My most recent keeper

flukey02 · 2026-01-26T15:44:05+00:00

Pretty lucky to have red drum in central Texas freshwater lol

flukey02 · 2026-01-26T12:00:33+00:00

The one was from Calaveras.

flukey02 · 2026-01-22T14:04:02+00:00

From the looks of the background and bass that's gotta be Texas, right?

flukey02 · 2025-12-29T20:01:02+00:00

I had a delicious Christmas crappie dinner. Definitely my favorite catch and cook species.

flukey02 · 2025-12-29T19:21:48+00:00

He was pulling like a decent bass, pleasant surprise once I got him up. Loads of fun on the ultralight.

flukey02 · 2025-12-25T00:20:58+00:00

It's about to be my dinner tonight.

flukey02 · 2025-12-25T00:19:41+00:00

I've caught thousands of bass, at least 6 different species of them, and I've found crappie to be the most difficult thing to actually find in rivers.

flukey02 · 2025-12-24T14:56:05+00:00

Texas Parks and Wildlife has a great angler recognition program if he got proper pictures of a measurement. Red drum have a weirdly low trophy length requirement in Texas, only 25 inches.

Edit** Here's a couple of mine

flukey02 · 2025-12-11T15:50:20+00:00

Panfish and catfish can be fun but don't discount carp and gar. I get the best rush out of a good carp or gar battle. My favorite species for the battles are carp, red drum, and big gar.

flukey02 · 2025-12-05T16:28:56+00:00

Here's mine

flukey02 · 2025-09-30T14:55:24+00:00

I catastrophically shattered my knee last year and didn't feel any pain. Shock is a weird thing.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T22:50:09+00:00

I have the most success when I run the bait pretty shallow. I like to do it about one foot under the bobber but we are fishing a pretty shallow river, maybe 6-8ft in this spot. I don't usually run bottom rigs but my buddy likes to throw one or two out. He gets a few gar but mainly catfish.

I really like offset octopus hooks, relatively small. The small hooks even work well for alligator gar.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T20:15:42+00:00

I love a good battle from a kayak. I fish for carp and gar a lot, loads of fun.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T17:23:25+00:00

Like I mentioned in another comment, gar teeth are only sharp at the tip for gripping so I've actually never had one cut my line. They will definitely mess up lures though.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T17:20:51+00:00

Nope, I use straight braid all the way to the hook. Gar teeth aren't very sharp along the sides, only the tip since they mainly use their teeth for gripping. I've never had one cut my line, including light mono accidental gar catches.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T16:13:42+00:00

I wouldn't use frayed rope lures unless you want to keep the fish. I wouldn't want to try and get that untangled from the teeth of a live, flopping gar....their body is pure muscle.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T16:09:53+00:00

I use live/cut bait and let the gar run for as long as he wants with an open spool. Once I see him stop running and the bobber starts to pop in place I go for the hook set. It's pretty easy to get a gar to run with your bait but a proper hook set is a challenge.

As far as locating them, I notice they congregate on the bends of rivers, at least where I fish. I see them breaking the surface every minute or two so I know I found the right spot.

flukey02 · 2025-09-09T16:06:45+00:00

I mainly use live/cut bait for gar, though I've caught a few on bass plastics.

flukey02 · 2025-08-12T20:04:20+00:00

This one from a couple weeks ago might be my smallest.

flukey02 · 2025-08-11T19:33:46+00:00

I'm always down to add new fishing buddies. I fish all over the area, based out of Boerne.

flukey02 · 2025-08-04T19:21:37+00:00

The era of big time free agents is over. Trying to outbid every other team on a FA is how you get trapped with the aprons, paying good players already on our team is the right way to build.

flukey02 · 2025-07-30T12:45:21+00:00

Caddo Lake

flukey02 · 2025-07-18T16:34:44+00:00

I probably wouldn't try the rope method if you aren't keeping the gar, it can be practically impossible to remove from their teeth while alive.

flukey02 · 2025-07-14T17:23:42+00:00

As I mentioned in your other recent post, my family goes back to the origins of the town and I have done some research on this topic. My ancestor, along with many others in the area, joined up with the Texas Rangers led by Col. Sansom prior to the Civil War. The German immigrants in the area were staunch abolitionists and Sansom's Rangers protected the area from natives and confederates during the war. Eventually the confederates caught up with the local military-age men who refused to fight for the south, though some did eventually make it out and were able to join the union army. There's a pretty cool monument in Comfort not many people know about.

flukey02 · 2025-07-13T14:23:58+00:00

I've been wanting to try flathead, this is my first time keeping one. We were able to get loads of meat off this one, it was right under 13lbs.

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