Below is an email I receiced from Marvin Kreuter. Marvin and Rita have come to Kontiki for a month in the spring and a month in fall for many years. I thought it was interesting and he said it was OK for me to post his experience he describes in this post.
Larry, I had an opportunity to fish last weekend with Guide, Tim Redden in the Rockport area. I started using Tim's services about 18 years ago, usually during our month long stays at Kontiki. You might remember that Tim also had a weekly fishing report in the local Rockport paper. He gave up guiding about 7 years ago, moved to Houston and got affiliated with a firm that sold construction materials to home building contractors. About 3 weeks ago I got a call from Tim saying he was back Guiding in Rockport since home building had come to a screeching halt.
We were invited to spend the Easter holidays at daughter and son-in-laws’ new home they had just completed in the Beach Walk 11 subdivision on Port Aransas so a fishing trip was inevitable. Tim had an opening, so Son-in-law Randy and I met him at Cove Harbor last Saturday and boarded his new boat. I use the term 'boat' loosely for in essence it is a motorized 23-foot surfboard. No sides and you stand 5 inches above the water. The name of this boat is 'Ibis' and it is made in San Antonio. It does have seats and can accommodate 4 passengers plus guide.
We started wading using plastics with no luck, drifted over shell for a while with a few keepers and then we entered a 'lake' located inside of St. Joe's through a narrow channel with water inches deep. The reason this boat is getting popular is that it can navigate in places where airboats normally travel.
Started using live shrimp and within a few hours had placed 13 Trout, 3 Black Drum. 1 Redfish and 1 Flounder in the ice chest. Returned many Rat Reds and Hardheads to the water. Only trouble we had was a Water Moccasin, swimming in the middle of the 'lake', took a fancy to our boat and start swimming towards us. He could have easily boarded the boat for we were standing only inches above the water and it would have been an unwelcome guest but a couple of swipes with the polling pole ended the snake’s travels. Had to cut our fishing trip somewhat short for we had reservations at the Venetian Hot Plate restaurant in Port Aransas to celebrate Rita's birthday. Promised not to tell her age but she's told me of spending time in a bomb shelter during WWII.
Will arrive at Kontiki next Tuesday and hope you will find some time to be at your Condo.
Marvin
Larry, I had an opportunity to fish last weekend with Guide, Tim Redden in the Rockport area. I started using Tim's services about 18 years ago, usually during our month long stays at Kontiki. You might remember that Tim also had a weekly fishing report in the local Rockport paper. He gave up guiding about 7 years ago, moved to Houston and got affiliated with a firm that sold construction materials to home building contractors. About 3 weeks ago I got a call from Tim saying he was back Guiding in Rockport since home building had come to a screeching halt.
We were invited to spend the Easter holidays at daughter and son-in-laws’ new home they had just completed in the Beach Walk 11 subdivision on Port Aransas so a fishing trip was inevitable. Tim had an opening, so Son-in-law Randy and I met him at Cove Harbor last Saturday and boarded his new boat. I use the term 'boat' loosely for in essence it is a motorized 23-foot surfboard. No sides and you stand 5 inches above the water. The name of this boat is 'Ibis' and it is made in San Antonio. It does have seats and can accommodate 4 passengers plus guide.
We started wading using plastics with no luck, drifted over shell for a while with a few keepers and then we entered a 'lake' located inside of St. Joe's through a narrow channel with water inches deep. The reason this boat is getting popular is that it can navigate in places where airboats normally travel.
Started using live shrimp and within a few hours had placed 13 Trout, 3 Black Drum. 1 Redfish and 1 Flounder in the ice chest. Returned many Rat Reds and Hardheads to the water. Only trouble we had was a Water Moccasin, swimming in the middle of the 'lake', took a fancy to our boat and start swimming towards us. He could have easily boarded the boat for we were standing only inches above the water and it would have been an unwelcome guest but a couple of swipes with the polling pole ended the snake’s travels. Had to cut our fishing trip somewhat short for we had reservations at the Venetian Hot Plate restaurant in Port Aransas to celebrate Rita's birthday. Promised not to tell her age but she's told me of spending time in a bomb shelter during WWII.
Will arrive at Kontiki next Tuesday and hope you will find some time to be at your Condo.
Marvin
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