Hey ya'll, greetings from the wet&cold (today) coastal bend. Also known as southern Texas. Today is very unusual being cold & wet, but we had one of those northerners come through, so today's high is only around 60. We have been in the upper 80's most of the time so far. We had a good time last week with visiting family members. We got Mom R. & brother Mark out on the Bay boat to fish. We only caught one keeper which was a trigger fish(pictures below). Never caught one of them before but it was very good eats. Fishing is really off this year so far. Blame it on the warm water temp of 84, or the unusual high tides, 2-4 ft above normal, or the red tide,(algae which blooms) which Peter(me) refers to as the red death. Hopefully fishing will now change as we have had 2 cold fronts come through which kills the red tide and lowers the water temps.


Here is the triggerfish,...

Here is the jaw of the triggerfish...proof that everything in the ocean has teeth!! Once I saw the teeth I knew I had to have them to mount. Mom helped cut them off the fish after Nancy filleted it. Then we boiled it to clean it. It is so amazing to look at the teeth, they look so non fish-like. Even the Doc said so.

Here is a hermit crab we caught in our crab net while crabbing(not fishing) for blue crabs. We did let him go back into the ocean.
Hopefully fishing will improve and we'll have more pictures to share. Stay tuned...
So for now from the coastal bend..blessins' on yer head, and ya'll come back now ya hear!!!
Love ya'll U/P