Team Uno Mas competed against some 200 others boats and some 800 fishermen including guides from the area.
On Friday Michael Middleton, my son from Halletsville, Texas, and Brandon Paul, a friend from Huffman, Texas left Port Isabel at six and headed North. We fished a number of spots on that pre-tournament day including "58", "44", the humps, and a few other choice spots. We managed a three man limit of trout, but no reds or flounder.
That night we discussed our course of action for Saturday. We had been joined by our fourth team member, Casey Morris from the San Antonio area, and decided to be at "44" prior to starting time which was six. We arrived well before daylight and were chunking topwaters before light. Two of our best reds hit at about ten minutes after six. I took a 24.5 and Michael secured a 24.
As it began to get light we were greeted by a large flotilla, as fishermen began descending on all parts of the LLM. If we had not hit our spot early and spread out on the flats we would have had lots of visitors. When we all returned to the boat at around nine, we had 2 keeper reds and three trout. A fair start but a long way to go for weight in fish.
We headed West toward what I call Glenn's Bar and began a total coverage of all four sides of this bar. It lies out in the very middle of the bay and is hard to locate, but local guides fish croaker here. a
We started out with topwaters, but quickly switched to plastics and a Gulp like bait known as Excite-a-Bite.
For the next several hours we put several 20"trout and two good flounders in the cooler. Michael took a 20" flounder that was the third best in the tournament.
The trout were down deep and in deep water. They were simply taking the baits without very much action. The technique was to wait until the bait stopped, almost like a snag, and strike hard. It reminded me of fishing for bass with worms.
We ended our day with three reds, fourteen trout, and two flounder. We headed for Louie's Backyard at around one thirty, knowing that we still had about another hour to fish, but we were tired and decided to go and weight in.
The people who put this tournament on are top notch and those that run other tournaments could take lessons from the young ladies who run the show.
TEAM UNO MAS
Casey Morris Brandon Paul Glenn "Pop" Lemke Michael Middleton
Thank you.
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