Capt. Bill's Fish Talk

Fish Talk: August 2012

Dear Friends - It is almost ten years I have been writing here and I want to thank everybody for...

Fish Talk: July 2012

July weather generally includes hot, muggy, steamy days with typical wind direction out of the southeast. If you have any...

Fish Talk: June 2012

June can be a great month for fishing in the Matagorda bays. The weather is not extremely hot but the...

Fish Talk: May 2012

May should be an excellent month to be on the water, with fishing patterns similar to April, hopefully with maybe...

Fish Talk: April 2012

Even though some of us really diehard (or maybe it's hardheaded) fishermen keep our lines intermittently wet during the winter...

Fish Talk: March 2012

Our 2012 fishing season started out with a bang! January was a great month with a lot of 3-5 lb...

Fish Talk: February 2012

February is known as a great month for big trout up and down our Texas coast. It also has the...

Fish Talk: January 2012

This is the time of year to reflect on all that has happened in the preceding twelve months and then...

Fish Talk: December 2011

Wow - can you believe December has crept up on us already? It seems like this year just flew by....

Fish Talk: November 2011

I have always kept detailed fishing logs and my normal practice is to pull them out every couple of months...

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