trout

hello i`m larry aka fpoon this is my first post so this is only a test i`m posting up pic of trout that i was on saturday 23. my biggest one was 241/2 this is my best so far and i only been living in texas for 4 months now,i`m a fast learner

Stars and Stripes Tournament report

Team GCR hit the water at 5:30 and made a paddle the wrong way. It took us about 150 yards to tell that there was no water at the flounder hole. So i made the execuctive decision to turn around and paddle to hole #2 and beached the yak . scuba stopped about 100 yds away from me and i started the day with a pink skitterwalk. 3 blowups later i finally hooked a keeper trout and stringered him just for the fact that we may need him. 16 inches wow. a few more casts and the next blowup was a 17 inch trout and i said ok this is gunna get good. i casted a few more times and had a good blowup and it took my pink skitterwalk from me and i said crap there goes 6.95.lol. i know it was just from the line being frayed because i was using 30 lb. power pro. so i took my second rod armed with a brown lure and second cast another trout. this continued for quite some time and i had 5 trout on the stringer when i said lets move to the marsh and try for reds and flounder. we made the long paddle to the channel entrance and stopped to see if there was anything there and boom more trout. i let my yak drift up to the shore from the wind and when i tried the next cast the lure got caught in the salt grass behing me and it was a backlash from hell. i put that rod down and got the next one out and whammo another trout. thinking that there might be a red further in the marsh we made the paddle a little further and it got really shallow. there was no way i was gunna make it through so i found a gut and started casting up drift and letting my lure swim down stream . whammo another trout. then the skeeters decided it was warm enough to wake up and misery started so i got the hell out of the swamp. i made it back to the mouth of the marsh and set up for anything comming out and caught a flounder . cool its getting closer to a slam now so working on hope i sat and waited for the big red to appear. well it did not happen but i caught a few more trout and another flounder. i counted my trout and it was 10 so i let the rest of the ones i caught go. when i got home and got them off the stringer i only had 9. crap i had a limit and then some. smallest trout 16 largest 18 flounder were 14.5 and 14 7.8. great day and great fun with my team and my friends. JQ

Scubasteve: Chapter 1

2007 will be an exciting year for the Gulf Coast Rods Kayak Fishing Team. I have already fished with our fearless leader on several occassions, and there is no doubt that he has the uncanny ability to catch fish in a bath tub. I also look forward to fishing with our other team members Ted (Red Rubi) and Larry (Fpoon). I am equally excited that we will be fishing with Brown Lures at every fishing event during the year. Not much of a learning curve for me as I have consistently been using Jason's lures for several months now.

I would also like to say congratulations to the Paddlecast boys on thier recent win at the NAKA tournament. They caught some mighty nice fish, and on Brown Lures of course. I wish the best to the Reelin Chix, Beckie and my lovely wife Sierra. Both teams have had very good showings in the recent tournaments, and both will be good competition for us in '07.

Team GCR will most likely start meeting about once a month to talk about upcoming events and outtings, and well.....DRINKIN SOME BEER. I will report on some of the happenings that take place on and off the water. I look forward to picking Randalls brain about fishing Galveston Bay and will try to pass some of that along to you. Thanks again Jason, see ya'll next time.

Welcome everyone,

This is my initial post to the blog and am really just testing the functionality. Hopefully I can delete this! If not, Stay tuned for some Tail Kicking Fishing Reports coming very very soon. I also hope to make it fun! As I aquire team pictures of our competitors, I will post pics so you can see just how tough our competition really is. LOL!

My first introduction is Team PaddleCast. A great group of guys and somewhat comical when they get together.

THE LURES AND THE METHOD

Brown lures are a fundamental part of my tackle arsenal. Here are some pics of a couple of lures from the last couple of weeks. they are very durable and they are very functional.
This red and white Brown lure has been the mainstay of my last 2 weeks. I have caught over 150 trout on this color in November and the first couple days in December. I work the lure slow and just raise my rod tip after a few revolutions of my reel. As I let the rod tip down and keep reeling, I feel for the bite. It happens on the fall 90% of the time and I set the hook as soon as I feel it. the amber devil eye has been working the last few days . Its like they get used to 1 color and you need to fool them with a new. Each one of these pics of the lures have had a limit of trout or more caught on them and they are still useable. I have hung them on the wall of fame now and just tied on a new one. you be the judge.
Randall { aka JOHNNY QUEST }