May 19, 2016
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Backwater Adventures
On the Rocks
By Joey Farah
By Jay Gardner
Farah’s Fishing Adventures Greetings from the land of the mesas again! We are out here around Fort Stockton working for the City doing some site investigations. I have been crawling all over the desert looking for endangered species, but I haven’t found any yet at this point of writing. The land we’re looking at has been previously disturbed, and has cattle running on it. Looks a lot like the regular scrub that we all enjoy so much just south of Corpus. LOL! I’ll be here all week. Literally.
JOEY IV with a nice trout we caught in the afternoon on live croaker. Joey gets let free in his first bay boat this summer, brings back good memories. Just another good keeper this week on live bait, croakers are getting bigger. That means they are more plentiful at the marinas, live better, make more noise, and catch more fish. Learning to master this live bait fishing is a lot easier with a guided trip. You skip a lot of steps on the learning curve and in the end save money and fill the box. I have a bunch of half day afternoon trips in late May and June I want to fill. Afternoon bait trips are AWESOME.
One thing that I have found is a few nesting birds. We have of course avoided the nests, although most of them have been abandoned. I was starting to think twice about it, when I started noticing all the fledglings running around with mom and pop. In the case of these scaled quail, they literally are running around with mom and pop. Scaled quail are easily twice the size of our typical bobwhite, however the scaled quail babies are smaller than a bobwhite at this point in time. It’s kind of funny to see the new little guys and how fast their legs move just to keep up with the parents. However, the idea is that at least out this way, and home at the coastal bend, we have an interesting season going on. I hear from Topdog that I’m missing quite the fallout going on right now at the coast. He got yellowthroated and red eyed vireos, bay breasted warblers, magnolia warbs, and Tennessee warblers (that have been around for
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Nancy ended a wild weekend of fishing with her limit of specks with me this week. In her 70’s in a chair and can only use one arm she gigged her limit of flounder, caught a 25lb amberjack, and went bay fishing! Custom rod holder and a seat belt! I was so happy for her. Farah
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There is no Wi-fi out here next to the 7-mile mesa, and I’ve had to learn how to create a hotspot with my cell phone and connect to this laptop via the bluetooths. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Although I have no idea where they came up with tethering electronic devices as “bluetoothing”. Beats me. I’ll be home in time for the weekend barring any massive equipment failure over the next few days. Drop me a line at tarponchaser@ mail.com and I’ll see you On the Rocks after work next week. I am WAY overdue for some fishing, and I’m missing the sand, believe it or not.
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