Stalked this fine fish in a transition area where a steady flow of redfish and drum lasted practically all day. Nailed it!
First-timer Wolf stuck this fine 27 inch redfish with a trick cast out from behind a a 3-stick mangrove at close range.
Shakin Tails with a Red Drum
Doubled-up First Timers
Skinny Water Trout, the big one got away
Vibrant Colors from Schooling Red Drum
Bah Bah Bah!!!! She ate with reckless abandon!
Diamond Redfish
Pat nailed this bronze 28 inch redfish
Cloudy with a chance of Redfish
Sight-casted Tailing Redfish
Letting Go of Big Red
Redfish Swim
Admiration of the Redfish
backing redfish
the color of the sun
Resting after the Battle
Crab Crusher
Texas Redfish
Whamo Slamo
Bull-Rushing Redfish
Redfish on a chain
Four Spots Loves Brown Crab Flies
Low-Light Stalking
See the fishy?
Top slot fall redfish
Fall Redfish are often brilliant orange
October Marsh Landscape
Orange and Blue Fall Colors on display
Brent’s first redfish with heart shaped spot
Doubled up Mud Reds on fly and spin in windy conditions!
Dredge yer Reds!
Rusty got’em!
1st Time Sight-Casted Redfish
Looking at fish looking at bait.
Hard earned but… Oh! How sweet it is!
Bull red in the Texas Marsh. Port Aransas Texas Fall Run
Bull redfish on the flats pulled out of a school of 200 fish strong!
Black drum
Big red trying to steal the fly from a smaller redfish
Topwater Redfish at Sunrise
Cord Grass Galore
Windy Fishy
Sunrise Tailing Redfish
Do you see it too?
Live Blue Crab
Black drum
Redfish in the sticks
Mid-slot redfish
Totem Odem
Hooked up again with a spare redfish on the side
this crawler couldn’t resist the blue crab fly
Blue Bird Days are coming!
Pothole redfish
Backs out of the water
Nonstop action
Twenty-eight point five inches
tailing black drum and floating redfish
dinner
Dark & Stormy
35lbs of raw power
pulling tricks with the blue crab fly
Caroline stuck several of these trout in spite of less than favorable conditions.
Gator trout pre-release
chartreuse and black shrimp fly
First cast of an epic day
Room for Two
Uber skinny redfish on 5wt couldnt resist the chartreuse shrimp fly!
peanuts catch big fish!
Good fun on the fly!
Mugshot
Mugshot
Salty Bendo on a 5 wt hooked up to a nice 22inch redfish in 6 inches of water
Giant Black Drum
Tailing Redfish can be found this time of year!
Monster Black Drum a.k.a. big uglies
Tom & Jerry
I sight casted this heifer from the rock with a crab fly!
David worked tirelessly on some of the toughest fish I have encountered this year!
Rich Waldner’s Spoon fly tricked this 29-incher with Outdoor Journalist Phil Shook on the long rod and with the fly of choice!
Hooked up again!
Redfish Head First
Redfish HOG
Big fish like to run these gauntlets right after the hookup
Bull redfish caught in 8inches of water.
Peek-a-boo Black Drum
Jack be nimble jack be quick and jack broke my Hatch!
Tom first Redfish on the fly
Sight casted in 6″ of water!
Black is a daytime color too
2015 is looking Good!
Nice Winter time redfish on fly
Beulah Produces great colors!
Chris nailed this one right at the boat!
Come to Poppa!
Let’em Go Dammit!
Fall Colors
Thick grass beds are the perfect hunting grounds for fall redfish
Nice redfish just over slot
Tails UP!
Catchin some air!
Eye of King Mackerel
This one measured 41 inches
Perma Smiles after 3 days of Fly Fishing for Tarpon
Hatch Reels withstand all the abuse you can dish out
20 minutes to GO TIME!!!
First redfish on fly for Adrian and its a beauty!
Bud’s Mud Minnows… Top and right are actually tied by Bud.
Bud Rowland’s Mud Minnow getting it done between storms passing in the distance
Guess I need to beef it up to 50-lb leader with 30-turn bimini twist and a 100-lb bite tippet!!!
South Texas Snook on Fly
20-25lb Silver King
Hooked Up
Rock Solid Tarpon
Tomjo at 2 months!
6+ Foot Tarpon was here
‘Ole Clouser getting it done on a 22inch sea trout
11wt Bendo on Jack!
Green is good!
Patience and Persistence brought this fine redfish to hand
There were too many of these to count!
Optical Illusion! A 24inch redfish looks like 19inches up against Justin’s stature!
Bowed-up redfish
Huggin the Big Ugly
Lucky PRG Hat!
Waiting for the fish to come to us… Staying on point with fly in hand
nice under slot size redfish specimen safely released
GUITAR SOLO!!!!
Extreme Angles with a King on a Leash
Surf’s Up for King Mack!
Vic with his keeper redfish that fed 4 people well.
Name that Fly
Hollow Fleye Seaducer
Maximum tension and quick hooks-set kept this mouthful of razors from slicing the 50-lb bite tippet.
Not dinner to go? Let it go!
Dinner Sized Comb Grouper on the Fly
Hard low and left angle on fish running right and tight to the rocks
Down in the S…
Port Aransas Redfish
25inch Spring Break Redfish
Glass Trash on the Beach uncovered.
Last catch of the day
Tim pauses to admire this fine 32.5 inch redfish before the release
Little Beast Sliding By…
Dead Drifting Crab Flies Deadly on Redfish
Signs of the times?
Articulated Bunnies – Redfish Love’em
Keeper Redfish on Fly
First one to hand and ate well even before the sun came out to warm us.
Getting Super Skinny
Deep fast water with large rocks holds quality trout
River-side lunches with PRG are something to be desired.
Owner Travis Smith (right) looks upstream at rising trout while Dirk and I enjoy excellent food and wine.
Young of year brown trout couldn’t resist a streamer swung through the deep holes with 300gr sink tip fly lines
Dedicated streamer fisherman are rewarded with larger than average trout when fishing with Patagonia River Guides
Super Skinny Water Skiff
Your Guide will spot the fish for you and can call out each shot
Brown Trout Love
This tree was our wind block and shade from the harsh sun and wind…
PRG Guide spotting giant brown and rainbow trout on the high river banks of the Rio Teka
This river is one of many which connect several all natural lakes and supports numerous populations of brown and rainbow trout.
But here, if you don’t grow big and do so fast, you will fall prey to the GIANT brown trout that live in these deep crystal clear waters.
Its inventor developed this fly in Idaho, but it works around the world and is perfect choice on a cloudy day in Argentina
NOT THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY BOATSIDE
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Port Aransas Planning & Zoning Commissioners hearing from Port of Corpus Christi member Al Jones
This fat Brown Trout fell for a streamer
Rainbow trout eating flies from under the boat
The Rio Grande in the Andes Mtns in Argentina is appropriately named for the size of the river but also well named because epic sized brown and rainbow trout live here.
2013 Thanksgiving Sheepshead on fly
South Bay Lakes & sloughs with matted floating widgeon grass where redfish were prowling.
Warning Sign
Metaphorically & Literally
Charlie’s Pasture already takes a beating from big commercial ships. This is a sinkhole that has formed behind the bulkhead.
Packed outside and inside
City Hall meets re: Harbor Island
Come fly fish with Kenjo Fly Charters for 100% bow time!
Fly Fishing Redfish
Healthy Redfish on the Fly
South Jetty newspaper article
Lighthouse Lake #5
TPWD Lighthouse Lakes Paddling Trail Webpage
Here’s looking at you kid
This little silver king graced us with its presence and allowed us this quick opportunity for a photo.
Lest we not forget, seagrasses are protected. This sign is posted at the Southwest entrance to Brown and Root Flats
A scrappy young of year redfish comes to hand near the Lydia Ann Lighthouse with author Phil Shook.
Dinner anyone?
Multiple rainbows appeared over Port Aransas this day. In this shot you can see two at the same time.
Tanker breaching Inlet to Port Aransas
Tanker breaching Inlet to Port Aransas
South Texas Saltwater Fishing Calendar
Monthly Species Chart
Beulah Fly Rods & Hatch Finatic Reels make the perfect combo
Giant Jack Crevalle on the Fly
Estimated at 50inches of Pure Rock Fury
Calm Seas in the Gulf of Mexico
Gulls and Terns worked steadily for easy pickins of glass minnows and bay anchovies
Silver King on fly at night
13wt getting bendo on an est. 60-lb tarpon.
40-lb tarpon arent long but they are thick even in the tail
Sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico
Fly Fishing Nearshore spanish mackerel Gulf of Mexico
Stuck to a nice sized cow nose ray
Comb Grouper caught while fly fishing the Texas Gulf Coast
third Coast Buffet: Pelicans and Terns enjoy a breakfast feast of glass minnows, a.k.a. bay anchovies
bait ballz!
Keeper speckled trout on the fly at Port Aransas Flats
Port Aransas Flats at Sunrise
Jack Crevalle Blitzing nearshore Texas Gulf Coast
Feisty jack crevalle on fly
Texas Gulf Red Snapper
Hungry Hungry Jack
BAIT BALL MASSACRE
Fly caught 32″ Tarpon successfully released.
41 inches on this 12wt fly rod! The Hatch Reel stopped this fish within 121 feet.
12 wt getting BENT
Now that’s a King Mackerel!
The BIG one got away
Big Bluefish for being this far South in the Gulf of Mexico
Shadowcast Flats Boat
Blacktip on conventional gear… going for them on fly rod next
DONKEY!!!
Fly Tying Step 6 – add 3 sili legs to underside of hook shank
Texas Poppin Shrimp Fly
Fly Tying Step 1 – Thread Base
Fly Tying Step 7 – dub behind, between and in front of legs
Fly Tying Step 8 – palmer hackle forward, behind, between and in front of legs
Fly Tying Step 9 – add foam, tie in front
Fly Tying Step 2 – Brown Super Hair
Fly Tying Step 3 – Fold back super hair
Fly Tying Step 4 – add golden brown dubbing
Early morning delights
Fly Tying Step 5 – add hackle tie in at tip
Fly Tying Step 11 – add 3 wraps of copper wire
Fly Tying Step 10 – tie down foam in back
Native Duo
There! 9 O’Clock! Cast! Cast! Cast!
4 hour fever
And the Release!
Sea Habit tied by Capt Kenjo
Persistence pays off with a large jack crevalle
Starboard Side View looking stern to bow
Nose to Tail
Only The Essentials
Capt Ken at the helm
On Point
Got color!
Colorful Critter
heavily weighted flies turn tricks
badaboom!
On Guard!
what the h3!!?
Strong 28-inch red drum in skinny water
Dark and Stormy – Dreaming of Rum
Giving chase!
39″ Long X 21″ Girth = 19.6lbs est.
New 2013 Ankona Flats Boat
If it had wings it would FLY!
3 on the right, 4 on the left. That makes this red fish a 7 spotter
Strike a pose
Bayside Pompano on Fly
Crunch N Munch – Sheephead on Fly
Hareline Dubbing Baitfish Emulator makes a great mullet imitator
Fly Fishing Tarpon into the night in the South Texas Coastal Bend
City of Granite – South Texas Jetty
Early Morning Colors
Estimated at 50 inches of Pure Rock Fury
Howdy!
Heading to Fly Fishing Heaven
Speed Demons like this make smoking hot drags!
Redfish habitat
Mangrove cays such as these are excellent fish attractors
Hooked up!
Nice Gag Grouper from the rocks at Port Aransas
Fly Fishing juvie tarpon in South Texas
Northwest view of Port Aransas Inlet
Let there be REDFISH!
Better have tied perfect knots and used heavy bite tippets~
Early morning sunrise flyfishing in the South Texas Coastal Bend
feisty critters although 5wts are more size appropriate
Popular redfish hang-out
Jumping Tarpon
How to really Rock Jersey
Jamaica Bay Demo
early season striped bass j-bay
Salmonella FREE!!!
33-Foot Contender
Bent on casting!
Mantis Mud
The identity of this bonefish has been blurred to protect the innocent