After seeing this at Fairfield:





We test out Tradinghouse lake:




& wake up at 6:30AM below the Whitney dam.


Made a call to Dick's & get some directions then hit the peddle to the metal. Brazos or BUST!


Salsa gears up (Team Jacob style)


Cdawg chunkin & awinding a topwater torpedo


Gettin re-acquainted. She's still as beautiful as I remember!


Breakfast of Champions

Salsa promised to bring the pain & didn't disappoint!
The 1st of many...


Team Jacob Stikes again & again...


Cdawg decides to steps up his game & brings THUNDER with him!


What tha #@$&? Confederates? Deliverance?


Calm down SwampThing! It's only an airboat & they're just rednecks!


Salsa & Cdawg have 4-5 each before I finally reel this green thing in.
Had 3 nice size gar on but lost them all at the boat. One bounced off the front of my ride:~o


I find another willing green fish.


This is what we came for! RIVERCATS!!!
They liked our Shrimp:~)


mmm!

4 O'clock! So many fish... So little time...


Cdawg & Salsa both put the hurt on them Bass w/ their topwaters!


Was another great time on the water. Too bad we ran out of time again salsa says he has some video to show.
tick tock tick tock

Zombie does not TALK fishing......Zombie IS fishing!!

Great pics and lots of fun!!

Good stuff FZ!
I saw that same Stars and Bars air boat when I was down there last August.
I'm dying to get back to the section below PK. It's been running about 250-300 cfs for quite awhile now, nice level for that stretch. Hope to go in the Fall when the leaves are turning and the deer are moving around.

Nice report and great pics. Thanks of sharing.

Very cool, Zombie. Wish I could have gone. But instead, I used some reasonable judgement and took my wife out for our anniversary....LOL....next time, though, I'm there.

Hey, speaking of the Brazos, did Salsa tell you about the promise of the Upper Brazos? We'll have to hit it soon...

Pretty soon the weather is goign to start being really nice! I need to get out to the Brazos soon

nice
what was your breakfast? is that cactus tops

RT how does October sound

October sounds good. Better than good.

Thanks dudes!

I'd welcome the opportunity to meet some more of ya'll. Please, let me know if you do the Brazos. I want some more of those river cats & big gar.

Butch,
Those are freshly picked Cactus Fruit.

BRod,
Wise decisions. Keep her happy. You'll get to fish a lot more if you do. Your welcome to come out and play with us anytime.

I think those cactus fruits are called tunas.
Really.

maybe thats why i like em so!

sabroso! translation: A word to describe something that is very good. Literally translated it means tasty.

Hey Zombie,
How you gettin those tunas down? You peelin em. Or, are you burning the thorns off?

no dry lighter on me. cut most of them off when i peeled em with my knife. but some of them ended up in my hand.

O.K. Well I grew up around the cattle business in South Texas, where they burn pear, when they run out of grass. They hit the cactus with homemade flame-thrower and burn the thorns off. Then the cows come through and eat it. We have picked tunas and rotated them over the gas range to burn the thorns off. It's been over 5 years since I did it last. But it seemed to work. Not sure if you could do it with a lighter. Anyway, how do you like all the seeds? And I would think that eatin more than 2 or 3 of those bad boys would "set you loose."

a lighter works fine. i cant stop with just one. might have a little bovine in me because i eat the seeds too. that goes the same w/ watermelons. haven't experience a disturbance in the force yet with prickly pears. maybe my gift in life. when i get older my iron gut might soften up. onions, cucumbers, cabbage, plums, prunes, green beans, BEANS, they all go down well in large quantities.

Well then, may the force continue to be with you, and not against you.

Zombie and B Rod,
I must compliment you on your command of the English Language. Well put, in both cases.