Matagorda!

This is a pic of Jeremy from Austin, Texas sent to us by Captain Walt Wendtland. Jeremy was using the OUTCAST cork with a black and chartreuse soft plastic to catch this redfish in West Bay on May 22, 2009.

Captain Walt Wendtland

://www.gofishmatagorda.com/

Family time!

We had had a famliy weekend fishing, golfing and lots of food. Left to right in the pic is Rick Braynt(sisters FIL), Tom Forshee(The Old Man), & The Cappy. Tom and Rick kept me busy with the net and keeping bait on the hooks. 17 keepers with your corks. Cant tell you what a great product you have. The fish were tight on a cove shore line and we had to stay in the boat. Without the Outcast I dont think we could have caught these fish without spooking them with the boat. We put the power pole down down and started bombing shrimp in tight on the bank.

Captain Matt Forshee

Team Notorious is getting warmed up!

Well, although I have had 4 kayak tournaments so far this year and Thomas has had a couple of boat tournaments, we haven’t had much time to fish locally in our home waters. Thomas has been working for something like 19 days straight on a turn-around but we got a chance to hit the water together yesterday evening for a couple of hours. I’d had the boat out all morning so all my gear was still on the boat. I threw Thomas’ stuff on board before he got home from work and we hit the water shortly after he arrived.
We were all set to do some evening wade fishing but on our way across the bay we came across a HUGE flock of birds working. Pelicans and gulls together covering probably a 200 yard stretch. Irresistible! We had to stop and see what was under them. It was howling wind and pretty darn rough out there in the middle of west Galveston bay. It was so rough that there was no way to keep the boat from smacking around and making noise. We were happy to have the Midcoast corks so that we could cast those long bombs and get it a long way out there! Thomas likes the Evolution and I had on a Mojo although I ended up switching to an Inticer for better noise. The water was high but going out. Water temps right now are 78 to 80 degrees. We were fishing in 4 to 6 feet of water and there was so much bait that you could see it on the depth finder as a big band halfway down. From what we could see, it was a good mixture of glass minnows, shrimp and shad all together. Most cool!
Well after a quick “test drift” through the birds, we abandoned the wade fishing plan and stuck with drifting. It was looking to be pretty productive. We both had shrimp imitators under our corks and that’s all that they wanted. I tried a few other lures but kept going back to the DOA shrimp. We were picking up a few dink trout, many more larger trout, even a couple of surprise redfish and of course gafftops. The birds and bait pretty much stuck to the same area the whole time we were out there although they divided up in to several smaller flocks rather than the original huge one. We were the only boat.
We made 6 or 7 drifts in 2 ½ hours and ended up with 12 decent trout, the biggest going to about 5 lbs. We also had two slot reds with the biggest being a 7 pounder. We came in with just barely enough light to navigate the railroad bridge by our house. The pictures were taken after dark and all the “people” shots didn’t turn out.
Thomas will be guiding starting this fall and he is dying to have days like this for his customers!! Our wedding anniversary is today (the 16th) and we are planning to hit it again this evening. I cant think of a better anniversary date.

Thomas & Kaylin Barlow aka Team Notorious

Pretty in Pink!

This is Captain Doug Stanford and his wife Sherrel with a nice red that she caught using a pink Inticer (tied to a pink rod) with Gulp!

Captain Doug Stanford

://www.piratesofthebay.com/

First on the Outcast!

Lane,

Here is my first fish on the Outcast!! A 7 pound Black Drum on a shrimp.

Robert Hale

Rockport Spring Fling 2009

Lane,
It was fun fishing with you guys at Spring Fling. We used your products the next day in St. Charles Bay and nailed 6 specks after bottom fishing for black drum.

Ron Strait

Team Notorious

Well it may be windy but the fishing is sure turning on! Thomas got off work a little early so he called me to see what I was doing and did I want to go fishing for a couple hours.....silly question! We dropped the Mosca in the water (she hasnt been in her home waters in about a month what with all the tournaments down south and work schedules) and we headed out into west for some popping cork action in the waves. Birds, birds, birds. Birds working everywhere. We hit a few flocks with Mojo and Evolution corks. I had a DOA shrimp on, Thomas a gulp. We picked up a couple of decent trout and then made some drifts into shorelines. It was funny, for awhile we were one for one matched fish. I caught a trout, Thomas caught a trout. He caught a red, I caught a red. Then it was gafftops for each. Ultimately however, he landed the biggest red and me the biggest trout. (I have no idea about the gafftop.) They didnt care if it was the DOA shrimp or the gulp shrimp.Water looked like crud, darker crud in some spots and lighter in others. Very windy and apparently an outgoing tide.We kept two decent trout for trout dip and everything else went back in to swim. Not bad for a couple hours. It was nice to feel something pulling the end of the line.

Thomas & Kaylin Barlow

"Team Notorious"

Ricko the Convincer!

Dear Cork Guys,

I convinced another angler to get rid of his popping corks and go with the Inticer. We caught and released about 30 trout, as well as a few blue fish and spanish, all caught under the Inticer. After I boated the first 2, Clay switched to one of my rigs and started catching!
He was heading to Adams bait after we got in to go buy some as they worked in the wind again today.
We also fished some artificials under the Inticer as well and caught fish with those too.
I kept 6 for a meal and released the rest. Good fishing!

Captain Rick Reynolds

http://www.thunderboltcharters.com/

Capt. Eric again!

I got out today with my fishing buddy. We did a bit of scouting and ran into quite a variety of fish. The day started with trout, then reds, black drum, sheep head and a few flounder to round out the cooler. The Evolution came in very handy today as we had to throw into a strong South wind. At least it kept the bugs down. Thanks Cork Guys.

Captain Eric Adamski

http://www.georgiasaltwatercharters.com/

Capt. Eric

My fishing buddy and I managed to catch a couple hours of fishing after work and before the sunset. We caught several trout. Most of them were small. We also caught plenty of redfish, all of them were over the slot. We used live shrimp and mud minnows under the EVOLUTION popping corks. The wind was blowing strong from the SE and the water was stained and muddy with the visibility one foot or less at its best. Tight Lines.

Captain Eric Adamski

http://www.georgiasaltwatercharters.com/

Capt. Rick

Capt. Rick scouted today and had a 2 hour site seeing charter today for Miss Judy Charters. The water temp was 68 but stained. The wind was blowing 15- 20 out of the south east. I fished a couple hours before the site seeing trip and got into some nice trout. I decided to keep 7 and return the rest. All were caught on live shrimp and all under the Inticer popping cork. It made casting into the wind much easier.
Guys, these corks work so much better than the traditional poppers! I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it! Thanks again.

Captain Rick Reynolds

http://www.thunderboltcharters.com/