Mike McBride
Mike "McTrout"McBride is a full time guide with Skinny Water Adventures in Port Mansfield, TX. Winner Rockport Amateur Troutmasters, Galveston Pro Troutmasters, and back to back Galveston's Best of the Best Plugger with Mark Holt.
A regular contributor to Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine, Mike worked closely with Everett & Pam Johnson of GCC as Associate Editor as well as contributing monthly feature articles.
Even to this day I can still feel that freezing drizzle from more than twenty-five years ago. Standing there in...
Dolly All Over Again?
By Mike McBride
We looked across the bay in silent awe. Here yet again lay frightening confirmation that Mother Nature always rules. Seemingly...
Data We Can Believe In
By Mike McBride
Apart from largemouth bass, there may be no finned species that has fueled more theory and so-called expert opinion than...
Summertime Fishing Is What It Is!
By Mike McBride
The guys were trotting to the dock precisely at 0530 and I was encouraged to see such enthusiasm. However, as...
Practical Views of Tackle and Gear
By Mike McBride
As a young kid growing up, my ranch-raised mother encouraged me to read sensible things in order that I might...
Think Little Catch Big
By Mike McBride
As we are reminded often, just as soon as things change... things change again. Thankfully, my brown tide story of...
Tales from the Brown Lagoon
By Mike McBride
W.C. Fields once said, "You can't trust the water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."Well, we all might...
Back to Basics
By Mike McBride
Someone once said, "Because things are the way they are, things will never stay the way they are."I guess fishing,...
Plugging for Science
By Mike McBride
We awoke this past Monday morning to an oppressive blanket of fog, dense enough to smother any hopes for launching...
New Decade - Same Fish
By Mike McBride
No sound can drive me into fetal position quicker these days than that of a magazine deadline whooshing by. Our...
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