Jay Watkins

Jay Watkins

Pro Tips: July 2009

Amazing things can happen in a month's time. In fact, amazing things can happen almost overnight. Since about January the...

Pro Tips: June 2009

If you have been fishing very much this year along the middle coast you already know that there are two...

Pro Tips: May 2009

At 105 years of age my grandmother, Bertha Prothro, closed her eyes one night last week and awoke in heaven...

Pro Tips: April 2009

What is it about guys, boats and water that sometimes bring out the worst in us? For the life of...

Pro Tips: March 2009

What is it about extremely low tides that makes catching trophy-sized trout so difficult? My answer cites two major influences;...

Pro Tips: February 2009

I hope that all have survived the holiday season and received many blessing from being with friends and family. I...

Pro Tips: January 2009

I hope everyone has been enjoying the holiday season. I take the winter feeding-up pattern to heart so some long...

Winter Strategies

I hope the Christmas spirit has filled you as it has me. I love this time of year, especially the...

Pro Tips: November 2008

I want to begin by telling all the folks that were in the path of Hurricane Ike that my family’s...

Pro Tips: October 2008

Thank goodness October has arrived. It was a terribly hot and mostly dry summer along most of the middle Texas...

Gulf Coast Kitchen

Get all the latest coastal cuisine recipes from guides and authors.

Recipe of the month

Hashbrown Crusted Crab-Spinach-Egg Casserole

Created by Mary Anne Gunn – Many thanks to my dear friend for sharing this wonderful breakfast casserole. Perfect to...

Capt. Gordon’s Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp

Grilled Red Snapper on the Half Shell

Sharilyn and D’Netta’s Crab & Tomato Pie

Zyde’ceaux Joe’s Cajun Seasoned Fish Fry

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