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CURRENT FISHING REPORT:
April 29, 2010

The fishing has turned on with trout green water in all our bays. A stray northern here and there may mix it up a bit but then that can be a good thing when the trout are migrating from the gulf to our bays this time of year.

Good catches of trout from Mud Island to Traylor Island are showing up there and also along the cuts from Dagger Isle - Redfish Bay through the ICW into Estes Flats. Dagger Isle and behind Islands 1 – 4 in Redfish Bay have been paying off for some power boat guides who know how to navigate that area and kayakers. Best action in Corpus Christi Bay, East Flats and Redfish Bay has been early morning or on a strong outgoing tide. Think Chartreuse ! Redfish have been working grass lines and outgoing tides.

The bays up north have held scattered trout action on the reefs in Mesquite, Carlos and San Antonio Bay with some easy limits when you find the right reef. Good numbers of Black Drum and Redfish working the Matagorda shoreline on the northern bays.

Here is a 22” Spanish mackerel, a 26” redfish and a limit of trout, with 9 of the trout over 20”, caught last week wade fishing – no boat - the guts and flats around Redfish Bay using the Original 1/8 oz. Chartreuse/RedEye RR rattling jig,  rigged with a plum/chartreuse soft plastic.

Coming into the pre-Full Moon phase this last week in April and into May will have the larger trout showing up so the trout fishing should be primed for the next week or so.

“Remember,… Fishing in fun,
But Catching is more FUN !!!”
Capt. Rex
RR Pro Staff

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"Jim Tesch and RR Win 1st Place.. again !!"

Rockport Rattler and Jim Tesch team up to win 1st Place again!!

Using his trusty, tried and true Black/GoldEye 1/8 oz. RR Jig with one of his favorite soft plastics Jim won the 2010 IFA Kayak Division Tourney April   17, 2010.

Jim, center on the podium, is no stranger to a 1st place finish using our products.

http://www.ifakayakfishingtour.com/tournaments/2010/port_lavaca_2010.html

Jim has become a regular on the podium for winning or placing at various Kayak Tournaments over the past four years and here he is again at the winners circle at the Third Coast Kayak Fishing Tourney Kayak Tourney April 18, 2009 Freeport/Lake Jackson where he had 1st Place Stringer, and that takes a Texas Grand Slam, which a Trout, Flounder, and Redfish on your stringer. Better have a lure that can catch all three fish and Longest stringer WINS !!

http://www.thirdcoastkayakfishingseries.com/tournament/2009/Freeport.htm

Better have a lure that can catch all three fish when fishing for a Texas Slam and Longest stringer WINS !!

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New Products Coming Soon

While the Original Rockport Rattler™ series was developed for the ability to change soft plastics with out tearing them up from lead prongs jigs or screwlock jigs therefore giving an angler more mileage from his soft plastics.

 The QuickLock Series was developed for the real soft, soft plastics like the SW Bass Assassin and Gulp!. In fact, the scent from Gulp! soft plastics combined with the sound of the Rockport Rattler™ along with it’s  light reflecting eyes can be a lethal combination, and also rig well on the XMAX under a popping cork or free lined. The Rockport Rattler™ QuickLock is adjustable "up" or "down" for thick or thin soft plastics or to get a new grip on the same soft plastic.

The new PINK Rockport Rattler™ series Rockport Rattler™ jigs are for use in the Surf or during the heavy migration of shrimp in the bays or as a good wintertime color.

The new CroakerMAX is the first rattling hook we have developed for the live and dead bait anglers.

Fin fish can’t hide from the predators with a CroakerMax rattling hook on their tail.

When the croaker, mullet, piggie perch, pin fish, etc. swim they automatically send out a rattling sound with the CroakerMAX attached to their tail. Furthermore, croaker anglers can get more mileage out of their expensive croakers as it can give sound to lethargic or recently dead croaker.

Live shrimp and/or dead bait anglers can use the CroakerMax to send out some sound with that scent since sound travels faster in water than scent from bait.

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You may even win $25.00 worth of Rockport Rattlers™.

Send us your favorite Fish Tales Photos while fishing with the ™ and you may find your tale here. Email us at fishtalephoto@rockportrattler.com.

If your photo is selected as the winner in our Fish Tale of the Month, you will receive $25.00 worth of Rockport Rattlers™.

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Why does the ™ WORK

 

Fish depend on sound for survival and to spawn.

Sound is used for general communication between fish and during the mating season to locate a mate.

Male spotted sea trout aggregate in a suitable spawning habitat and attract ripe females by making drumming sounds. Female trout do not possess this “drumming” characteristic.

Red drum make loud, characteristic croaking sounds during spawning. Listening for the characteristic sound production has recently been used to locate red drum spawning sites in Indian River Lagoon, Florida (Johnson and Funicelli 1991), and in Plamico Sound, North Carolina (Luczkovich et al. 1999), Cedar Bayou, Texas and Pass Cavallo, Texas. These surveys have been done with both hand-held hydrophones and remotely placed sonobuoys. Red drum produce characteristic spawning sounds. It is clear that surveying sound production during spawning was an effective means of locating red drum spawning sites.

Trout, Redfish, Flounder and all game fish have ears – they are called otoliths.

One of the most valuable pieces of data to scientist in their studies of fish is the ear stones or otoliths. Similar to rings on tree stumps, the rings on a fish’s ear bones are used to determine the age of the fish.

Otoliths can also be subject to other microbiological testing that may give biologists an indication into the fish’s diet, habitat and genetics.

The Rockport Rattler™ acts like a dinner bell in that it can go subsurface into all depths of the water column and into the natural habitat, sanctuaries and ambush points of game fish and using its loud amplified rattling sound the Rockport Rattler™ can call in feeding or spawning game fish in both saltwater and freshwater.

Besides the rattle sound in the Rockport Rattler jig it's also the light reflecting red eyes on the RR that make the RR so effective.

In the June 2006 Edition of the Gulf Coast Connections fishing magazine on page 16, Bink Grimes wrote:

"A shrimps eyes are it's demise; a glowing target for glutton snook, redfish, trout and tarpon to eat.

Ask your local bait camp operator to let you see the live shrimp in their tank at night. Notice their eyes gleam in the darkness and reflect when hit by light."

It's no secret that gamefish eat their prey head first so the light reflecting eyes give the trout n' reds a "bulls eye" to target.