Archive for January, 2023

Monday Morning Blues

Watch the only Texas fly fishing report this time – border to border! We have highlights from the Lower Laguna Madre earlier this month AND carp running wild on Lake Ray Roberts Texas.

JUST A WORD

Do you want to know where the Texas Gulf Coast fly fishing scene never stops? Port Mansfield, Texas, is always on. Go soon, it is waking up!

Texas Fly Fishing Report

South Padre Island and the Lower Laguna Madre fly fishing report.

Outside The Door

A new wonder world of water outside the door. So close and so diverse. The Lower Laguna Madre awaits.

Monday Brings a Hint of Fall

Fall brings more changes than I can imagine. Getting ready for salt is priority one – the big move a week away. Green trout on Ray Roberts!

Ready For Blastoff!

Caught up in the whirlwind – DFW to South Padre Island to Houston and back again today.

Saturday Reruns

The Saturday Reruns are falling fast now. This one clocks in at 14-thousand views, and will actually get a follow-up this spring to let watchers know how all the tuning on the skiff turned out! Running Your Shallow Saltwater Skiff These are some of the many ways to set up your skiff for running Texas […]

Give a Little Get A Little

Send and receive the latest information – on the Monday Morning Sidewalk, Texas’ original Monday fly fishing social gathering of ill repute.

Port O’Connor Texas Fly Fishing

This report is fresh off the Texas Gulf Coast’s Port O’Connor, and contains the latest on conditions last week in that fishing eco-system. It’s not pretty.

TPWD Crab Trap Cleanup

TPWD NEWS RELEASE: AUSTIN —Each February for 18 years, countless volunteers spend 10 days on the water along the Texas coastline searching the bays for abandoned crab traps left to foul shrimpers’ nets, snag anglers’ lines, “ghost fish,” and create unsightly views. To date, they’ve hauled off more than 36,000 of these derelict traps. Between […]

Monday Morning Blues

Watch the only Texas fly fishing report this time – border to border! We have highlights from the Lower Laguna Madre earlier this month AND carp running wild on Lake Ray Roberts Texas.

Weekend Warriors

Carp are abundant this year on Lake Ray Roberts, Texas. It almost seems like a bad thing it’s so good.

Saturday Morning Reruns

Classic original carp video from the Ray Roberts flats in the aughts.

TEXAS FLY FISHING REPORT

Bass on the fly. Carp on the fly and how to catch them on Lake Ray Roberts Texas.

Monday Morning Sidewalk

How about that last week? It was a real vacation brought on by two sick days of … well, I still don’t know what it was. Could it be allergies? In our changing planet, maybe I am now allergic to something that was never around before? I am still a statue of snot today, and […]

Monday Morning Sidewalk

“And it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gears … we’ve got a thing that’s called radar love …” – Golden Earring 1973 – Good Monday morning sidewalkers! Is it hot enough for you? I guess we old fogies talk about the weather first, then go through our “Organ Recital,” where we recite what’s working […]

Monday Morning Rundown

Sweet faced carp on fly.

Monday Evening Sidewalk

“Ohh, Ohhh that smell. Can’t you smell that smell …?” – Lynyrd Skynyrd  Now the smell of new life surrounds us. Spring floods and spring green … then more floods … Good Monday Morning evening and welcome once again for the umpteenth time TO THE Monday Morning Sidewalk. I know this is too late to […]

Holy Carp! – on the Tuesday Tournament Roundup

Holy Carp! Houston, Texas, fly fishing tournament stop information.

esCARPment Carp Fly Fishing Results

esCARPment Central Texas Carp Tournament Phenomenal Success Here are the results for the esCARPment tournament for 2018 (not 2017)! FROM McLean Worsham: “Hi Shannon, Glad to share with you. This year, drought conditions and high winds made for challenging conditions. Despite that multiple anglers had phenomenal days with 732.5 total inches of carp caught by […]