All righty; the Rockport trip is back in the mix! Won't be a whole week, but at least we will get in a couple of days' fishing. If anybody wants to join us you're more than welcome. Unless the wind kicks up we will be good to go with UL fly rods. If the winds kick up, or if the specks go deep (the gut is 8'-11' deep) we will be forced to use heavy flies to get down deep in that current. It'll call for a 7 or 8 weight, or a UL levelwind (thank you Chris Stewart) to throw those heavy flies. Or a UL spinning rig.......
We will arrive on Sunday afternoon, January 28th, and leave the following Wednesday (the 31st) before noon. Since Goose Island State Park is closed, except for the boat ramp, we will be staying in one of the pink palaces at Seagun cabins (SH35 @ the Copano Causeway), five minutes from the ramp. The RV gets a break this trip
. We had originally planned a week-long trip the week before Christmas, with a bunch of us from all over the state. Harvey wrecked that plan. This is a last-minute attempt to use my new UL levelwind while it's still new, to catch some of Rockport's pretty specks.
Hopefully, the only rods I use will be the half weight and the UL levelwind, but I will take the two weight and the eight weight just in case. And probably the 5,6, & 7 weights too.... If you join us you will need a kayak (or small boat; we will be staking out on the edge of a deep gut in 18"-2' of water to fish); it's about a thousand yard paddle from the ramp to the magic spot. I checked the NOAA site today; the water temps there have gone from 40-41 F right after the freeze to the low 50s as of today. If the water temps are in the 50s the specks will eat. We will feed them......