Well, as most of ya’ll know, there were a couple of tournaments going on down in Matagorda. There was Lingerie on the Bay (LOTB) and the annual Matagorda Bluewater Challenge. David Cassady, one of the founders of Full Stringer Lodge, was the auctioneer for the Calcutta. The calcuta was $35,000. In this tournament, they had 2 huge ling, the largest weighing 74.2 pounds and 1 at 63 pounds. These ling were huge! A 19 pound snapper won first in its division and the kingfish that won its division weighed 50.02 pounds. Full Stringer Lodge had three boats in the LOTB. Captain Warmke’s boat won 4th place and the other two boats did not place.

This week’s report is the opposite of last week’s edition. Everybody is heading to East Bay. Captain Kyle Tomek was literally eating, sleeping and breathing fishing. He fished an outstanding six days, catching 10-20 trout per day. They had several over 25 inches, with the largest measuring 27 ¾ inches. They lost one well over 28 inches at the net that a lucky 7th grader caught. Kyle and his clients were wading shell. He had 2 trips that were drifters…they caught nothing. Ken Sabin did some night wading Wednesday, catching 8 trout over 25 inches. He had an awesome trip. Captain Kenny Hauff had half limits over the weekend, drifting East Bay, throwing live shrimp.

Rob Cummings had a good week, too. They caught a lot of fish on Friday while wading. They ended up with half-limits to 28 ½ inches, throwing Spook Jrs, and Bass Assasins. On Saturday, they caught 30 trout to 23 inches, drifting shell and throwing live shrimp.

Monday Capt.Mark Talasek and David Hall started off wading grassbeds down west. First stop produced one trout so they loaded up and headed to the "hump" in Port O'Conner. As a result they boxed 10 trout and hit the bouys on the way back sticking one triple tail. Tuesday they ventured over to east bay. Twenty fat trout to 23" hit the box by 8 a.m. on black Bass Assassins. Cory Flencher ventured back east Capt. Talasek on Wednesday where they iced 24 more nice specs. Black/Chartreuce Bass Assassins were the ticket for duping the trout. Thursday he took Mike Spinks and his wife Lisa drifting oysterlake with live shrimp. They caught and released scores of undersized reds and trout before calling it a day around lunch. Friday he took Nowry Smith wading. wading reefs in east bay. They iced 12 trout with a fat 29.5 inch "big girl" topping the day.


Capt.Scott Reeh had Cliff Branum, owner of Southshore Boats join him on a long needed buddy trip. They headed towards a bar near POC and stuck 17 keeper trout. Then they decided to Tripletail their way back to the launch site, Cliffs house on Caranchua Bay. They boated 1 10lb 'Tail and released 1 that was a little short. Also thrown in the mix were 2 sheepies! It was a great day on the water with a great friend!

This past Thursday Robert and Stephanie Steves boxed a limit of solid trout and two reds with Capt. Ken Marshall. Friday Robert, Bill, Jerry and David had 14 trout and one red. On Saturday Carry, Angela, and Bill headed offshore with Capt.Ken! They bounced around at spots looking for big snaps. After boxing a few decent fish to 10lbs. They hit a spot loaded with sows. They kept two to finish the limit then moved on to catch and release kingfish to 35lbs. and also picked up a couple ling. Sunday they headed into the bay and boxed 13 trout and one redfish and then they headed in for lunch!

Tight lines,

Josh Stone