Monday -- drive from B/CS to SPI. Fish Tuesday (on the new boat?) from launch at Jim's Pier. Travel home Wednesday.

Waiting for the snook pictures.

That new 25’ Shallow Sport is slick-Love me some Snookin’

I'd love to hear how your trip went. I fish down there several times a year, still hoping to catch a snook. Where'd you fish? How was the guide? IslandJim, in Rockport

Need summary and pics!

32 inches 11 pounds. Thanks for the recommend last year (all of y'all!) Pre-dawn launch off 48 west of Port Isabel. Cast netted large mullet live under float free-spooled in current from Monday rain. Only one landed but Pamela and I fished hard eight hours. Captain Brian is a consummate pro! Lots of other species -- ladyfish, mangrove snapper, barracuda (??!!) including a jack crevalle I trolled up on jighead and Texas Croaker pattern DOA lure.

Thanks, BNagel. A snook like that is the last thing on my bucket list! If I wasn't an old geezer, living on Sociable Security, I'd be down there fishing with Brian. I've fished the Brownsville Ship Channel many times in my skiff, but have never found the snook. Someday.........IslandJim

Those are some pissed off fish when hooked. Bet that was a battle, well done!

Before 7 a.m. alongside a recently installed dredging pipe (with prop marks and other snaggable features!!) Had to "horse" her over that as part of the fight. Without someone who fishes the area 300 days a year, his new boat and twenty years' local experience, it would not have happened for me. Snook like ambush conditions, dirty water (fresh end of saltwater, salty end of freshwater flow). Ladyfish feeding and mullet reacting were all I saw on top. We fished other spots, too, and saw a few juvenile tarpon "rolling." We plan to go again some time, focusing on other species first. Snook package is intensive on the ship channel, at least this time of year. Hope I haven't given away any of Captain Brian's secrets!!

Awesome report

Brian is awesome. We get to fish together every once in a while. It’s always a blast. I do all of his electronics installs on his boats. The X3 is huge! My new 24mod V is going to be setup up pretty similar to his boat. I havnt not picked up the raptors yet but I have all the other stuff.

Thanks !

A week after we went, Captain Brian's pics (on FB) from a lucky couple on the snook package have us drooling for a fall trip.
By us, I mean Pamela, who does NOT like missing out. I get to catch up with her sometimes!

Grats and thanks for sharing-it brings back memories. Grew up fishing for snook is south florida as a kid many years ago. My biggest was a 36 pounder. I always said I would go down and hit the channels /mangroves just to catch another. One of these days....

Nice fish.

thats the size snook that will burn some drag.. great picture!

Gonna try again, but for bay side species in early November at SPI. Thanks for the imgur-fu! (Posted another one at freshwater discussions, FWIW.)

yep, the mention of snook does bring back memories... had moved to south florida in the 80s, found an apartment three blocks from Anglin Pier, in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Realized the first day fishing the pier and getting busted off quick a few times that I needed to beef up.. guys were landing 20 lbs fish regularly that day.. 27 was the biggest weighed. Some of the pier pros were using 80 lb straight mono and free lining huge live mullet. These guys were meat hunters, it wasnt the fight, it was the eating.

Respooled line from 15 to 50 mono on a Abu 1500C... almost destroyed the spool.. had a garcia 300 spinning rod that I had landed big pike on up in Canada... didnt work off the pier.. ended up walking across the street around noon and buying a Shimano 4500 BaitRunner and 7 heavy spinning rod.. It wasnt enough either for the snook that were coming through that day, but became my go to rig for fish up to 15 lbs. off pier..



Everglades Snook from a year or so ago.

Second trip coming up. Bay side methinks. Hoping for topwater action with Z-Spook or Skinny Lipper lures.

https://imgur.com/a/qp5SJqU

Black drum (9), speckled trout (1) and golden croaker (10) kept. Ten more under-sized released along with ladyfish, gafftopsail catfish, etc.
Drift fishing Cullen Bay, drop shotting South Bay on outgoing tide, with fresh shrimp and Fish Bites. Captain Brian delivers!!!

Looks like a nice day of fishing. Nice fish.