Posted: 01 June 2010 at 3:15pm | IP Logged

Fishing Report 6-1-10
Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend. My heart, gratitude, and prayers for their families, go out to those who have served in our military and have paid the ultimate price for our country. Without their sacrifice, our country would not be where, or who, it is today.

The winds have laid down here in Rockport for the most part over the last two weeks. The fishing, or lets say the catching, has been fantastic for me and my clients. I have been very pleased with my charters, be it trout fishing or red fishing.

There have been some nice trout coming to the docks on live croaker. Boat fishing and wading has been very good, but the wade fishing has taken top honors with me. Aransas Bay & Corpus Bay seem to be holding the most fish right now and all the normal places, or "names" seem to be holding trout. Sand and grass have been my target structure with an incoming tide. Wind direction and velocity has dictated where I've been fishing. With the light winds  we've been experiencing I've had many places to choose from to say the least.

The reds have been in the normal places I tend to find them in this time of year, but the areas with shell seem to be holding the larger numbers however. Live croaker are working on them also, but cut mullet has been my preferred bait. Limits of slot sized fish, with maybe an over-sized mixed in, have been very easy most days when I've concentrated on the reds.

On another note, I've been asked by a lot of people if the BP oil disaster in Louisiana has been effecting my fishing waters. The answer is no. We all need to pray this leak is stopped very soon though. Our neighboring states are being affected by it, and we all are going to suffer in many different ways if the leak is not stopped soon.

Until next time,
Capt. Brent Hopkins