Yesterday was a good day on the water with even a fish story to tell. Click on the photos to enlarge them to better see what I'm talking about.

First we started out at 7:30 and fished around the popular areas of Copano. After a couple of hours we had one under sized trout and a barely keeper drum. We came back to the condos to regroup. Ralph(101) had scheduled a guide for Sunday, but the guide canceled because he said the fishing would not be worth the trip.
This gave us pause but, we went back out at noon and went straight across to Paul's Mott. When we got there the top picture shows five boats already positioned and each had one or more fish on. The reds were all over the place. We had only a few small shrimp and no leader materials and our DOAs.
We used a small hook and shrimp to catch perch to use for cut bait. Right away we had a nice red in the box. We had beached my boat on the north shoreline and stayed in one place while the other boats, as in the second picture, circled around us with bent poles. We tried a spoon and caught one red and one drum. We then caught another perch and cut it into pieces and had several hookups only to have the our lines cut on the shell. Finally, we had only one perch head left and tried that. A large red took it and fought hard. The red disappeared under the boat and we could not get the line or fish out. We finally pushed, with great effort, the boat free from the shore and boated the dead red. I had never done that. The red had wedged itself under the keel of the beached boat and been squeezed to death. Altogether we ended with three reds and six drum, but with some cut mullet and leader line we could have easily got our limits.