November 21, 2008
Pictured from left to right are Dr. Frank Rickman and wife Yvonne, Laura and Dr. Mike Sweeney with 15 speckled trout and 1 flounder caught in The Colorado River. All fish were caught on Shrimp Tails on 3/8oz. lead heads. Dr. Sweeney caught the flounder. Several more border line fish were caught and released. We had planned on wade fishing West Bay, but the front caused us to change our plans. It was Yvonne's birthday so we let her catch some of the trout. The ladies did good.

October 30, 2008
Pictured Left to Right are Hobart Burton of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tom Frye of Spring, Texas, Larry McClure of Aledo, Texas and Gary Rippetoe of Shreveport, LA with 17 specks, 4 reds, and 16 sand trout caught in East Matagorda Bay fishing with Capt. Don Wood. The fish were caught on soft plastics drifting scattered shell and working birds. We also fished the day before and only managed 10 good keeper specks fishing the Colorado River. We were throwing soft plastics that day also.

October 28, 2008
Left to Right are Melvin Lee & Phil Fouche with a mixture of 26 specks and sand trout caught in East Bay and the Colorado River fishing with Capt. Don Wood. The fish were caught on live bait and soft plastics.

October 20, 2008
Pictured from left to right are Lincoln Elrod of Stephenville, Texas and Bill Judy of Boise, Idaho with 9 specks to 28", 2 reds, and 16 sand trout. The fish were caught in East Matagorda Bay drifting scattered shell and throwing soft plastics. Lincoln Elrod caught the 25" trout.

October 3, 2008
Brad Cesak of The Woodlands with a limit of trout caught in East Matagorda Bay fishing with Capt. Don Wood. The fish were caught wading the south shoreline throwing Bone Diamond RT Slugs and Top-Waters. Most of the fish were caught on the soft plastics. The fish were 16" to 26".

September 26, 2008
Left to right are George Huntoon of Katy and Bryant Fitts of Houston with a stringer of the (Big Three) caught wading in East Matagorda Bay with Capt. Don Wood. The stringer would have had more fish on it, but George's Do-Net developed a hole somehow and only had one fish left in it when we returned to the boat. We didn't get to make a full day because George had pending business so we returned to the Harbor at noon, so he could make his appointment. The fish were caught on RT Slugs (Exude) in bone diamond and morning glory.

August 2, 2008
Pictured Left to Right are Joseph McAfee, Brandon Jendrusch, and John Oliver with 20 specks and 2 reds. The guys also caught 12 sand trout, 1 nice drum and 1 croaker. The fish were caught on live shrimp drifting over scattered shell in East Matagorda Bay fishing with Capt. Don Wood. Joseph McAfee is pictured with a 29" red that he tagged.

July 18, 2008
Pictured with a 24 1/4" Speckled Trout is Yyonne Rickman. She caught the fish on a Top-Water(She Dog) fishing with Capt. Don Wood. We had 9 more Trout that were from 17" to 24". Only one fish was caught on soft plastic. The rest were caught on Top-Waters. We also caught and released 3 keeper Reds. The fish were caught drifting in East Matagorda Bay.

July 12, 2008
We had a group of 23 men from the Gatesville, TX area fish with 7 guides.  Ken Marshall had put the trip together.  Pictured are most of the group with the fish that were caught in East Matagorda Bay. Pictured with his 29 1/2" Red that he tagged, is Calvin Williams.  He caught the fish on a live shrimp while fishing with Capt. Don Wood.

July 4, 2008
Dr. Frank Rickman and wife Yvonne with a 30 1/2" Red that she caught on a top-water bait.  She also caught 2 nice trout on the same bait before a bad wind and rain storm ran us off the bay.  We were fishing West Matagorda Bay.

June 15, 2008
Left to Right are Randall Hicks of El Maton, J.P. Hansen of Bryan, and Andy Shelby of Itasca, TX with 18 specks and 1- 22" red fish caught in East Matagorda Bay fishing with Capt. Don Wood. They also caught 7 sand trout and 10 croakers. The fish were caught on live shrimp and Gulps (shrimp tails) with most of the fish being caught on the Gulps fished under popping corks.

Greg Hunt with 28" Red fish.

Left to Right are Leonard Maxedon, his father Wendell, and Greg Hunt of Willis, TX

Leonard Maxedon with 2 Trout

June 12, 2008
Pictured Left to Right are Leonard Maxedon, his father Wendell, and Greg Hunt of Willis, TX with 4 Reds, 4 Trout, and 1 Flounder caught on live shrimp fishing the Colorado River with Capt. Don Wood. Greg is pictured with a 28" Red that he caught. The Red weighed a little over 9 lbs. on a Boga Grip. The group also caught several under-size Trout and border line Reds. They were also kept busy catching some large Lady fish A.K.A. poor-man Tarpon. One four foot Black Tip Shark was hooked and fought briefly; made 2 jumps and stripped line before cutting the leader. It was another windy day.

June 2, 2008
Drift fishing with live shrimp in East Matagorda Bay produced 11 nice trout for John Kloss, Jay Hamel, Mark Hillman, and Vic Vitanza fishing with Capt. Don Wood. The fish were 15 1/2" to 25". They also caught many trout that were short on one end. We had to cut our trip short because Vic became sick from something he ate the night before.

May 20, 2008
Chuck Newcomb, Russell Morgan, Mike Skronek, and Capt. Don Wood waded West Matagorda Bay. We had 6 keeper trout and many undersized trout and reds. I had several nice fish at hand, but they refused to be put on the stringer. Chuck is pictured with a 45" Black Drum caught on a soft plastic bait, which we released after measuring and taking a picture.

April 24, 2008
Pictured Left to Right with 10 trout and 1 red are Carl Strauss, Scott Oakes, Jim Greathouse, and Carl Metzroth. The fish were caught on live shrimp drifting in East Matagorda Bay fishing with Capt. Don Wood. Carl Strauss caught the largest trout which measured just under 25" and Carl Metzroth caught the 26" red. It was very windy and had the water off color, but we fought the elements until about 2 p.m. and the guys said they were ready, so we headed to the Harbor to clean fish and get out of the wind.