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Winter Low Tides

Winter doesn’t really settle into the Texas Coast until around February. But Tom from Colorado knows all too well that he can come down to Port Aransas for some great fly fishing action during the winter low tides.

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Tom caught his second personal best record breaking Texas redfish measuring 30 3/8″ on the fly with KenjoFly Fishing

On this particular day of winter low tides, the fishing was great!

We had multiple schools of cruising redfish to chase for hours. They were swimming in formation, evenly spaced like fighter jets. Tom connected with several quality redfish in the marsh. Managing to set his own personal best redfish record on the fly twice was icing on the cake.

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Tom admires his first personal best redfish for the day with Capt Kenjo measuring 29 inches.

Kissing a fish makes a lot of people feel disgusted, but every true fly fishing angler with good sportsmanship knows that kissing the fish before letting it go brings good karma!

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Tom kisses another Texas Redfish before releasing it back into Aransas bay

Some also say that a fish with a big tail shows great potential in their DNA, somewhat like a child growing big feet early on in life… Do you ever wonder though where the blue sheen in a redfish’s tail comes from?

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The blue in the tail of a redfish comes from the blue green algae that the food of the redfish eat. Crabs, shrimp and mullet all eat blue green algae and it is passed onto the redfish and is revealed in their tail fins.
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Tom racked up the numbers sight fishing Texas redfish on the fly.

Additionally, with the winter low tides, April and May are already showing great promise with loads of baitfish moving into the bays and marsh areas to feed, and the redfish, trout and drum and feeding on them heartily as we breathe. Get on your calendars folks and book a fly fishing trip in Port Aransas with Capt Kenjo! The jack crevelle are right around the corner and hungry to put on the feed bags for ya’ll!!!

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A True Texas Grand Slam

Its baseball season! Both my wonderful children are in Little League too! Grand Slams are rare in Little League baseball and the grand slam consists of 4 runs batted in. And while baseball is my favorite sport of all, fly fishing by sight is my absolute favorite method of fishing! To catch a True Texas Grand Slam (4 species, not 3) fly fishing saltwater, it is a very cherished moment!

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Guest Angler Evan from Colorado caught 4 species today completing his True Saltwater Grand Slam!

Additionally, Evan came down from the mountains of Colorado recently for his first fly fishing trip in the saltwater. Little did we know that the super duper low tides would set us up. For him to catch a true Texas grand slam. Four species are needed (in my book) before an angler can claim he caught a grand slam. And Evan did just that! We caught top slot redfish, several black drum, couple speckled trout and a bonus flounder (while casting to redfish).

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Guest Angler Evan from Colorado caught 4 species today completing his Grand Slam!

His previous experience with streamer fishing in the mountains had his cast working darn great for him! A True Texas Grand Slam

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Guest Angler Evan from Colorado caught his 4th species today completing his Grand Slam!

However, congratulations to Evan with his catches that day! And Hooray for completing a True Texas Grand Slam on your first saltwater trip! Let’s get back out there again soon! I’d like to see if we can get into some jack crevelle and other species! This is a great year to rack up the list even more! Kudos, my friend!

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Guest Angler Evan from Colorado caught 4 species today completing his Texas Saltwater Grand Slam!

Finally, dates in April & May are available! The redfish are schooling up in tailing pods keeping every angler super satisfied fly fishing Port Aransas Texas. Additionally, each day we will be spending a little time searching for jack crevelle in the bay.

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Sight Casting Stripers

 

Illegally Parked Striper

Good Morning America!

It was such a pleasure to host Alex and Peter of Patagonia River Guides for a little saltwater flyfishing R&R (rest and relaxation) while they were visiting NY!

Hands-down these guys are some of the best fly fisherman to which I have had the privilege of working with!

There are days when all factors in the equation are present, +fish crazy anglers +loads of bait-fish swimming freely, and +fish = chances for some serious action. But sometimes at the end of the day you know the fish showed up and they won this time. The best way to deal with knowing that the striped bass ran game on you was that you know you had just as much fun as the fish did! At least everyone showed up for the game!

On some rare occasions, a day like this ends up standing out most among any other day spent on the water fly fishing… Something phenomenal happened on that strange day and as lifelong fishermen, we know that we were the lucky ones to have been in the right place at the right time to witness such an event.

No matter how many times I get the chance to observe fish feeding up close and personal, it is still an excellent experience when you spot a striper resting at peace, motionless like a piece of drift wood in the middle of a giant school of bunker hovering over deep water… You think to yourself, how crazy are those bunker to be swimming circles around that giant bass!?!?!?

And then it happens…

Whoooosh! The water ignites into a burst of spray that will soak you and large speeding wakes flow in multiple directions by the lone striped bass making his move…

I cant help but imagine how a huge striper like that just mosey into a school of bunker, as if completely undetected… It is just an amazing thing to watch… Until next time…

¡adiós! mis amigos