DocEsox's Fishing Addiction: April 2008

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Corpus Christi 02/07 with Alex

Corpus Christi 2/07 with Alex

Here's brief slideshow of the first fishing trip of the year in Feb. '07. Couldn't quite wait for the snow to clear home here in Alaska so in we headed down to Corpus Christi, TX to do a few days of fishing for speckled trout. I took my stepson, Alex, with me and had a great 3 days of fishing with Jay Watkins, a guide I met many years ago while there stationed in San Antonio with the USAF. Jay promised me a trophy speck......over 26 inches....if I fished at least 3 days with him. The first few days were off- and- on for specks but we hammered the redfish....what a hoot they are. Finally on the last day we got into specks pretty good. I must have caught near 50, when, yes, at the last ditch stop I finally caught my toad....a 28 inch hen....snapped a few pics and put her back in the water to fight again.....great time with Alex.

Brian

My Genetic Disposition to Fishing Dependency

Even at the young age of 52 I can still remember clear as a bell the first stocked rainbow trout I caught by myself....it was at Clear Creek on the Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock Reservation just north of Pocatello, ID, at the age of 4. What recently shattered my fond, tender memories was my father sending me a digitized photo of that trip.....somehow, through my eyes at the time I remember that fish being WAY bigger than the 7 inches it appears to be....of course, I was much shorter then also. Since that experience I have spent uncounted hours with my father and my uncle on many rivers learning the nuances of fishing trout. My father frequently told me in my teens I would burn out on fishing before I was 20.....wrong, wrong, wrong. Not only has the addiction persisted but then I began wrapping fishing rods 25 years ago.....there's nothing to cure me now.

My wife told me to start this blog as my passion for building rods, fishing and looking at fish (they are all gorgeous) has become worse with age.....and it keeps me out of her hair.

About 3 years ago I got a serious bug about learning the taxonomy of salmonids, especially in North America and decided I must catch all subspecies before leaving this mortal coil. But I have a passion for catching all fish anywhere and currently my lifetime number of species is at 183.....yes, you are right it is a sickness.

For my first entry I will just hook up a slide show of some of 2007's good fishing times.

Hope you enjoy..............Brian

DocEsox's Fishing Addiction

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Corpus Christi 02/07 with Alex

Corpus Christi 2/07 with Alex

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Montana Fishing 2007

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