Fighting a large red can draw a crowd. I watched the last 15 minutes as they landed a 30 inch red. In the bottom picture you can see the fellow second from left preparing to release the red. They caught another oversized red a few minutes before this one using live mullet.
I forgot to mention last week that I managed to catch my first keeper trout on a gold spoon. It was about dusk in the mitigation site.

Indigenous plants can show great tenacity when trying to find growing space. This Lantana found a way to sunlight from under the AC stand. The weekend rains, 3 inches, will give it a boost to expand its area.
My post about the flooding drew a one day record and 57 different individuals logged on to take a look last week.

 My son, Ryan, tried the water of Port O'Conner last weekend and sent this report.

Jack was 45".  Was a heavy load!

All these fish (reds and shark) were caught on 7" Shad we caught in a cast net.

I caught this jack the evening we arrived, while the shad were alive.  We hooked the shad through the skull using circle hooks on steel leaders (about 3ft long).

We anchored in a 30ft deep pass/bayou.  Within 1-2 mins of releasing line, we had this fish on. Fought him for around 15-20mins (same time as the shark the following morning).
We saved the rest of the shad (on ice) and used them at the jetties the next morning to catch the Reds and the Shark.

The sun came out this afternoon and the water receded a bit, but it's supposed to come back up overnight.

Notice the concrete jetties are under water.

The low pressure system in the gulf has given us some pretty high tides. It was higher this morning and is still going down, but predicted to come back strong this evening. Not much rain yet, but the forecast is for 7 inches over the next two days.

 The flounder have really moved into our mitigation site. It may be related to the annual spawn of croaker in this area. There are probably millions of tiny croaker in the site. Here Jackson(guest in 604) shows us the start of his day. By noon he had four and maybe another after that. Below is the lure he uses. He drags it in a at an imperceptibly slow pace. It does take patience, more than I have.

 Lina has had problems finding folks to trim our palm trees this year. She purchased the saw above at Probuild and Jerry has finished over half the trees. They look much better cleaned up.

I think the story here is that if Pat(602) keeps catching these oversized drum, he needs to invest in a larger net. He caught this one about 10 days ago. I forgot to mention that while I had that large stingray on the line so long and we had lights from cars and flashlights trying to see what it was, a drum like this came by within six feet of the wall in about 10 inches of water to see what was going on. He barely has enough water to swim in and didn't stay around long.
A new Marriot is going up across from the LaQuinta downtown.
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Last evening the reds were pretty easy to come by on my gold spoon. These two looked identical, except one has one spot and the other has two. This evening I thought I would do the same thing. Roger and I were standing on the roadway about 7:30 when something nailed my spoon and took off. It ran toward the crossbridge and then seemed to stop. I couldn't seem to move it again. After 45 minutes Roger got me a chair from the office. Two hours later I finally hauled up this huge stingray. It was foul hooked in the tail. It was 4 and 1/2 feet from nose to tip of tail and 22 inches across the body.

Reds have been better in the mitigation site than in the past few weeks. Joe and Bev(guests in 607) caught two keepers on Thursday evening. Although, I didn't see anything caught this weekend. We were fairly busy and Mingo noted that for the first time this year every single vehicle was properly tagged with a permit.