My Highlights from South Texas

Though I haven't left this area yet, I eagerly look forward to mid March when I will and I don't expect there will be much change in the fishing and the top highlight will probably never be replaced -- making love to Jennifer Anniston (in my dreams, of course but all the more real or as real as it can get).  The second most memorable thing will be the Red Snapper charter trip to the gas rigs in the Gulf where we caught (and were allowed to keep) our limit of those tasty fish.  The third most memorable thing will be the huge Red Drum (Redfish) that I hooked (and nearly landed) while fishing the south jetty in Port A -- a really beautiful fish that had to be over 36 or 37 inches in length and nearly 12 inches in height as I estimated when I pulled him (with the help of a timely wave) onto the large flat boulder at the water's edge (too bad that hook straightened out when I tried to yank him to me on the less slippery boulder I stood on).  Saved me from having to realease him anyway.

More memorable or equally as memorable as the Redfish will be the nice Black Drum that I landed on my birthday with the broken reel which I had to turn by the spool by hand.  A tasty 21 inch fish.  I'm still hoping to catch another nice keeper Sheepshead to match that 18-incher I caught before Christmas and maybe that will happen sometime before I leave here (and never look to coming back again for a winter).