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EDITORIAL
The ICAST Show
and
Another
TSF mag Contest
Every year in mid-July the American Sportfishing
Association puts on the mother of all fishing trade
shows. The name ICAST is actually an acronym; the full name of the event is
International Conference of Allied Sportfishing Trades. Virtually every major
tackle manufacturing concern in the world is represented. The purpose of ICAST
is to announce the new products that will be introduced in the coming year.
The creator works
in mysterious ways,
sometimes in violent
whirling winds we mortals can’t first appreciate.
Hurricane Dolly was indeed a part of the master
plan, and the effects from her, despite the
obvious damage and disruption, were in reality…
not all bad.
On summer mornings
when I was a kid, my
grandfather took me fishing
at the Texas City Dike. We’d pull frozen shrimp
out of paper boxes and skewer them on treble
hooks dangling from wire leaders.
Sometimes trout make no sense
at all.
We started our first wade while the sun was still shining on the other side
of the world and we were working up shallow. I could hear the curses of
my friends, echoed by my own as we stumbled over some of the infamous
Baffi n rocks and even more grumbling and whining when we hung up on
them.
Y'all already know
about Hurricane
Dolly so I will only
address the effects on PINS.
There was a heavy impact of sargassum and
small debris from Corpus Christi to the 30-mile
beach of PINS while south of the 30 there was
no sargassum and the beach was swept clean
and flat.
Read Full StoryBilly
Sandifer
I’m sure that for a large portion
of TSF readers one thing that really
gets their blood pumping is watching a fish eat their lure. In my
opinion, this is one of the greatest thrills fishing can deliver.
There are several ways this can be accomplished and the leader of
the pack is the topwater plug.
I can still remember
the day that I
learned what that
little lure could do. I was fishing with my
good friend David Sams and, to say the
least, things were a little slow.
You may have noticed, the boats
Texas inshore anglers are running these days have
begun to take on a new look. It wasn’t too long ago that welded aluminum
and flat-bottomed wood and fiberglass skiffs were considered the hot setup and
outnumbered other styles by a considerable margin.
Dickie
has
35
years experience guiding on Sabine
and Calcasieu Lakes out of Orange,TX. Read Article
Galveston
Mickey Eastman
Mickey fishes out of the
Galveston area bays and is the
founder of
Gulf Coast Troutmasters. Read Article
Matagorda
Bill
Pustejovsky
Bill is a guide from the
Matagorda Bays He fishes year 'round
for
trophy trout
and redfish. Read Article
POC/Seadrift
Shellie Gray
Shellie Gray fishes year
'round for trout and redfish with
artificial lures in the Port
O'Connor/ Seadrift area Read Article
POC/Seadrift
Gary Gray
Captain Gary fishes year
'round for trout and redfish with
artificial lures in the Port
O'Connor/ Seadrift area. Read Article
Laguna/Baffin
Cliff Webb
Cliff Web is
a fulltime fishing guide in the
Upper Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay
specializing in trophy specs. Read Article
Port Mansfield
Capt. Tricia
Capt. Tricia operates
out of Port Mansfield,
specializing in both wade
and drift
fishing with
artificial lures. Read Article
Port Isabel
Ernest Cisneros
Ernest
fishes the
Lower Laguna Madre to Port
Isabel. Ernest specializes in
wading and poled skiff
for snook, trout
and redfish. Read Article
