Zone 1
Here is the first, and maybe the last, video on the upper Arroyo Colorado – from Rio Hondo to Harlingen Port. I have another video on the Zone 1 area, but it is even less productive than this one. And...
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One More Silver Dollar
“And I don’t own the clothes I’m wearingAnd the road goes on foreverAnd I’ve got one more silver dollarBut I’m not gonna let ’em catch me, noNot gonna let ’em catch the midnight rider …” The Allman...
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Monday Morning Lunker News
Welcome. It is a glorious Monday morning in North Texas, one that is custom cut for fat and happy bass to be on the move and still have a growl in their gullets. Thunder and lightning did light the...
View ArticleBrownsville Ship Channel Fly Fishing
Daytime Episode One I appreciate everyone’s patience as I slowly turn the crank on this old super-eight. Just another can of 1’s and 0’s coming at you from the Lower Laguna Madre of Texas. This video...
View ArticleWeekend Warriors
Carp are abundant this year on Lake Ray Roberts, Texas. It almost seems like a bad thing it's so good. The post Weekend Warriors appeared first on Flyfishing Texas.
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