Fishing in Heavy Winds/Movie in Matagorda

Spring Break started off with 25 mph south winds states Captain Mark Talasek. Monday, Talasek guided an angler and his son in West Matagorda Bay. Live shrimp was used to catch numerous undersized reds during the half-day trip.

The following night the heavy winds brought a high tide making for some excellent floundering. “I took Jeff Gubbles and his three daughters to east bay. The water was clear up to 100 yards and we stuck 10 flatties, missing several more, before heading in.

Wednesday, the wind picked up to 30 mph from the north and the protected sloughs of West Bay were where they boxed five redfish, four flounder, and a drum. Live shrimp beneath a popping cork drew the strikes.

Friday was tough for driftfishing but good quality floundering paid off for his gigging trips in the latter part of the week.

Captain Tommy Alexander provided a report this week. He spent two days drift fishing with clients. Using live shrimp on one of the outings, his clients boxed a nice box of trout with a several reds.

“We fished all day but the bite really turned on at around 2!” It sounds like it was worth the wait for Captain Tommy and his clients.

Pictured in Don Woods’ fishing photo, left to right, are Luke, Matt, and John Brattlof.

The anglers are gripping three of the five trout they caught on a 1/2 day fishing trip in East Matagorda Bay.

“The fish were caught on live shrimp while drifting scattered shell. The water was in terrible shape where I wanted to fish so we were forced to fish where we had ‘half-way decent’ water.”

Captain Tommy Alexander and I ventured to West Bay this week following a cold front. We planned to scout and fish but ended up just scouting for decent water instead. Even deep in the coves the water was chocolate and bayous were low after the north winds expelled much water.

On a better note, I guided founder of Lone Star Outdoor News and photographer, David Sams while he stayed at the lodge as well as Jared Ramey. We motored into West Bay during 30+ mph south winds. Our second stop produced 2-3 limits of redfish each that we released along with a 26 inch trout using all topwater plugs. The trip was world’s different than they expected and we were the only boat in sight.

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Now about the movie in Matagorda…I am not at will to discuss any information concerning the film; however, there was a movie filmed in Matagorda this week. 28 miles of beachfront were closed and the filming of a very high budget film was the biggest buzz of the week.

I attended a casting call and was casted for the movie on Tuesday. Before you ask, pictures were not allowed.

I had a great time. I met Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and was even able to ask Penn if he would like to do any fishing while he was down…unfortunately it was his last night in town.

Capt. Kyle Tomek

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