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Backwater Adventures
On the Rocks
By Joey Farah Farah’s Fishing Adventures After coming back from the west coast and the Pacific Ocean, home is a good place. The heat is another thing to get acclimated too. Within the last few weeks, low tide and high winds have pulled out most of the shrimp in the areas back bays. The move towards bait fish in the local game fish population was
give up their location. This week I’ve been following trout movements from the extreme shallows where slicks are popping up catching fish and following the action and oil spots out to the deeper drop offs as the morning sun heats things up. After a late morning lull a second bite usually occurs as the mid-day winds start to blow. At that time I’m probing the deeper and cooler water. Some of these places are on the KING RANCH SHORELINE, and the TIDEGAUGE BAR. Piggy perch have been best in the Lagoon and live croaker in Baffin. The sight casting has been off the hook! This is the absolute best time to book a sight casting trip and really learn a new art of fishing. The beach is still muddy along the first three bars and the green water is lurking out there close at hand. When it comes on in the beach fishing will turn on again with great Spanish mackerel, trout, and whiting action. DONT LET THE SUMMER PASS WITHOUT TAKING YOUR FAMILY OUT ON A FULL DAY ADVENTURE ON THE WATER LEARNING AND BUILDING A LIFETIME OF FISHING MEMORIES. Follow all our hookups on Facebook at Joey FARAHS backwater fishing. Y’all get wet!
Another AWSOME ADVENTURE with this beautiful young lady, and her first redfish. We caught it on live piggy perch in Packery Channel evident the first morning back on the water. Trout slicks are everywhere at daybreak and during the end of game fish’s digestion periods. A diet of bait fish leaves oils in the poop of fish, The trout bite has been and as they move at first light now that the from their beds summer heat is stuck on and start to hunt these oil spots high.
Don’t let summer slip away! Get you family and friends out for a summer fishing adventure before school starts up!
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By Jay Gardner We blasted through the Packery jetties out into 2’ gentle rollers with a light east breeze. Anticipations were high as we were headed out for the first time this season in the Donzi. It was Jeff’s birthday, and we obliged him with his birthday wish to go fishing. It started a bit lumpy, but then smoothed out at we eased out towards the blue. Shrimpers dotted the horizon, and thoughts of ling were on everyone’s mind. The water turned a nice green almost immediately, and then about two
about 20 mahi, as they followed Bizzy’s jig right up to the boat. We were unprepared (aren’t we always!) and “deck-anarchy” ensued. That’s where everyone suddenly goes from neutral to 5th gear, scrambling to grab a rod and get a jig out of the tackle box in the console, and run and find some pliers and get it tied on. When there’s only XX square feet of deck, and XX number of people, it gets rowdy pretty quick. Carsen struck first blood, and she had a mahi going ballistic right next to the boat, which made everyone scramble more. The deal with mahi is, that once one is hooked, you should keep it in the water next to the boat as the rest of them will stick around. Pull it out of the water, and the rest leave. The trick is to get another one hooked next to the boat, then pull the first one out. Which I promptly did, and passed it off. The blitz lasted for a few minutes, and then the school left us. That’s when disaster struck.
Zep was on the helm, and made some comment that the boat was now entered in a Bizzy shows off his emergency rig job NASCAR race. HUH? Zep said we weren’t going anywhere except miles out we hit the first stage of blue water. “left”. Not good. A quick look in the bilge There isn’t a shred of sargassum to be seen revealed that the hydraulic steering reservoir anywhere. We started picking our way through was bone dry. Ooops! Suddenly our day the shrimp boats, but no one was home except switched gears to getting home, and we had Flipper (dolphins). At the second shrimp boat, just got to the fishing grounds. We tried rigging we got into a school of spinner dolphins, which the motors a few different ways to get them I thought was very interesting. I have not straight, but you don’t realize that when you seen spinners that close to shore before, and set the steering for a return trip, “straight” is frankly didn’t know they would come in that like the Apollo 13 astronauts hitting a 0.5 close (we’ve only seen them way offshore). In degree window upon re-entry into the earths’ any event they gave us a nice show and were atmosphere. We looked around, and barely all around the boat. Unfortunately, with the had any tools or equipment to deal with it, but dolphins around, all the fish we like to catch eventually got the anchor chain out and chained had bugged out. the motors (with great difficulty) as straight as So we continued our easterly course, and at we could get them. Then Bizzy tweaked the about 15 miles out, we hit a very light, weak steering linkage between the two and off we rip. While it didn’t have any sargassum or went. He learned that he could “steer” the floatsam on it, the water went to blue-blue. boat with the trim tabs, and quickly learned to It was gorgeous! So take heart everyone, the become proficient, as we had to pick our way pretty water is close! But, we continued on to through the mine field of shrimpers. We blasted see if we could find a rip that had appeared on back through the jetties without any steering, ripcharts at about the 25 mile mark. The waves and limped the Donzi back to the dock. GO had spaced out and we found ourselves in some TEAM! beautiful water that indeed had a predicted 6 So, the short of it is, be prepared. Take tools in second period. A long period allows time for the event something happens. We were wanting the boat to go up and down waves, instead of a roll of duct tape and a couple of 2x4’s, as we them crashing into the hull in quick succession. could have turned those outboards into tiller This makes the ride so much smoother. steering. LOL. Just kidding. Hope y’all had a We pulled up to the spot, and there they were! great weekend, drop me a line at tarponchaser@ We immediately were covered up by a school of mail.com and I’ll see you On the Rocks!
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